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psychology
psychology science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment. Psychologists study processes of sense perception , thinking, learning , cognition, emotions and motivations , personality , abnormal behavior, interactions b... Read more
Oliver Wolf Sacks
Oliver Wolf Sacks 1933-, British neurologist and author, b. London, educated at Oxford. In 1960 he moved to the United States, where he continued his medical training. He began an association with Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in 1965, later becoming a professor of neurology ... Read more
Edward Bradford Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener , 1867-1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he... Read more
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung , 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology. The son of a country pastor, he studied at Basel (1895-1900) and Zürich (M.D., 1902). After a stint at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich, Jung worked (1902) under Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli... Read more
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd 1842-1921, American philosopher, b. Painesville, Ohio, grad. Western Reserve Univ., 1864, and Andover Theological Seminary, 1869. He taught at Yale from 1881 until his retirement in 1906. Influenced by Hermann Lotze, he worked primarily in experimental psychology and founded th... Read more
Granville Stanley Hall
Granville Stanley Hall 1844-1924, American psychologist and educator, b. Ashfield, Mass., grad. Williams, 1867. G. Stanley Hall taught at Antioch and Harvard, studied experimental psychology in Germany, and in 1882 organized at Johns Hopkins a psychological laboratory that rapidly took a leading po... Read more
Kurt Lewin
Kurt Lewin , 1890-1947, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1914. He taught at the Univ. of Berlin before coming to the United States in 1932. He was professor (1935-44) of child psychology at the Univ. of Iowa and director (from 1944) of the research center for group dynamics ... Read more
psychiatry
psychiatry , branch of medicine that concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression , schizophrenia , and anxiety . Although the Greeks recognized the significance of emotions in mental disorders, medieval thought emphasized demonic... Read more
Edward Lee Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike , 1874-1949, American educator and psychologist, b. Williamsburg, Mass., grad. Wesleyan Univ., 1895, and Harvard, 1896, Ph.D. Columbia, 1898. Appointed instructor in genetic psychology at Teachers College, Columbia, in 1899, he served there until 1940 (as professor from 1904 and... Read more
Rorschach Test
RORSCHACH TEST Rorschach The ink-blot test devised to study personality and diagnose psychopathologic conditions was introduced in 1921 by Hermann Rorschach. Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist, created the test as a series of ten symmetrical ink spots that a patient would be asked to interpret. Al... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "clinical psychology"

clinical psychology
Book article from: World Encyclopedia clinical psychology Field of psychology concerned with diagnosis and treatment of behavioural disorders. Clinical psychologists are engaged in diagnosis...therapy and other forms of psychotherapy. Clinical psychologists may work with psychiatrists... Read more
Community Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY Community psychology (CP), as a discipline...CP to be distinct from clinical psychology and community mental health...being a discipline within psychology that examines ecological...medical model used in clinical psychology that focuses on illness... Read more
Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying ...experience, held center stage in psychology until the events of World...the wake of World War II, psychology turned its attention to...behavior. In this context, psychology's first organized approach...to Behavior," chaired by clinical psychologist Herman Feifel...students in developmental, ... Read more
psychology
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body psychology The word ‘psychology’, from the Greek psyche , meaning...or soul, describes an academic and clinical subject concerned with reason and emotion...intellectually respectable is experimental psychology , concerned especially with learning...Although the scientific aspects of ... Read more
Psychologist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...posed by everyday life. It includes clinical psychology, the largest single field in psychology. Clinical psychologists — accounting...settings, studying carious aspects of psychology. Like clinical psychologists, counseling psychologists... Read more
Neuropsychological testing
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Neuropsychological testing Definition Clinical neuropsychology is a field with historical origins in both psychology and neurology. The primary activity...localization of brain dysfunction, clinical neuropsychologists found new uses... Read more
Healy, William (1869 – 1963)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...interpretative framework of psychology to the juvenile justice system...structure for the practice of clinical child psychiatry and psychology, and with popularizing psychological...influenced by the adolescent psychology of G. Stanley Hall, the preventive...validity to the mother-blaming ... Read more
Vygotsky, L. S. (1896 – 1934)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...Shakespeare's Hamlet. In 1917 he returned to Gomel as a teacher and also practiced clinical psychology. Here he wrote Educational Psychology and his dissertation, The Psychology of Art. In 1924, at a congress in Leningrad, Vygotsky presented a talk on... Read more
Rollo May
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...minister, May received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Columbia Univ. in 1949, and introduced to American psychology the views of the European existentialists...pioneer of the humanistic school of psychology, his work focused on the positive... Read more
Sigmund Freud
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of a modern, dynamic psychology by providing the first...neuropathologist, and clinical neurologist, and in his...modern theory of human psychology and a major tool of research...medicine rather than clinical practice. He spent 7... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "clinical psychology"

