SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN CLINICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Toward assessing some relations between clinical and environmental psy chology, this article focuses on problems of mutual interest for schol ars in both subfields. Broad definitions of both clinical psychology ( i.e., as a content area dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of me ntal disorders as well as a more general method for research and pract ice) and environmental psychology (i.e., as a content area that treats the environment as consisting of physical, interpersonal, and sociocu ltural aspects as well as a more general perspective on all organism-e nvironment functioning) are used. Empirical studies described include the relocation of a psychiatric therapeutic community (physical aspect of environment), social networks and people-place relationships in bo ys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (interpersonal aspect of environment), and systemic issues in families practicing open vers us closed adoption (sociocultural aspect of environment). General impl ications for problem, theory, method, and practice are also discussed.