The following facts are well known: 1. The American Psychological Association twelve years ago established a section of clinical psychology whose fundamental aim was to "advance professional standards in the field of clinical psychology." In furtherance of this aim, the section adopted as the minimal requirement for membership, the Ph.D. degree in various branches of psychology, and the publica...

Citation: Castelli L, Castelnuovo G and Torta R (2015) Editorial: PsychOncology: clinical psychology for cancer patients—Cancer: the key role of clinical psychology. Psychological issues take on great importance in oncology settings from the communication of the diagnosis to the management of the end-of-life phase (Baider and Surbone, 2014; Chaturvedi et al., 2014; Grassi et al., 2015). When di...

<p>We present an interview with Victor K. Zaretsky, PhD in Psychology, Professor, Chair of Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Faculty Counseling Clinical Moscow State University Psychology Education (Moscow, Russia).</p>

Evidence for the effectiveness of mindfulness as a clinical intervention is quickly growing. Much of our current understanding and application of mindfulness within clinical psychology has arisen from dialogue with Buddhist traditions, with the notable exception of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. We wrote this article with two purposes: (1) to provide a concise review of mindfulness within t...

health psychologist (PGS in Spanish) in 2011, there has been a heated debate on the training process in the field of clinical psychology, stoked by academics, professionals and students, but primarily ignited by poor and chaotic regulation. The central point of the discussion is whether the new master’s degree in general health psychology (MPGS in Spanish) should be an essential condition for a...

The present work seeks to increase the interest of psychologists promote creativity people, in specialties Organizational, Clinical, and Educational psychology. He highlights application mindfulness recommends learning about “lateral thinking” useful for creative problem solving. document is mainly oriented students professional career psychology

How to quantify exposure to traumatic stress? Reliability and predictive validity of measures for cumulative trauma exposure in a post-conflict population Sarah Wilker*, Anett Pfeiffer, Stephan Kolassa, Daniela Koslowski, Thomas Elbert and Iris-Tatjana Kolassa Clinical & Biological Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany; Vivo International, Allensbach, G...

*a,b Petra H. Wirtz, Ph.D., a Livia Thomas, M.S., c Gregor Domes, Ph.D., d Frank J. Penedo, Ph.D., b Ulrike Ehlert, Ph.D. & e Fridtjof W. Nussbeck, Ph.D. a Biological and Health Psychology, University of Bern, Switzerland b Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland c Department of Psychology, University of Freiburg, Germany d Department of Psychology...