{"id":6990,"date":"2022-03-07T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T07:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.upseducation.in\/update\/?p=6990"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:28:52","slug":"m-phil-clinical-psychology-and-ugc-net-psychology-entrance-exam-important-tips-books-and-guidance-ups-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.upseducation.in\/update\/m-phil-clinical-psychology-and-ugc-net-psychology-entrance-exam-important-tips-books-and-guidance-ups-education\/","title":{"rendered":"M.Phil Clinical Psychology and UGC NET Psychology Entrance Exam Important tips, books, and guidance \u2014UPS Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The interesting thing in our life never fails to fascinate us, whether any interesting book, interesting, movie or any interesting subject. Talking about the subject, it is intriguing to discuss one of the most interesting subjects of all time, which is psychology. Psychology has gained immense popularity in the last 2 decades, although its formal roots began in 1879. Psychology is defined as the science of behaviour and cognitive process; distinctively speaking, it is the scientific study of mind and behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many schools offer psychology as a subject for students in the higher classes. After school, one needs to do a bachelor\u2019s in psychology or opt for psychology as a subject during graduation.  The position of psychologist can only be valid when one should pursue a master\u2019s in psychology. In many institutions, it is not mandatory to study psychology in school or get a bachelor\u2019s degree in college, depending on the norms of the institution, but anyone who desires to become a psychologist has to complete their post-graduation in psychology. There are various specializations like clinical, industrial, sports, community, counselling, school psychology, criminal, etc, in which person can do their specialization in psychology for better scope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article mentioned the Important Books, Tips, and some special guidance for M.Phil in Clinical Psychology and UGC NET\/JRF Psychology entrance. For further details and guidance, please look at the important link section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MPhil in Clinical Psychology:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There cannot be a perfect guide to know, how to prepare for MPhil Clinical Psychology Entrance but, the following guidelines prove useful if someone is looking to be an RCI registered Clinical Psychologist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The preparation of MPhil Clinical Psychology relies on universities\/institutions as they follow different rules, but the syllabus is the same for almost all entrance exams. Falling in love with Psychology is important if you want to crack the MPhil Clinical Psychology Entrance Examination. Self-made notes, prepared during post-graduation through various books and other sources are one of the best recourses for the MPhil Clinical Psychology Entrance Exam. One may ask the mentor to help during the preparation of the notes. Forming the right strategies is the key to success in cracking any entrance examination. The following points will help an individual to make the right strategies for MPhil Clinical Psychology Entrance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand the Syllabus of the Entrance Exam<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Understanding the syllabus to put the effort in the right direction is very important. Make sure that your notes follow the latest guidelines. One may also use last year\u2019s question papers to understand the syllabus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important Books for MPhil Clinical Psychology Entrance Preparation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we discussed earlier in this article one\u2019s own hand-written notes are a good choice because it\u2019s difficult to read 10-15 books within a fixed timeframe with MCQs practice, but if you have the option of a book only, then you should read the following book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Introduction to Psychology (8th-10th Edition): <\/a>Rita Atkinson & Hilgard, Introduction to Psychology (6th Edition<\/a>):<\/a> Ciccarelli & Misra, I<\/a>ntroduction to Psychology (7th Edition):<\/a> Morgan & King, or I<\/a>ntroduction to Psychology (5th Edition):<\/a> Baron\/Misra (any one out 4)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Social Psychology: <\/a>Baron Robert<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Theories of Personality:<\/a> Hall, Lindzey, and Campbell<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Human Development: <\/a>Papalia and Sally Olds<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Bio Psyc<\/a>hology:<\/a> Arvind Otta<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Cognitive Psychology:<\/a> Robinson-Riegler<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Statistics:<\/a> Quinn McNemar \/ Minium<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Research Method: <\/a>James Goodwin \/ Lewin & Fox \/ A. K. Singh<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Psychological Testing: <\/a>Ronald Jay Cohen and Mark E. Swerdlik<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Abnormal Psychology:<\/a> Sarason and Sarason \/ R. Comer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022    Clinical Psychology:<\/a> Alan Carr \/ Hecker and Geoffrey<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For practice (MCQs): Psychology Question Bank<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n