Definition of "clinical 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. (noun)

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• "He holds two doctoral degrees: a PhD in experimental psychology from Princeton University and a PsyD in clinical psychology from Rutgers University."
• "Joel Franks, the psychiatrist, who was the assistant director of the inpatient unit at Children’s, had been a resident of the same hospital in Denver where I had been a clinical psychology intern."