Human rights: Giving clinical psychology a backbone

Butchard, S. & Greenhill, E. (2015). Human rights: Giving clinical psychology a backbone. Clinical Psychology Forum, 1(276), 16-22. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2015.1.276.16

Abstract

Human rights and clinical psychology need each other. Clinical psychology’s core values are highly congruent with the human rights based approach (HRBA) recently adopted by the Care Quality Commission. Conversely, psychologists understand organisational challenges, can operationalise practical delivery of an HRBA and can develop much needed evaluation strategies for values-based practice.