{"id":69440,"date":"2025-11-14T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/clinical-psychology\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:45:20","slug":"clinical-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/clinical-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a psychological discipline and branch of psychology whose subject matter includes mental disorders (disturbances) and the psychological aspects of somatic disorders\/diseases. In modern medicine and psychology, the terms \u201cclinical psychology\u201d and \u201cmedical psychology\u201d are most often used and understood as synonyms, although in a number of countries, including Russia and the UAE, some specialists distinguish between these concepts. The prerequisites for the emergence of this branch of psychology were laid by the empirical research of French and Russian psychiatrists of the late nineteenth century (Ribot, Bekhterev), and the term \u201cclinical psychology\u201d was introduced in 1907 by the American psychologist Lightner Witmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a psychological discipline and branch of psychology whose subject matter includes mental disorders (disturbances) and the psychological aspects of somatic disorders\/diseases. In modern medicine and psychology, the terms \u201cclinical psychology\u201d and \u201cmedical psychology\u201d are most often used and understood as synonyms, although in a number of countries, including Russia and the UAE, some specialists distinguish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-clinical-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80535,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69440\/revisions\/80535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}