Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

Practical Applications. Particularly in the treatment of the mentally ill.

Unlike the rest of Psychology it focuses on how we are different from each other rather than generalising findings to everybody.

Disadvantages

It is often lacking in scientific rigour.

Research methodology can lead to subjective findings.

It lacks generalisability.

 The findings can only be applied to a small group of people.

Research is often time consuming and expensive.