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103TC2200XClinical Child & Adolescent Psychologist

Grouping
Behavioral Health & Social Service Providers
Classification
Psychologist
Specialization
Clinical Child & Adolescent
Section
Individual

Definition

A psychologist who develops and applies scientific knowledge to the delivery of psychological services to infants, toddlers, children and adolescents within their social context. Of particular importance to the specialty of clinical child psychology is an understanding of the basic psychological needs of children and adolescents, and how the family and other social contexts influence the socio-emotional adjustment, cognitive development, behavioral adaptation and health status of children and adolescents.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Psychologist

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

NUCC taxonomy25.1