How can we define clinical psychology? The answer requires an understanding of the history of psychology and its ability to understand the human being in its psychic aspect through time.
When we say "clinical", we say "bed",
"hospital", a space where psychologists play the role of doctors, but
this role is very difficult because it is focused on the patient who may have
mental illnesses, something that is not easily observable and that leads
psychologists to use any knowledge and any technique that can help to intervene
and deal with what is not normal in the patient's behavior.
This observation may shed some light on what clinical psychology means,
but we will present more than that in our work, which will explain this
sub-discipline of psychology through three axes:
Clinical psychology from the etymology of the word towards a definition
of clinical psychology, passing on the history and evolution of the
sub-discipline, its object of study and the existing differences between it and
other concepts such as psychotherapy and psychopathology.
The work will focus on the practice of clinical psychology, how do
clinicians intervene? what methods and techniques are used to intervene?
Finally, our work will address the issue of clinical psychology and management. If clinical psychology aims at helping people to discover their
suffering but also their difficulties/disturbances at the psychic level, how will
this be beneficial for the actors and human resources managers
within organizations?
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