Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a fatal and progressive disease, characterized by progressive muscles weakness, with consequent loss of physical capacities. Psychologists can play an important role in ALS care, by providing clinical activities in every step of the disease, including support and counseling activities directed to patients, their caregivers and to physicians.

Accepting an invitation to review the book Apartheid and the making of a Black psychologist was an easy decision despite competing demands and deadlines. It was, after all, a memoir by Chabani Manganyi. As a student, I had great admiration for Manganyi, because he represented hope for aspiring psychologists of colour in a country marked by fervent attempts to suppress Black advancement. My earl...

The important developments in our understanding and harnessing the biology of migraine have not diminished the need to consider the psychology of migraine. Psychological treatments especially relaxation training and biofeedback have been well validated as effective in treating frequent migraine. When the frequency and severity of migraine warrants more than analgesics, these treatments are the ...

Integrative data analysis (IDA), a novel framework for conducting the simultaneous analysis of raw data pooled from multiple studies, offers many advantages including economy (i.e., reuse of extant data), power (i.e., large combined sample sizes), the potential to address new questions not answerable by a single contributing study (e.g., combining longitudinal studies to cover a broader swath o...

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GENERAL COMMENTARY article Front. Psychol., 17 May 2021Sec. Psychology for Clinical Settings https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.665632

The present article attempts to point out a promising model of emotional intelligence and its measure for identifying usefulness in clinical psychology research and practice. The place of emotional intelligence in clinical psychology is examined in relation to existing concepts, that is, alexithymia, neuroticism, general mental ability, social intelligence, and empathy. The psychometric status ...

This article aims to identify the most efficient ways to teach and learn the professional competencies required in clinical psychology. There are a wide variety of influences on clinical psychology curricula that leads to a lack of coherence in aims and methods. When clinical psychology trainees come face-to-face with their first client, they are challenged to integrate their existing declarati...

N 1949, the major names in clinical psychology in the US met in Boulder, Colorado, to discuss the state of clinical psychology after the Second World War. This conference, and subsequent proceedings (Raimy, 1950), led to the development of what has become known as the ‘scientist-practitioner’ model of clinical psychology. This model entailed a combination of the scientific basis of psychology w...

This article reviews the concept that professional psychology is synonymous with mental health. The acceptance of this concept results in limiting the potential impact that psychology has for both individuals and society. Historical antecedents of both psychology and professional psychology are considered as laying a foundation for a necessary paradigm shift from primarily mental health to heal...