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The clinical method is used by psychologists, psychiatrists, and teachers to understand individuals' problems like fears, anxieties, and maladjustments. It involves interviewing the individual, gathering information, formulating a hypothesis, making a diagnosis, and creating a treatment plan. The diagnosis process starts with identifying the problem behavior, meeting with parents/teachers, conducting a physical exam, compiling a case history on personal information, environment, and developmental history to investigate the causes of abnormal behavior. The clinical method allows an in-depth study of individuals and their relationships and environments to help maximize their adjustment. However, it is a lengthy and costly method that requires trained specialists and lacks generalizability.

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Clinical Method

The clinical method is used by psychologists, psychiatrists, and teachers to understand individuals' problems like fears, anxieties, and maladjustments. It involves interviewing the individual, gathering information, formulating a hypothesis, making a diagnosis, and creating a treatment plan. The diagnosis process starts with identifying the problem behavior, meeting with parents/teachers, conducting a physical exam, compiling a case history on personal information, environment, and developmental history to investigate the causes of abnormal behavior. The clinical method allows an in-depth study of individuals and their relationships and environments to help maximize their adjustment. However, it is a lengthy and costly method that requires trained specialists and lacks generalizability.

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Clinical method

The clinical method is also called case study method. It is


used by clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric social works and
teachers in child guidance clinics or mental hygiene centers or in
ordinary school situations. Generally, we use this method when we
want to understand the causes and sources of people’s fears, anxieties,
worries, and obsessions, their personal, social, educational and
vocational maladjustments. . The main objective of this method is to
study individual to detect and diagnose his/her specific problems and
to suggest therapeutic measures to rehabilitate him/her in his/her
environment. The clinical method is used by clinical psychologists,
psychiatrists and teachers in child guidance clinics, metal hygiene
centers and in ordinary school situations. This method is used in
studying the patients who are suffering from mental and behavioral
disturbances .
Clinical method steps:
It involves the following steps:
1. Interview
2. Information gathering
3. A hypothesis formulate
4. Diagnosis are made
5. Planned a treatment program
Diagnosis process includes the following steps:
Statement of the problem
When an individual suffer from a highly critical behavior disorder or
social maladjustment, he is referred to the psychological clinic. For
instance, child is very obstinate and aggressive in her or his attitude.
This negative behavior is influencing upon her or his academic
performance. This is a behavioral disorder and it requires diagnosis
and treatment afterward.
Meeting in the psychological clinic:
When a mentally ill individual referred to a psychological clinic, the
clinical staff meet the parents, and teachers of the children to
discuss the behavioral disorder of a child. As a result of this short
time meeting, the problem is identified and the formal diagnosis
process starts.
Physical checkup:
The individual suffering from a behavioral problem must be made to
go through a detailed physical check up by the psychiatrist to
determine whether the behavior exhibited is of a functional or of
an organic nature.
Making out the case history:
Diagnosis process start from the case history form an individual.
Case history helps the psychologist to find the responsible factors for
the present behavior.
Personnel information:
The psychologist collects the personnel data of the individual to
explore the root causes of behavioral disorder .the personnel
information of the individual include his name, father name, birth
palace, address ,blood group, religion, caste, and nature of his
abnormal behavior.
Environmental background:
Environmental background includes information about the individual
s parents, his other family members, their relationship with each
other, the educational and economical status of the family. And the
incidents which may happen in the family.
Development history:
At this particular phase of clinical method the psychologist critically
understood and evaluates the history of growth and development
process. He also collect data about the physical, mental health,
education, occupation, social and emotional adjustment and set
behavior etc.
History of exceptional behavior:
At this stage of clinical inquiry, all the information regarding the
development of behavior in questioning up to the present stage are
objectively collected. This information play vital role in investigating
the causes of abnormal behavior.
Characteristics:
Clinical method of educational psychology plays an important role in
investigating the individual psychological and adjustment problems
of the individual. Here are some silent characteristics of clinical
method:
1. The clinic method is applicable to an individual. It focuses the
individual case study.
2. The individual coming to the psychologist has some sort of
psychological problems.
3. The primary aim of clinical method is to grand maximum
adjustment and welfare to the disturbed individuals.
4. The clinical method is an art as well as a science .it mean that
everybody cannot treat every patient. It requires special
training to diagnose the problem and disorders of the
individual.
5. The clinical method is an intensive, and multi approach study of
a single individual.
6. The clinical method emphasis on helping.
Merits
1. An in-depth study can be possible using this method as it studies
the whole case in relation to the environment.
2. This method is very effective in the study of both the individual
and social group.
3. Variety of cases
4. Cause and effect relationship
5. Guidance and counselling
6. Individualized method
7. Diagnostic use
8. Special learning disabilities
9. Personality adjustment
10..Scientific approach
Demerits
1 lack of applications
2 lengthy method
3 costly method
4 lack of trained persons
5 element of subjectivity
6 lack of verification
7. This method is difficult to replicate .replication is a key concern in
any behavioral condition, but this method lacks this features.
8. Lack of validity and reliability
9. Did not detect early cases.
10. Time consuming.
11. Ca t’ generalized the result to the wider population.

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