clinical psychology

clinical psychology

English

Noun

clinical psychology (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

Usage notes

This term typically pertains to clinics in general unless in the context of parapsychology.

Translations

branch of psychology

Arabic: عِلْم نَفْس سَرِيرِيّ‎ m (ʿilm nafs sarīriyy) Armenian: կլինիկական հոգեբանություն (klinikakan hogebanutʿyun) Azerbaijani: klinik psixologiya Bengali: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: клинична психология (klinična psihologija) Catalan: psicologia clínica f Chinese: Mandarin: 臨床心理學／临床心理学 (línchuáng xīnlǐxué) Czech: klinická psychologie Danish: klinisk psykologi Dutch: klinische psychologie f Esperanto: klinika psikologio, klinika psiĥologio Estonian: kliiniline psühholoogia Faroese: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kliininen psykologia (fi) French: psychologie clinique Galician: psicoloxía clínica Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Klinische Psychologie f Greek: κλινική ψυχολογία f (klinikí psychología) Hebrew: פסיכולוגיה קלינית‎ (he) Hindi: नैदानिक मनोविज्ञान (naidānik manovigyān) Hungarian: klinikai pszichológia Icelandic: klínísk sálfræði f Italian: psicologia clinica (it) f Japanese: 臨床心理学 (ja) (rinshō shinrigaku) Latvian: klīniskā psiholoģija f Lithuanian: klininkinė psichologija f Norwegian: klinisk psykologi Persian: روان‌شناسی بالینی‎ Polish: psychologia kliniczna f Portuguese: psicologia clínica f Romanian: psihologie clinică f Russian: клиническая психоло́гия f (kliničeskaja psixológija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: клиничка психологија f Roman: klinička psihologija f Slovak: klinická psychológia f Slovene: klinična psihologija f Spanish: psicología clínica f Swedish: klinisk psykologi Thai: จิตวิทยาคลินิก (jìt wíttáyaa klínìk) Turkish: klinik psikoloji (tr) Ukrainian: клінічна психологія f (klinična psyxolohija) Vietnamese: tâm lý học lâm sàng

See also

• parapsychology

Further reading

• clinical psychology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia