Clinical Psychology Gabriela Alvarez Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology is one of the most prominent specialty areas in psychology today. Clinical psychology focuses and strives to understand‚ assess and treat psychological and behavioral problems and disorders (Plante‚ 2010). According to Bedi (2012)‚ “Clinical psychology is a broad approach to human problems . . . with regard to numerous populations.” Furthermore‚ analyzing the methods in which the human psyche interacts with
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For example‚ the motivating factors that cause a person to push through adversity‚ and rise up to a challenge. Over time it has been agreed upon the vast world of psychology that whether intrinsic or extrinsic‚ the ultimate motivating factor for people to change behavior is the perceived reward. In the case of a person who is unhappy with his/her job‚ there is a motivation to search for a new one. Accordingly‚ the reward
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in diagnosis (for example‚ cultural variation‚ stigmatization). 2. Ethics is an area of study which seeks to address questions about morality; that is‚ about concepts such as good and bad‚ right and wrong‚ justice‚ and virtue. 3. Ethics and psychology are intimately linked‚ inseparable concepts. Every psychological investigation is an ethically charged situation‚ as research often involves subjecting both human and animal participants to pain or embarrassment. In psychological experiments on
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Abnormal Psychology and Therapy Within psychology‚ there are many facets. Two of these are normal and abnormal psychology. Normal psychology is the study of normal human behaviors and processes‚ whereas abnormal psychology‚ or psychopathology‚ is the study of atypical behaviors and thought processes including behaviors and thoughts outside what is considered the societal norm. These include mood‚ anxiety‚ psychotic‚ cognitive‚ and personality disorders as well as a host of other mental illnesses
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CHAPTER 5 Identity in Adolescence James E. Marcia INTRODUCTION One difficulty in studying adolescence is the definition of the period itself. It is somewhat variable but specific in its beginnings with the physiological changes of puberty; it is highly variable and nonspecific in its end. If the termination of adolescence were to depend on the attainment of a certain psychosocial position‚ the formation of an identity. then. for some. it would never end. Moreover. identity is an even
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Conformity is a social psychological phenomenon that occurs in humans’ everyday lives‚ but oftentimes goes unrecognized. Through psychological studies such as Milgram’s prisoner experiment‚ psychologists even discovered that in some situations social pressures exert such strong pressures on conformity that people will go to extreme lengths when under its influence. Prominent examples of conformity include the pressure people have to wear similar types of clothing‚ language pressure that results in
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The Psychodynamic Approach The psychodynamic approach was developed by Sigmund Freud around 1890. Freud was a neurologist at the university of Vienna‚ by 1885 Freud was a given a scholarship to work alongside Charcot who specialised in treating patients with unsolved physical symptoms (McLeod‚ 2007). Freud was influenced by Charcot’s work on traumatic hysteria which looked at how traumatic experiences affected the unconscious mind (Cherry‚ 2013). Freud also found a lot of interest in Breuer’s case
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what they see. It makes work really easy‚ just by that‚ I can help them look for something that might interest them or at least something I can make seem interesting to them. Positive reinforcement‚ the term means to strengthen‚ and is used in psychology to refer to anything stimulus which strengthens or increases the probability of a specific response. For example‚ if you want to train your dog to sit on command‚ you could give the dog a treat every time he sits for you. The dog will eventually
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Positive Psychology-A Current perspective Author Krishan Kumar Dr. Rajiv Dogra Corresponding Address Krishan Kumar‚ M. Sc‚ M. Phil (M& SP)‚ PhD (Pur) Clinical Psychology‚ Computational Neuroscience National Brain Research Centre‚ Manesar Email- keshusony@rediffmail.com Ph.no. 9999516319 Dr. Rajiv Dogra Associte Professor‚ Department of Clinical Psychology Post Graduate College and Medical Sciences‚ Rohtak Email- Rajeevdogra@rediffmail.com What is positive psychology?
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Applied Areas of Psychology: Military Psychology Drew University Keira M. Driscoll 11/30/08 Military psychology is an area of applied psychology that is somewhat difficult to define due to the large area of activities in its field that it covers. Military psychology covers psychological research‚ assessment‚ and treatment. The field of military psychology is used not only with soldiers but with civilians (Strickland & Cengage‚ 2001). Military psychology is the research
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