Branches of Psychology
Clinical Psychology
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The branch of psychology that integrates science, theory and practice to understand, predict and alleviate maladjustment, disability and discomfort, working directly with people experiencing psychological distress or mental illness through assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
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Central QuestionHow can psychological science be used to understand, diagnose and relieve psychological distress and mental illness in real patients? 1 Key DebateWhether clinical training should center on the PhD scientist-practitioner model, which integrates research and practice, or the PsyD practitioner-scholar model, which emphasizes clinical theory and direct application, an ongoing tension between research rigor and everyday clinical usefulness. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Positive psychology emerged in reaction to clinical psychology's historic focus on pathology and treatment, and much of its early research base was clinical.
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1. Wikipedia: Clinical psychology
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Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge aimed at understanding, preventing, and relieving psychological distress or dysfunction as well as promoting well-being and personal growth.
1. Wikipedia: Clinical psychology
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The PhD science-practitioner model (integrating scientific research and practice), and the PsyD practitioner-scholar model (focusing on clinical theory and practice).
Simply Psychology, Branches of Psychology
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integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort
Simply Psychology, Branches of Psychology
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It is a branch of psychology focusing on understanding mental illness and looking for the best ways of providing care for individuals, families, and groups.
Wikipedia: Positive Psychology
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It is a reaction against past practices that tended to focus on mental illness and emphasized maladaptive behavior and negative thinking.
Wikipedia: Existential Therapy
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Existential therapy is a form of psychotherapy focused on the client's lived experience of their subjective reality.
Wikipedia: Melanie Klein
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Fields Psychoanalysis
Wikipedia: Ronald Fairbairn
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School Psychoanalysis
Wikipedia: Donald Winnicott
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was an English paediatrician and psychoanalyst
Wikipedia: Object Relations Theory
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Object relations theory is a school of thought in psychoanalytic theory and psychoanalysis centered around theories of stages of ego development.
Wikipedia: David Rosenhan
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He is known best for the Rosenhan experiment, a study challenging the validity of psychiatry diagnoses.
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