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Clinical psychology is that specialty area within psychology concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychological and behavioral adjustment problems of varying severity among adults and children. The adjustment problems range from the minor problems and stress reactions of everyday life associated with family, school, and work settings to major chronic psychotic disorders (e.g., schizophrenic spectrum and major depressions). In general, clinical psychology is concerned with the problems associated with the five “D” labels of mal-adjustment and mal-adaptation: “discomfort, dysfunction, disorder, disease, and deviancy.”
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Marsella, A.J. (2011). Internationalizing the Clinical Psychology Curriculum: Foundations, Issues, and Directions. In: Leong, F., Pickren, W., Leach, M., Marsella, A. (eds) Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States. International and Cultural Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0073-8_9
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