Chapter 24: Clinical Psychology

David Harper

Clinical psychology Clinical psychology ‘aims to reduce psychological distress and to enhance and promote psychological well-being by the systematic application of knowledge derived from psychological theory and data’ (British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology, 2001: 2). In reviewing qualitative research in clinical psychology, I will provide examples from a range of specialties (e.g. work with adults, children, people with learning disabilities and so on) and so I will not duplicate the significant literatures in forensic psychology (see Chapter 28 ), health psychology (see Chapter 22 ), developmental psychology (see Chapter 23 ) or psychotherapy and counselling research (see Chapter 25 ). Most of the studies I discuss here have either been conducted by clinical psychologists, or included clinical psychologists in the research team. Some studies are by academic researchers but are either on a clinical topic or have been published in clinical psychology-related journals. The predominant model of clinical ...

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