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What is Clinical Psychology?

What is Clinical Psychology?. An Introduction. APA Division of Clinical Psychology.

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What is Clinical Psychology?

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  1. What is Clinical Psychology? An Introduction

  2. APA Division of Clinical Psychology “ The field of Clinical Psychology involves research, teaching, and services relevant to the applications of principles, methods, and processes for understanding, predicting, and alleviating intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social and behavioral maladjustments, disability, and discomfort, applied to a wide range of client populations”

  3. A Subfield of Psychology • Like all psychologists, clinical psychologists are • Interested in the science of human behavior • Interested in the science of mental processes • Interested in applying research to solving human problems or improving human welfare • Unlike other psychologists • Interested primarily in human behavior and mental processes • Interested primarily in the science and application of psychology to solving mental health problems that humans • Develop • Inherit • Learn • Design

  4. Based on Research • Like all psychologists, clinical psychologists conduct research on behavior and mental processes • Like all psychologists, clinical psychologists are concerned with applying research to improving human welfare • Like some other psychologists, mainly study people • may study animals when research or ethical considerations rule out humans

  5. Involved in Assessment/Measurement • Like personality and industrial/organizational psychologists, clinical psychologists are involved in • Assessing and measuring • Abilities • Characteristics • Gathering data • Analyzing • Interpreting • Supporting observations • Frequently using assessments to understand one person

  6. Efforts to Help People Who are Psychologically Distressed • Like many other helping professionals • Psychiatrists • Social workers • Family physicians • Counselors • Nurses • Educators • Clergy

  7. So what distinguishes clinical psychology? • Not the activities they engage in • Combining • Knowledge gained from research on human behavior and mental processes • Efforts at individual assessment • To understand and help a particular person

  8. Key distinctions • Use of science and theory to guide specific interventions for people experiencing problems or disorders • How general psychological principles shape • Lives • Problems • Treatments • Treatment based on research and assessment

  9. An example • A man comes to a mental hospital claiming that space aliens have stolen his thoughts. Through what lens will he be perceived by • Experimental Psychologist • Psychiatrist • Clinical psychologist

  10. Activities of licensed psychologists • Amount of time spent in different activities depends on work setting • Assessment (5% - 23%) • Treatment (18%-61%) • Research (1%-15%) • Teaching (5%-40%) • Consultation (5%-7%) • Administration (4%-20%)

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