clinical sociology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology clinical sociology A term, analogous to clinical psychology, introduced in 1931 by Chicago...of sociologists employed in clinical settings alongside social workers...psychologists, and psychiatrists. Clinical sociology involves the use... Read more
DCP
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations DCP Diploma in Conservation of Paintings • Diploma in Clinical Pathology • Diploma of Clinical Psychology • Physics direct-current plasma Read more
MClinPsychol
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations MClinPsychol Master of Clinical Psychology Read more
Lester, Richard
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...January 1932. Education: William Penn Charter School, Germanstown, Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Clinical Psychology, 1951. Family: Married dancer and choreographer Deirdre Vivian Smith, 1956, one son, one daughter. Career: Music... Read more
projective techniques
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management ...asking them to project these feelings into an unstructured situation. This technique, which has been borrowed from clinical psychology, encourages respondents to reveal their unconscious feelings and attitudes , without realizing that they are doing... Read more
attachment
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing attachment (ă- tach -mĕnt) n. 1. (in psychology) the process of developing the first close selective relationship...than working solely on a geographical or district basis. clinical a. (in the NHS) an arrangement in which a person shadows... Read more
case-history
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...further study. Case-histories are also used extensively in psychiatry and social work , and in criminology and clinical psychology, employing the skills and methods of the respective disciplines. Read more
personality
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...of life. Freudian theorizing has been most influential in clinical contexts where the particular individual is the focus and...However, projective tests have also been widely used in clinical contexts, as an aid to the exploration of personality dynamics. Within academic psychology, nomothetic approaches ... Read more

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Relationship Between Comprehensive Examination Requirement in Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs and Score on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of Instructional Psychology; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Doctoral programs in clinical psychology that require comprehensive...comprehensive examinations in clinical psychology doctoral programs to the...research it was found that clinical psychology programs that had more elite... Read more
Clinical psychology program improvement on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology.
Magazine article from: Journal of Instructional Psychology; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...and stability over time of clinical psychology program graduate scores on...amp; Pointkowski, 2000). Clinical psychology programs whose graduates...The relative EPPP scores of clinical psychology program graduates has stability... Read more
Handbook of clinical psychology; 2v.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2008; 312 words ; 9780470008874 Handbook of clinical psychology; 2v. Ed. by Michel Hersen...work condenses the field of clinical psychology for graduate students and...separate major course texts for clinical psychology with adults, with 33 chapters... Read more
Comprehensive handbook of clinical health psychology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2008; 222 words ; ...Comprehensive handbook of clinical health psychology. Ed. by Bret A. Boyer...Boyer and Paharia (health psychology and clinical psychology, Widener U.), both licensed...care professionals on clinical health psychology strategies. They compile... Read more
Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology.(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch; 8/1/2004; 210 words ; Handbook Of Clinical Health Psychology Robert G. Franks, et al...1-800-368-5777 Handbook Of Clinical Health Psychology: Models And Perspectives...Robert G. Frank (Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology, College of Public Health... Read more
Annual review of clinical psychology; v.5.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 6/1/2009; 152 words ; 9780824339050 Annual review of clinical psychology; v.5. Ed. by Susan Nolen...research in the field of clinical psychology summarizes many of the models...Editors Nolen-Hoeksema (clinical psychology, Yale U.), Cannon (clinical... Read more
Clinical child and adolescent psychology; from theory to practice, 3d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2007; 159 words ; 9780470012567 Clinical child and adolescent psychology; from theory to practice...The Wiley series in clinical psychology RJ503 Herbert (emeritus...as an introduction to clinical child and adolescent psychology for trainees on postgraduate... Read more
Clinical Sport Psychology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 3/1/2006; 97 words ; 0736053050 Clinical sport psychology. Gardner, Frank...subclinical, and clinical issues. The text...approach to sport psychology blends theory and...professionals in clinical and sports psychology. ([c]20062005 Book... Read more
Clinical psychology; science, practice, and culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 6/1/2008; 158 words ; 9781412937528 Clinical psychology; science, practice, and...RC467 Presenting different clinical perspectives and emphasizing...covers all subfields of clinical psychology, including the history and current state of the field, clinical assessment, psychotherapy...as forensic and health ... Read more
Handbook of the clinical psychology of ageing, 2d ed.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 6/1/2008; 201 words ; 9780470012307 Handbook of the clinical psychology of ageing, 2d ed. Ed. by...people. Woods and Clare (clinical psychology and neuropsychology, U. of...North America who work in clinical psychology and other fields such as... Read more