Organizational Psychology

Paper Summary:

The paper reviews the role that consultation psychological services can play in organizations, particularly as it may apply to facilitating organizational movement towards increased strategic success. As a case example, this paper uses a mental health organization to demonstrate the role, or roles, that consultation psychology can play within the organization. Specifically, the case example holds that a director of mental health services for an organization makes a request for consultation psychology services to her organization. The request is for consultation psychology services that focus on the issue of gender and ethnic factors that may influence or impede organizational movement towards strategic success. This paper explores the aspects of consultation as it applies to issues of ethnicity and gender that may be critical for a mental health organization consultation.

Outline:
Introduction
II. Clinical Psychology
III. Organizational and Industrial Psychology
Consultation Psychology
IV. Relationship Between the Fields and the Methods
V. Case Example
VI. Conclusions

From the Paper:

"Central procedures and tools in providing clinical psychological services include psychological assessments and psychotherapy. Other typical methods utilized by clinical psychologists include research, teaching, consulting, forensic examinations and program development. Clinical psychology is a professional practice developed around the time of World War One. A licensed clinical psychologist is able to provide such psychological services as psychotherapy and assessments, conduct psychological research, provide psychology based consultations to schools and business and provide expert testimony on the area of forensic psychology."

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