(p. 277). Westaby, Pfaff & Redding (2014) continue to explain how researchers in clinical psychology derived these eight roles from an extensive body of research, citing studies and their validity and reliability issues. Then, the authors refer to how psychologists in a number of different roles have come up with the dynamic network charts that can be used to inform best practices in organizational psychology, or in any other context that reveals the power of social networks.
Professional Roles
The Westaby, Pfaff & Redding (2014) article highlights the differentiation between various professional roles in the field of psychology. Applying equally as well to… Continue Reading...
is historically significant because of its ongoing contributions to empirical clinical psychology, to cognitive-behavioral psychology, and branches of the field dealing that focus on how to eliminate undesirable behaviors or motivate desirable behaviors.
HTE psychology is unlike either behaviorism or psychoanalysis. However, HTE approaches do share in common with psychoanalysis an emphasis on subjective experiences and phenomena: “psychoanalysis and humanism have certain compatible features, but that they generally represent opposing vantage points in the study of subjectivity,” (Hansen, 2011, p. 21). HTE approaches to the human experience tend to include spirituality as part of the human experience (Elkins, Hedstrom, Hughes,… Continue Reading...
that structural and institutional variables are impeding the delivery of quality mental health care to the prison community.
Interestingly, the profession of clinical psychology was practically born in the prison context. As Magaletta, et al. (2016) point out, prison wardens partnered with psychologists seeking training opportunities and subjects for experiments since the early 20th century. Prison psychologists have had at their disposal access to subjects for research into the endogenous and exogenous factors that may cause or contribute to criminal behavior. Prisoners have long been viewed as a relatively dispensable part of the human population and the lack of attention given to their treatment remains a major ethnical infraction (Magaletta, et al.,… Continue Reading...
(2003). Mindfulness training as a clinical intervention: a conceptual and
empirical review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10(2): 125-143.
This study focuses on the role that mindfulness can play in helping care givers to be more in the moment, present, and able to provide quality care. It demonstrates that by teaching meditation practices or techniques to care givers, problems or deficiencies in care can be reduced. Mindfulness training could be used as an appropriate intervention in elder abuse, especially if prosecution of abusers is neither wanted by the victim nor possible by the state. For criminal justice agencies that prefer to focus on prevention,… Continue Reading...
