Introduces students to Clinical Psychology by portraying the field as a health profession that uses cognition, emotion, and somatic principles to help understand, assess, and modify health showcasing the field in its reality. Unique features of the text include:
- A fresh approach to learning, with an emphasis on problem solving
- A presentation of clinical psychology as an integrative health care profession and not just a mental health care field
- Inclusion of social and biological bases of behavior
- Material pertaining to the realities of being a clinical psychologist