Clinical Psychology: A Modern Health Profession

Description 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. Unique features of the text include: A fresh approach to learning, with an emphasis on problem solving A presentation of clinical psychology as an integrative health care profession and not just a mental health care field Inclusion of social and biological bases of behavior Material pertaining to the realities of being a clinical psychologist Features Target audience: undergraduates students Special boxes within each chapter that highlight, and go into greater depth about, a particularly interesting topic (e.g., concrete steps undertaken to solve an ethical dilemma). The text is oriented to solve real-life problems that Clinical Psychologists face Provides coverage of the typical key topics in assessment and psychotherapy but also represents a broad and very up-to-date of the field and recent changes including synergistic changes in psychotherapy models, evidence-based treatment, psychopharmacology, and biological perspectives on assessment and treatment Offers many tips for career development field and recent changes including synergistic changes in psychotherapy models, evidence-based treatment, psychopharmacology, and biological perspectives on assessment and treatment Offers many tips for career development Table of Contents 1. The Profession 2. Career Planning 3. Psychological Tests 4. Ethics 5. Psychological Problems that Clinical Psychologists Focus On 6. Psychological Assessment 7. Psychodiagnostic Assessment 8. Intellectual Assessment 9. Behavioral Assessment 10. Psychotherapy 11. Psychoanalysis 12. Behavior Therapy 13. Therapy Outcome Research 14. Treatment Specificity 15. Developmental Stages and Child Psychopathology 16. Forensic Psychology 17. Health and the Causation of Disesase 18. Clinical Case Scenario 19. Changes in Health Care Author Wolfgang Linden, Professor, Department of Psychology, The Universitiy of British Columbia Paul Hewitt, Professor, Department of Psychology, The Universitiy of British Columbia