clinical psychology

English

Noun

clinical psychology (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

Usage notes

This term typically pertains to clinics in general unless in the context of parapsychology.

Translations

branch of psychology

• Arabic: عِلْم نَفْس سَرِيرِيّ m (ʕilm nafs sarīriyy)
• Armenian: կլինիկական հոգեբանություն (klinikakan hogebanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: klinik psixologiya
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: клинична психология (klinična psihologija)
• Catalan: psicologia clínica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 臨床心理學／临床心理学 (línchuáng xīnlǐxué)

• Czech: klinická psychologie
• Danish: klinisk psykologi
• Dutch: klinische psychologie f
• Esperanto: klinika psikologio, klinika psiĥologio
• Estonian: kliiniline psühholoogia
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kliininen psykologia (fi)
• French: psychologie clinique
• Galician: psicoloxía clínica
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Klinische Psychologie f
• Greek: κλινική ψυχολογία f (klinikí psychología)
• Hebrew: פסיכולוגיה קלינית (he)
• Hindi: नैदानिक मनोविज्ञान (naidānik manovijñān)
• Hungarian: klinikai pszichológia
• Icelandic: klínísk sálfræði f
• Indonesian: psikologi klinis
• Italian: psicologia clinica (it) f
• Japanese: 臨床心理学 (ja) (rinshō shinrigaku)
• Latvian: klīniskā psiholoģija f
• Lithuanian: klininkinė psichologija f
• Malay: psikologi klinikal
• Norwegian: klinisk psykologi
• Persian: روان‌شناسی بالینی
• Polish: psychologia kliniczna f
• Portuguese: psicologia clínica f
• Romanian: psihologie clinică f
• Russian: клиническая психоло́гия f (kliničeskaja psixológija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клиничка психологија f

  Roman: klinička psihologija f

• Slovak: klinická psychológia f
• Slovene: klinična psihologija f
• Spanish: psicología clínica f
• Swedish: klinisk psykologi
• Thai: จิตวิทยาคลินิก (jìt wíttáyaa klínìk)
• Turkish: klinik psikoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: клінічна психологія f (klinična psyxolohija)
• Vietnamese: tâm lý học lâm sàng

See also

• parapsychology

Further reading

• clinical psychology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia