Clinical Psychology

and on adult populations (clinical adult psychology) that are the subject of
research, assessment, and treatment in the field. All chapters have been revised
to reflect this perspective.

Specialties in Clinical Psychology

As in previous editions, several specialty areas are discussed in this textbook:
community psychology, health psychology and behavioral medicine, neuropsy-
chology, and forensic psychology. We focus on these specialties because of their
growth potential and interest for students and clinical psychologists in training.

Ethical Guidelines

The American Psychological Association published a new version ofEthical
Guidelinesin 2002. These guidelines are discussed throughout the text, but espe-
cially in Chapters 3 and 4. We also discuss the issue of psychological testing and
the American Disabilities Act in Chapter 8.

New Features

This edition contains several new features that provide greater focus on important
issues. Specifically, we include boxes called (1) Focus on Professional Issues, (2)
Focus on Clinical Applications, (3) Clinical Psychologist Perspective, and (4) Grad-
uate Student Perspective. The first two box types highlight issues that are relevant
to the profession of clinical psychology (both past and present) and issues concern-
ing the application of clinical psychology (e.g., testing, treatment, etc.), respec-
tively. The latter two box types present personal perspectives written by clinical
psychologists about both the general field of clinical psychology as well as special-
ties in clinical psychology, and personal perspectives on applying to graduate
school and being a graduate student in clinical psychology, respectively.
Another new feature in this edition appears in the Appendix,A Primer for
Applying to Graduate Programs in Clinical Psychology. We hope this is helpful to
those considering a career in clinical psychology by highlighting the differences
among mental health professionals, the differences between degrees in clinical
psychology, the differences in graduate training programs for clinical psycholo-
gists, and the nuts and bolts of the application process.

Clinical Psychologist

and Graduate Student Perspectives

As we mentioned, new to this edition are a number of Clinical Psychologist and
Graduate Student Perspective profiles. In addition to clinical psychologists, we
chose to feature graduate students as well. It is our belief that prospective

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