Clinical Psychology provides us with the tools to research, understand, and treat mental conditions and other conditions. It can also help us to improve our potential and development as human beings.
The learned helplessness theory explains that a person behaves passively because they’ve learned to do so. Thus, the person thinks they can’t do anything when confronted with the various kinds of adverse situations. Even though they could, in fact, overcome…
The cognitive and affective empathy test by I. Fernández Pinto, B. López-Pérez, and F. José García Abad is a complete, easy-to-apply instrument. Since its publication in 2008, it stands as a highly valid and reliable resource to study the dimension…
Analyzing personality is one of the most fascinating and complex challenges in psychology. In order to accomplish this objective, psychologists and researchers created different evaluation instruments, all inspired by different schools. In this article, we’ll be talking about the thematic…
Hallucinations are psychological phenomena that arouse great interest due to their uniqueness and relatively low prevalence. They’re present in various health conditions and the way in which they manifest also varies. This article is about the many different types of…
The psychopathy checklist or PCL-R is an international reference instrument to identify the presence of psychopathy in an individual. Above all, researchers use it within prison inmates, but it’s also useful in the clinical and forensic field. This is a…
Pathological concern is like a room that gradually runs out of oxygen. You’re trapped in a maze with no exit, a house without windows. It’s like walking into a slope without understanding why you’re not able to turn around. As…
Depression is one of the most common mood disorders all over the world. It’s also one of the most-often treated problems in psychology and psychiatry clinics. It can affect people of any age. Also, its symptoms vary depending on the…
You have a specific phobia when your fear or dislike of a situation becomes paralyzing. The fear of needles, for instance, interferes with the daily lives of those affected by it. The limitations are many as they refuse to undergo…
People with delayed sleep phase syndrome are unable to adapt to socially established sleep-wake schedules. Due to the lack of information and understanding of this disorder, people around them often consider them lazy. The sleep-wake pattern follows a circadian rhythm;…
According to the WHO, more and more people are diagnosed with depression every day. Thus, it isn’t surprising that you know at least one person who’s currently dealing with this condition. When a person begins to feel blue, not only…
The relationship between psychopathology and creativity has been the subject of much interest for hundreds of years. For instance, Aristotle already knew that the most outstanding scientists, artists, and other highly creative people had a tendency to melancholy. In fact,…
Suffering from a depression relapse can be frustrating and scary. If that weren’t bad enough, the relapse is usually accompanied by a sense of guilt and blame. Statistics show that depression relapse is very common; approximately 80 percent of patients…
How would you like it if one day you woke up speaking your native language but with a foreign accent? If you did, then it would be due to what scientists call foreign accent syndrome (SAE) or pseudo-foreign accent syndrome.…
Untreated depression that becomes chronic and doesn’t go away for years can change your brain. Recent studies indicate that the alterations caused by this psychological condition affect brain structures such as the prefrontal cortex, which in turn impairs the patient’s…
Cognitive deficits in schizophrenia can be severe and are often associated with functional problems. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to identify what’s causing the deficits without a concrete neuropsychological profile. It’s important to note that these deficits don’t seem to…
Although the terms we’re going to use in this article are part of our daily lives, for the most part, people don’t use them properly or accurately. This is because the concept of disability has changed over time and society…
As people get old, they start to see changes in almost all their habits. Some often say that people, as they grow old, become more maniacal with things such as food, cleaning, sleep, etc. Why does this happen, though? In…
Encopresis is one of the two so-called elimination disorders, along with enuresis. These two conditions involve the inability to hold in feces and urine at ages in which a child should be able to do that. Encopresis is specifically the inability…
Is pleasure the reason for addiction? Drug dependency is a problem that affects more and more people every day. However, the reason for substance abuse may not be directly related to drugs but to other processes instead. Today, we’re going…
Although most of us think only of depression, there are many other mood disorders. In this article, we’ll try to differentiate and deepen on some that we often forget: mood disorders other than those that involve major depression. (The only…