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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.
A clinical formulation, also known as case formulation and problem formulation, is a theoretically-based explanation or conceptualisation of the information obtained from a clinical assessment. It offers a hypothesis about the cause and nature of the presenting problems and is considered an adjunct or alternative approach to the more ...
Clinical neuropsychology is a specialized form of clinical psychology [2] with stringent laws in place to maintain evidence as a focal point of treatment and research within the field. [2] The assessment and rehabilitation of neuropsychopathologies is the focus for a clinical neuropsychologist. [ 2 ]
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).
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]
In psychology case studies are most often used in clinical research to describe rare events and conditions, which contradict well established principles in the field of psychology. [1] Case studies are generally a single-case design, but can also be a multiple-case design, where replication instead of sampling is the criterion for inclusion. [2]
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.