Clinical Psychology: A British Perspective

Reviews the book, What is Clinical Psychology? edited by John S. Marzillier and John Hall (1987). On the one hand, there has been a rapid and worthy increase in needed health service providers accomplished, in part, by the emergence of practitioner programs, on the other hand, there is a diminished impact of psychology in the American scientific enterprise. The role of professional practice must be considered in terms of its implications for psychology as a science. This book will have diminished appeal in the United States, largely because of its presentation of professional practice in a British context. It might also have a lessened appeal to those who remain committed to traditional psychodynamically oriented intervention. But, for students receiving exposure to clinical psychology for the first time, for those seeking career guidance, and for those consumers of mental health services who remain confused as to the place of psychologists among health professionals, this book is a valuable aid. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)