| Description |
xxi, 472 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Being a clinical psychologist -- Becoming a clinical psychologist -- Methods for research and evaluation -- Ethical decision-making -- The nature of psychopathology -- Overview of assessment -- Psychodiagnostic assessment -- Cognitive and neuropsychological assessment -- Behavioral and biological assessment -- The process of psychotherapy -- Psychotherapies I -- Psychotherapies II -- Psychotherapy outcome -- Innovative/mystical therapies -- Child clinical psychology -- Forensic psychology -- Health psychology and behavioral medicine -- Psychopharmacology -- Current trends and the future of clinical psychology |
| Summary |
Clinical Psychology, A modern Health Profession, introduces students to Clinical Psychology by portraying the field as a health profession that uses cognition, emotion and somatic principles to help understand, assess and modify health showcasing the field in its reality. The authors approached the task as beginning with an appreciation for the problems that the profession needs to solve which makes it easy to relate to them as 'real' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Clinical psychologists.
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Clinical psychology.
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Psychotherapy.
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Psychology, Clinical.
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Career Choice.
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| Author |
Hewitt, Paul L. (Paul Louis)
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| LC no. |
2010054084 |
| ISBN |
9780132397278 |
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