I'd recommend just doing a straight psychology degree if you can, and specializing later, even if you have the choice of something more specialized now. Mainly cause I think it's crap you're expected to decided what you want to do so early on (how can you possibly know you'll want to work with adolescents when you still are an adolescent?), and you should stay as generalized as you can to start, but also because I think it's really important to have more general background in psychology before you go into clinical practice. I'm studying psychology, and I have a bit of clinical experience now from working at my mom's psychology clinic, and I'm finding that in all the areas I'm studying this term, there are clinical implications from the theory and research we're studying even when it's not directly clinical work. There's also implications from a lot of it just in how to interact with people more effectively even outside of clinical settings that aren't necessarily explicitly taught and wouldn't show up in more clinically oriented courses, but would be really helpful if you're counseling people. It's also important to know the research because there's going to be progress through your entire career, and to be a responsible clinician you need to keep up with at least what's most relevant to your particular practice (at least in the US, there are usually continuing education requirements, but the courses for that still aren't enough to really keep you up-to-date). Also, the more you understand about the theory behind what you're doing, the more you'll be able to adapt to individual clients, and thereby provide much better care than if you're relying more on following set protocols. When I've worked with PMHNPs (who basically have something like 2-3 years of clinical training, and no significant research background), I usually notice a huge difference in what they can do compared to a psychologist who's had undergraduate and graduate level psychology courses, and a lot of the time I can already talk circles around them just from what know from a few undergraduate psych courses and a few months of clinical experience, and I already pick up on things in session that they miss that are fairly important and such, so from that as well, I wouldn't recommend trying to find the shortest and most directly clinical path to clinical work.
What you'll study depends on the course, but you probably will study quite a bit of scientific research and case studies. It's not going to be just the couple of authors you mentioned though -- you'll be studying mainly recent work. You'll also usually be talking more about the real-world implications of the research, and how it applies in clinical settings and such, so it tends to be more interesting than when you're just expected to memorize stuff about historically significant work.
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