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Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
At the Boulder Conference of 1949, this model of training for clinical graduate programs was proposed. Here, it received accreditation by the psychological community and the American Psychological Association. [2] The goal of the scientist–practitioner model is to increase scientific growth within clinical psychology in the United States.
The society first appeared in the American Psychological Association as a section under the division of clinical psychology (Division 12) in 1962. [2] As research in child development and behavior analysis progressed, the need for specialized training for clinical psychology students became more urgent. [3]
Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering clinical psychology. It was established in 1994 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association , of which it is the official journal.
Clinical behavior analysis (CBA; also called clinical behaviour analysis or third-generation behavior therapy) is the clinical application of behavior analysis (ABA). [1] CBA represents a movement in behavior therapy away from methodological behaviorism and back toward radical behaviorism and the use of functional analytic models of verbal behavior—particularly, relational frame theory (RFT).
Supportive psychotherapy functions with the objective of reducing anxiety and maintaining a positive patient-therapist relationship with minimal focus on transference. [7] While this practice of therapy is seldom studied, it has since been identified and functions as an alternative to expressive therapy.
He was the director of Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program in clinical health psychology, VA Connecticut Healthcare System from 2002 to 2007. Kerns served as the inaugural national program director for pain management, VA Central Office from 2005 to 2013 and as founding director of Pain Research, Informatics, Multi-morbidities, and ...
Pain psychology; Paradox psychology; Pediatric psychology; Practitioner–scholar model; Prescriptive authority for psychologists movement; Primary care psychologist; Professional practice of behavior analysis; Psychological testing; Psychotraumatology