Perinatal clinical psychology deals with infant mental development, primary parent-child relationships, and problems related to nurturing and parenting activities of the woman and the couple during the prenatal and neonatal period. Its aims are promoting positive influences and preventing risk elements for the child’s development and for the parents raising the child, thus providing support to ...

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Research Studys Treating the Existential Uncertainty of Early- Onset Persistent Depressive Disorder Patient James P McCullough, Jr.* Emeritus Professor Clinical Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA *Corresponding author: Jr, Virginia, USA. Email: [email protected] Submission: September 20, 2022Published: October 18, 2022 DOI: 10.31031/PPRS.2022...

This review argues for the development of a Positive Clinical Psychology, which has an integrated and equally weighted focus on both positive and negative functioning in all areas of research and practice. Positive characteristics (such as gratitude, flexibility, and positive emotions) can uniquely predict disorder beyond the predictive power of the presence of negative characteristics, and buf...

UNLABELLED Previous studies of scientific communication used citation mapping, establishing psychology as a 'hub science' from which many other fields draw information. Within psychology, the clinical and counselling discipline is a major 'knowledge broker'. This study analyzed scientific communication among three major subdisciplines of clinical psychology-the cognitive-behavioural, psychodyna...

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Within the pending reform of German law psychotherapy training, education in clinical psychology and examination psychotherapeutic competencies are established as more practice oriented. Students will acquire demonstrate therapeutic skills through interactions with standardized patients (SPs). The aim current paper is to enhance evidence-based i...