Clinical Psychology- Vantage Learning Platform

Science, Practice, and Diversity

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KEY FEATURES OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, SIXTH EDITION

New to this Edition:

• More than 550 new references published in 2020, 2021, or 2022, ensuring extremely current coverage across all chapters. All 19 chapters feature new references, with at least 15 and as many as 80 in each chapter.
• Enhanced and expanded diversity-related coverage, including research on diversity-related topics and more inclusive clinical examples, photos, and language.
• New and expanded coverage of technology-related topics, including teletherapy, clinical interviews by videoconference, wearable/ambulatory assessment techniques, ethical issues involving social media and Google searches, and how socioeconomic status can affect equitable access to teletherapy.
• Updated coverage of DSM, including the introduction of DSM-5-TR and the new disorder it introduced: prolonged grief disorder.
• Well-curated coverage of COVID-related topics, to ensure that students appreciate the ways that research and practice in clinical psychology have been influenced by the pandemic.
• Expanded coverage of current topics such as the transdiagnostic approach and the unified protocol, current models of psychopathology such as HiTOP and RDoC, and more.
• Updated coverage of evidence-based therapy status, including “what works” for a wide range of therapy approaches according to the list maintained by APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) and other sources.
• Updates to the unique end-of-chapter feature, Looking Toward Graduate School, which serves as a bridge between the topics in a particular chapter and graduate programs that offer further training or experience in those topics.

Key Features:

• Content reflective of DSM-5 offers the most accurate and current coverage of the clinical psychology field.
• A full chapter on cultural issues, culturally diverse clinical examples, and unique Considering Culture boxes encourage students to appreciate culturally relevant issues surrounding research, psychotherapy, assessment, and other topics.
• Interviews with renowned experts in multicultural clinical work discuss cultural competence with a specific cultural group based on ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Experts include Melba Vasquez, Frederick Leong, Robert Williams, Monica McGoldrick, Joseph Trimble, Nadya Faoud, Kathleen Bieschke, Karen Haboush, and Lewis Schlosser.
• In My Practice text boxes illustrate key concepts with stories from the author’s own clinical psychology practice.
• Original In My Practice whiteboard videos accompanying In My Practice text boxes bring cases and stories to life.
• Metaphorically Speaking boxes teach students about novel concepts by drawing parallels to concepts with which they are already familiar.
• Denise in _____ Psychotherapy boxes illustrate how a fictional therapy client would be treated according to psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, and group approaches.
• Key Journals sections list important journals to which students can turn for more information on chapter-related topics.