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Clinical Psychology

Clinical psychology is the branch of psychology devoted to understanding, assessing, and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, integrating scientific research, psychological theory, and clinical practice to relieve distress and improve functioning. It addresses a broad range of concerns, from anxiety…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 110× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Clinical psychology is the branch of psychology devoted to understanding, assessing, and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, integrating scientific research, psychological theory, and clinical practice to relieve distress and improve functioning. It addresses a broad range of concerns, from anxiety, depression, and trauma to relational difficulties, chronic stress, and the psychological dimensions of physical illness, across the lifespan and in diverse settings. Practitioners draw on systematic assessment, including clinical interviewing, psychological testing, and case formulation, to characterize problems and guide individualized treatment. Intervention spans multiple evidence-based approaches, including cognitive and behavioral therapies, psychodynamic and humanistic methods, and psychosocial interventions, often informed by how emotional processes such as the repression or regulation of feeling affect mental and physical health. Clinical psychology also encompasses the study of self-monitoring and self-management, recognizing that structured attention to one's own thoughts, emotions, and behavior can support adaptive change, as well as developmental and aging-related influences on psychological health. As a discipline grounded in the scientist-practitioner model, it emphasizes that clinical methods should be tested, theory-informed, and responsive to context, and it attends to the boundaries between psyche and soma where psychological and bodily symptoms intersect. By uniting empirical inquiry with applied care, clinical psychology contributes both to the treatment of psychological disorders and to a deeper understanding of human thought, emotion, and behavior.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

Aging and Positive Psychology

Marks RayCorresponding author
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 6 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-3979
2020

Pain between Psyche and Soma in Uro-Andrology

Pruneti CarloCorresponding author
Dept. of Medicine and Surgery, Clinical Psychology, Clinical Psychophysiology and Clinical Neuropsychology Labs., University of Parma, Italy.
Exact topic International Journal of Pain Management Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2688-5328.ijp-20-3386

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 110 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Clinical Psychology, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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