Clinical Psychology (PSY 334 Introduction to Clinical Psychology)
Timothy J. Trull
Language: English
Pages: 688
ISBN: 0495508225
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In language your students will understand and enjoy reading, Timothy Trull's CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY offers a concrete and well-rounded introduction to clinical psychology. A highly respected clinician and researcher, Dr. Trull examines the rigorous research training that clinicians receive, along with the empirically supported assessment methods and interventions that clinical psychologists must understand to be successful in the field. This new edition of Trull's bestselling text covers cutting-edge trends, as well as offers enhanced coverage of culture, gender and diversity, and contemporary issues of health care. Written to inspire students thinking of pursuing careers in the field of clinical psychology, this text is a complete introduction.
description is as good as another for a particular case. THE INTERVIEW Almost all professions count interviewing as a chief technique for gathering data and making decisions. For politicians, consumers, psychiatrists, employers, or people in general, interviewing has always been a major tool. As with any activity that is engaged in frequently, people sometimes take interviewing for granted or believe that it involves no special skills; they can easily overestimate their understanding of the
or competence. 36 CHAPTER 2 A major development in the intelligence testing movement occurred in 1939, when David Wechsler published the Wechsler-Bellevue test. Until then, there had been no satisfactory individual measure of adult intelligence. Subsequent revisions of the Wechsler-Bellevue have served as the premier individual tests for adult intelligence. Tests of intelligence, interests, and abilities were not the only testing developments in these years. The field of personality testing
We will discuss many of these interventions in later chapters. Recently, some psychologists began to place pressure on state legislatures to allow psychologists with specialized training the authority to write prescriptions for psychotropic medication. First, in 1995, the American Psychological Association officially endorsed the pursuit of prescription privileges for psychologists. Then in 2002, New Mexico became the first state to enact a law authorizing properly trained psychologists to
how to be inquisitive and skeptical, how to think logically, how to formulate hypotheses and to test them, how to gather data rather than opinion, how to analyze those data and draw inferences from them, and how to make a balanced presentation of the findings. These are skills that help … professional psychologists to rise above the technician level. (p. 209) The Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) Degree The foregoing controversy was at least partially responsible for the emergence of Doctor of
psychology course taught by John Exner (the world-famous Rorschach expert), devoted primarily to projective tests. Exner encouraged me to apply to graduate school in clinical psychology and gave me a list of prospective graduate programs, all psychodynamically oriented. As I began filling out applications, my roommate’s father, who happened to be a psychologist, visited campus. He suggested that I apply to Ohio State University (where he got his Essentially, a network of graduate programs and