What does "clinical psychology" mean?

A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

Clinical psychology

Q: What is a synonym for "clinical psychology"?

Common synonyms include: academic program, branch of psychology, clinical practice, education track, field of psychology, parapsychology.

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1
A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. uncountable
2
the branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal mentation and behavior wordnet

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academic program branch of psychology clinical practice education track field of psychology parapsychology

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research self directed learning theoretical psychology theory development

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