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Definition of Clinical psychology
1. Noun. The branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal mentation and behavior.
Definition of Clinical psychology
1. Noun. (psychology) A branch of psychology with purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. ¹
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Medical Definition of Clinical psychology
1. A branch of psychology that specialises in both discovering new knowledge and in applying the art and science of psychology to persons with emotional or behavioural disorders; subspecialties include clinical child psychology and paediatric psychology. (05 Mar 2000)