As opposed to clinical practitioners, who search for individualistic understanding of human behavior, clinical researchers search for general truths about abnormality. the approach of clinical researchers is:

A nomothetic method

Explanation:A nomothetic method, refers to a conclusional statement that is taken from studying a pattern of a society at large , which may be just a single event , individual behaviours and experience.

Sociologist uses this method when they are dealing with large data from survey in order to make a quantitative statistical analysis.

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