Clinical Psychology: A Modern Health Profession - Hardcover

Linden, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132397277 ISBN 13: 9780132397278

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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

About this title

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Clinical Psychology 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. For undergraduate sophomore/junior level Clinical Psychology courses. The authors approached the task as beginning with an appreciation for the problems that the profession nee... Full description

About the Author:

Wolfgang Linden, Professor, Department of Psychology, The Universitiy of British Columbia

Paul Hewitt, Professor, Department of Psychology, The Universitiy of British Columbia

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0132397277
• ISBN 13: 9780132397278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496