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Converging on a richer understanding of human behavior and experience through a blending of cognitive and clinical psychology
Author(s) -
RoskosEwoldsen Beverly
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20229
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , temperament , scope (computer science) , psychological intervention , cognitive psychology , information processing , cognitive science , psychotherapist , social psychology , personality , neuroscience , psychiatry , computer science , programming language
McClelland, Kemps, and Tiggemann's (this issue) use of experimental methods typically used in cognitive psychology to reduce the intensity of food cravings formed the basis for maintaining that an understanding of human experiences and behaviors requires a blending of cognitive and clinical psychological approaches. Clinical psychology can adapt cognitive models of information processing to understand the mechanisms underlying clinical phenomena and to create and evaluate effective interventions. Cognitive psychology should broaden its scope to include information relevant to clinical phenomena, such as desire, attitudes, self‐regulation, and temperament. Only through a blending of these two fields will we converge on a richer understanding of human behavior and experience. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 62: 367–371, 2006.