Introduction to Clinical Psychology
What is clinical psychology?
- A subfield of the large discipline of psychology
- Conduct research on behavior and mental processes
- Involvement in the assessment or measurement of the abilities and characteristics of individual human beings
- Effort to help people who are psychologically distressed
- Clinical attitude or clinical approach
The Activities of clinical psychologist
- Assessment
- Treatment
- Research
- Teaching
- Consultation
- Administration
- Distribution of clinical activities
- Clients and their problems
- Employment settings and salaries or clinical psychologists
- Socio – cultural diversity among clinical psychologist
The Roots of clinical Psychology
- The research tradition in psychology
- Attention to individual differences
- Changing conceptions of behavior disorder Read the rest of this entry »
