RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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Clinical Psychologist
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Counseling Psychologist
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School Psychologist
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Developmental Psychologist
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Detailed explanation-1: -Clinical psychologists meet with clients to identify problems-emotional, mental, and behavioral-in their lives. Through observation, interviews, and tests, the psychologist will diagnose any existing or potential disorders.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Clinical Interview A clinical interview is a face-to-face encounter between a mental health professional and a patient in which the former observes the latter and gathers data about the person’s behavior, attitudes, current situation, personality, and life history.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most frequently used tests in counseling centers, staffed more frequently by counseling psychologists than other specialists, include the SII, MMPI-2, EPPS, SCT, KOIS, Rorschach, WAIS-III, and DAT.
Detailed explanation-4: -Interview technique is widely used by the psychologist for increasing counsellor’s understanding of the client. It enables the counselor to obtain specific information and to explore behaviour or response in depth. In many respects, an interview resembles tests which has reliability, validity, prediction and structure.