Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Survey of Clinical Practice in Psychology
Clinical psychologists are busy and versatile people, as the chapters of this volume clearly Show. Even experienced members Of the profession find it difficult to secure a comprehensive view Of all the duties that clinical psychologists perform, the many places in which they work, and the wide range of human problems with which they try to cope. No one person could prepare so informative and so provocative a survey as have the authors Of these twenty-seven chapters, each writing as a first-hand participant In a distinctive specialty.
Within the apparent diversity Of clinical psychology, considerable unity can be discovered. The characteristic responsibilities of clinical psychologists are similar whether they work in universities, the com munity, hospitals, schools, prisons, or industries. Their duties also cut across the varied kinds of persons and problems with which they deal whether school child or neurotic adult, psychotic patient or delinquent juvenile, mental defective or unhappy senescent. With all these persons, psychologists first try to achieve an understanding based on the hypo theses Oi their science and the techniques of their profession. Then they apply their understandings so as to help the people help themselves. The basis of this common ground is that people are people. The major con cerns of clinical psychologists are to understand them and to help them no matter whether these activities are labeled diagnosis and therapy, or called by other less pretentious names.
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