Trends and Issues in Clinical Psychology, from the Perspective of Empirical Research

Abstract

    This article reviews the current trends in clinical psychological studies, published between July 2013 and June 2014.  First, this article provides a brief overview of the research that was published from the “clinical” category of the 56th annual meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology, and cited characteristic keywords for each age division.  Second, the author reviews the papers on “clinical psychology” that were published in six academic journals.  The author found that (1) in psychological maladjustment/psychiatric symptoms, research on depression was the most common, alongside rumination, stress, and burnout ; (2) there were less studies dealing with scale development ; (3) cognitive behavior therapy, behavior analysis, and ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) were the major approaches in intervention programs and psychotherapies.