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clinical psychology

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A branch of psychology with the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences

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noun

Meaning 2

the branch of psychology concerned with the treatment of abnormal mentation and behavior

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Broader terms: psychotherapy, psychotherapeutics, mental hygiene

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Across languages

Translations

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: عِلْم نَفْس سَرِيرِيّ (ʕilm nafs sarīriyy) — branch of psychology
  • Armenian: կլինիկական հոգեբանություն (klinikakan hogebanutʻyun) — branch of psychology
  • Azerbaijani: klinik psixologiya — branch of psychology
  • Bulgarian: клинична психология (klinična psihologija) — branch of psychology
  • Catalan: psicologia clínica — branch of psychology
  • Chinese Mandarin: 臨床心理學 /临床心理学 (línchuáng xīnlǐxué) — branch of psychology
  • Czech: klinická psychologie — branch of psychology
  • Danish: klinisk psykologi — branch of psychology
  • Dutch: klinische psychologie — branch of psychology
  • Esperanto: klinika psikologio — branch of psychology
  • Esperanto: klinika psiĥologio — branch of psychology
  • Estonian: kliiniline psühholoogia — branch of psychology
  • Finnish: kliininen psykologia — branch of psychology
  • French: psychologie clinique — branch of psychology
  • Galician: psicoloxía clínica — branch of psychology
  • German: Klinische Psychologie — branch of psychology
  • Greek: κλινική ψυχολογία (klinikí psychología) — branch of psychology
  • Hebrew: פסיכולוגיה קלינית — branch of psychology
  • Hindi: नैदानिक मनोविज्ञान (naidānik manovijñān) — branch of psychology
  • Hungarian: klinikai pszichológia — branch of psychology
  • Icelandic: klínísk sálfræði — branch of psychology
  • Indonesian: psikologi klinis — branch of psychology
  • Italian: psicologia clinica — branch of psychology
  • Japanese: 臨床心理学 (rinshō shinrigaku) — branch of psychology
  • Latvian: klīniskā psiholoģija — branch of psychology
  • Lithuanian: klininkinė psichologija — branch of psychology
  • Malay: psikologi klinikal — branch of psychology
  • Norwegian: klinisk psykologi — branch of psychology
  • Persian: روانشناسی بالینی — branch of psychology
  • Polish: psychologia kliniczna — branch of psychology
  • Portuguese: psicologia clínica — branch of psychology
  • Romanian: psihologie clinică — branch of psychology
  • Russian: клиническая психоло́гия (kliničeskaja psixológija) — branch of psychology
  • Serbo-Croatian: клиничка психологија — branch of psychology
  • Serbo-Croatian: klinička psihologija — branch of psychology
  • Slovak: klinická psychológia — branch of psychology
  • Slovene: klinična psihologija — branch of psychology
  • Spanish: psicología clínica — branch of psychology
  • Swedish: klinisk psykologi — branch of psychology
  • Thai: จิตวิทยาคลินิก (jìt wíttáyaa klínìk) — branch of psychology
  • Turkish: klinik psikoloji — branch of psychology
  • Ukrainian: клінічна психологія (klinična psyxolohija) — branch of psychology
  • Vietnamese: tâm lý học lâm sàng — branch of psychology