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What is clinical psychology?
The field of Clinical Psychology integrates science, theory, and practice to understand, predict, and alleviate maladjustment, disability, and discomfort as well as to promote human adaptation, adjustment, and personal development. Clinical Psychology focuses on the intellectual, emotional, biological, psychological, social, and behavioral aspects of human functioning across the life span, in varying cultures, and at [...]
Clinical psychology
Clinical psychology includes the study and application of psychology for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Central to its practice are psychological assessment and psychotherapy, although clinical psychologists may also engage in research, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony, and program development and administration. [...]
Applied psychology
The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas, such as mental health, business management, education, health, product design, ergonomics, and law. Applied psychology includes the areas of clinical psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, human factors, forensic psychology, engineering psychology, as well as many other areas [...]
Advice for Valentine’s Day
From the red used in ancient rituals to today’s red hearts on Valentine’s Day, the rosy hue has been tied to carnal passions and romantic love across cultures and millennia. Now recent psychological research provides the first empirical support for society’s enduring love affair with red. A study by two University of Rochester psychologists published [...]
Refusing to keep on learning
It seems so much easier to continue functioning in old familiar habit patterns than to make the effort to change. After all, making changes in one’s life requires identifying what different outcomes you desire and what actions needed to make those outcomes manifest. Then there is the planning, practice, persistence and progress required to make [...]
Women with more estrogen are more likely to be attractive
Women with higher estrogen levels more likely to shop for mates, UT study finds. Estrogen, it would seem, has a good reason for being called the female sex hormone. New research from the University of Texas suggests that women with higher levels of estrogen might feel a stronger urge than women with less of it [...]
Respond to life rather than react
“Life is 10 percent of what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell It is true that we often do not have much control over what happens in our lives. We like to think we do, but things surely do not always unfold the way we would [...]
Blood Pressure and Outside Temperature
Researchers also urging close monitoring of elderly with hypertension during weather extremes; second study says thinking ability varies with blood pressure The recent discovery that the blood pressure readings for senior citizens vary in reverse to the outside temperature – colder temperature equals higher blood pressure reading – may have something to do with the [...]
Psychology of color: It can affect mood, appetite, even raise your blood pressure
Chris Reynolds’ love of bright household colors began during a trip to Mexico. “In Mexico, everything is bright. I just like it. You do need some visual stimulation, especially in Montana during the winter,” she said. Reynolds, a registered nurse in Bozeman, painted her sons’ room a bright lime green, and her living room is [...]
Credentials of therapists?
Ph.D., Psy.D., MSW, NCC etc etc? What are the credentials of people who conduct counseling and psychotherapy? This question has come up so many times, but the answer can still be pretty complicated. In some professions, the types of training that are possible to get to that profession are very narrow. There might be differences [...]