CLINICAL

PSYCHOLOGY
SUBMITTED BY: TABINDAH REHMAN
GROUP:2, SEMESTER:4
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
• Is the psychological branch that
provides continuing and comprehensive
mental and behavioral health care.
• Is a broad branch of psychology that
focuses on diagnosing and treating
mental, emotional, and behavioral
disorders
COMMON DISORDERS:

• Depression
• Eating disorder
• Substance abuse
• Anxiety
• Learning disabilities
MENTAL HEALTH

• It is a state of well-being in which every individual realizes their potential, can cope with
normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and able to make
contribution to community
MENTAL ILLNESS

• Refers to disorders that affects your mood, thinking , behavior

• Refers to general mental health problem that we can experience in certain stressful
circumstances
TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESSES

• Mood disorders: Depression , mania and bipolar

• Anxiety disorders: Post traumatic stress disorders, panic disorders, obsessive-compulsive
disorder
• Personality disorders: antisocial personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder
• Psychotic disorders: Schizophrenia
• Concurrent disorders: Addictions and substance abuse
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (CBT)

• Is a type of talking treatment that focuses on how your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes
affect your feelings and behavior, and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different
problems.
• It combines cognitive therapy and behavior therapy.
LEARNING DISABILITY

• Is a classification that includes several areas of functioning in which a person has

difficulty learning in a typical manner, usually caused by an unknown factor
• Unknown factor in disorder that affect the brain’s ability to receive and process info.
• This disorder can make it problematic for a person to learn as quickly or in same way as
someone who is not affected by a leaning disabilty
DEFINITION

• Learning Disability: a heterogeneous group of disorders manifested by significant

difficulties in the acquisition and use of listening, speaking, reading, writing, reasoning
abilities
SPECIFIC LEARNING
DISABILITIES
AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER
• Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a hearing problem that affects about 3%–5% of school-
aged children. Kids with this condition, also known as central auditory processing disorder (CAPD),
can't understand what they hear in the same way other kids do. This is because their ears and brain
don't fully coordinate.
• Auditory processing disorder (APD) is a term that refers to problems in how the brain understands
speech. The sounds may be loud and clear. But people with APD don’t pick up on the subtle
differences between them.
• For example, they may not recognize the difference between cat, that, and bat. The
words seventy and seventeen may sound the same. Words can also get scrambled, so the question
“how are the chair and couch alike” might sound like “how a cow and hair are like.”
DYSGRAPHIA

• Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder of written expression that impairs writing ability

and fine motor skills. It is a learning disability that affects children and adults, and
interferes with practically all aspects of the writing process, including spelling, legibility,
word spacing and sizing, and expression.
• Dysgraphia symptoms typically change over time. Children with dysgraphia generally
have trouble with the mechanics of writing and exhibit other fine-motor impairments,
while dysgraphia in adolescents and adults manifests as difficulties with grammar, syntax,
comprehension, and generally putting thoughts on paper.