In 1979, Gerald Russell described and named Bulimia Nervosa (Palmer, 2004). His rich clinical description allowed clinicians and researchers to detect and study the disorder and an explosion of attention and literature followed in the next decade (Palmer, 2004). Bulimia is a disorder characterized by recurrent, episodic binge eating, self-induced purging, restrictive dieting, or excessive exerc...

The computer-assisted analysis is not currently a novelty, but a necessity in all areas of psychology. A number of studies that examine the limits of the computer assisted and analyzed interpretations, also its advantages. A series of studies aim to assess how the computer assisting programs are able to establish a diagnosis referring to the presence of certain mental disorders. We will present...

The origins of modern clinical psychology cannot be understood independently of some longstanding, dominant characteristics of American psychology in general. One such characteristic is psychology's emphasis on the individual organism, an emphasis that ill prepared psychology in the post-World War II period for the public arena. One of the consequences for clinical psychology was that it became...

Positive psychology is the scientific study of positive experiences and positive individual traits, and the institutions that facilitate their development. A field concerned with well-being and optimal functioning, positive psychology aims to broaden the focus of clinical psychology beyond suffering and its direct alleviation. Our proposed conceptual framework parses happiness into three domain...

This study intends to shed light on expertise development in clinical psychology during university studies and beyond. So far, 70 participants at different stages of training have taken part in the study, ranging from psychology undergraduates to expert therapists. All participants completed a computerbased questionnaire consisting of 3 parts: a knowledge test, open-format questions, and case s...

Competing models of doctoral training in clinical psychology are described and compared within their historical contexts. Trends in the field are examined critically with a focus on the impact of managed care on doctoral training and clinical practice. Implications for the future of doctoral training are considered, and a blueprint for the future of doctoral training in clinical psychology is p...

This book was first published fourteen years ago in the United States and one ponders why it is now produced for the British market. One supposes that the pub-lshers must believe that psychology is at least fourteen years behind in Britain c?mpared to the United States and that they hope for a market for the book here. At the time when it was published in the U.S.A. this book was a fairly good ...