About, sources and safeguards

Clinical Psychology Learning Lab is an independent educational web application for undergraduate and postgraduate psychology students, trainees, educators and researchers.

Source text

The learning architecture follows the three parts and fifteen chapters of:

Plante, T. G. (2005). Contemporary clinical psychology (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.

This application is not an official Wiley product, has not been endorsed by Thomas G. Plante, and is not a digital edition of the textbook. It does not contain the book's text, tables, figures, case narratives, instructor materials or examination items, and the PDF of the book is not distributed. Short references to the book's concepts and terminology are used for educational commentary. Students should read the textbook itself.

How content is labelled

Textbook concept

An idea, framework or term that the textbook covers, explained here in original words.

Original elaboration

Explanations, examples, diagrams, cases and questions written for this lab. They extend the textbook but are not claims made by its author.

Contemporary update

Information added because practice, classification or regulation has changed since 2005. Each is tied to a source in the reference library, checked on the date shown.

Historical context

Material that describes the field as it stood in or before 2005 — for example, US managed-care debates or earlier test editions — kept for understanding and not presented as current practice.

Indian context · verify

Pointers relevant to practice in India. These are orientation notes, not legal advice; confirm details against the official Act, rules and Rehabilitation Council of India notices.

Evidence rules followed

• No citations, study results, effect sizes, psychometric properties or clinical cut-offs have been invented.
• A screening score is never described as a diagnosis.
• Approaches are not presented as having equal empirical support; evidence notes say where support is stronger, weaker or contested.
• Where something could not be verified, it is marked “Verification required” rather than guessed.

Assessment instruments and copyright

The instrument catalogue publishes factual metadata only. No items, response forms, stimuli, norms or scoring tables are reproduced — including for instruments whose developers state that no permission is needed — so the site cannot be mistaken for a test-administration tool. Proprietary tests such as intelligence scales and personality inventories are described in general terms only.

Privacy

• No accounts, cookies, analytics, advertising or third-party requests. Fonts, icons and diagrams are served from this site.
• Optional progress tracking uses your browser's local storage, which is not encrypted. See Progress settings.
• Reasoning boxes in modules and cases are never saved or transmitted. Please do not type real client information into them.
• When JavaScript is off, quiz answers are checked by the server and immediately discarded; they are not logged or stored.

Clinical safeguards

This is an educational resource. It is not a diagnostic service, does not provide psychotherapy or individual treatment advice, does not establish a therapeutic relationship, and does not replace supervision, current clinical guidelines, professional codes or the law. Topics such as suicide risk are discussed in careful educational terms; no part of this site attempts to determine whether any person is safe. Anyone at risk should contact local emergency services. In India, the national Tele-MANAS helpline is 14416 — confirm current details on the official Tele-MANAS website.

Currency

The textbook was published in 2005. Since then DSM-5 (2013) and DSM-5-TR (2022) replaced DSM-IV-TR; ICD-11 came into effect in 2022; several tests cited in the book have newer editions; and India enacted the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017. Modules flag these changes in “Currency and verification” notes. Content was last reviewed on 2026-10-19.

Technical notes

Built with PHP, HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript. Content is stored as JSON files. There is no database. Core content is fully readable with JavaScript disabled.