CLINICAL-PSYCHOLOGY - BEYOND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY AND CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS

As clinical psychology addresses an increasingly wide spectrum of problems, the discipline's dominant emphasis on psychopathology must be integrated with an equivalent understanding of psychosocial problems. Such a balance is viewed as improving work done in relation to all problems addressed by clinical psychology and the mental health field. In support of these views, this article explores the importance of going beyond psychopathology with respect to (a) classifying behavioral, emotional, and learning problems and (b) conceiving intervention models.