Flying Psychologists.

Asks whether there might be a group of flying psychologists that would be interested in forming an association, formal or informal, and whether the APA has a list of psychologists who are pilots. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists in medical schools.

Describes the results of a survey conducted by the Committee on Psychology in Medical Schools for the Education and Training Board of the American Psychological Association, utilizing 84 reports from medical schools in 1967-1969 period. Psychology's growth in medical school has followed no standard pattern, but has developed in unique fashion at each school as a function of local constellations of factors. The great expansion of psychology in medical schools has occurred in the last 2 decades, but the period of rapid growth has now ended. While psychology is still most often based within the department of psychiatry, greater diversity of locations is found in schools where psychology was established more recently. Teaching is a major function of medical school psychologists. Their main teaching contribution is to medical education, but they are also involved at all levels of psychological education. Research, which covers the full range of psychological interests, and clinical services, which are beginning to reach out into the community, are the other main functions of medical school psychologists. The satisfactions found in the medical school as a professional environment relate to the vast array of clinical populations, research facilities, and disciplines available there. Dissatisfactions are primarily a result of inadequate recognition as an independent discipline. Overwhelmingly, medical school psychologists desire a more autonomous position for psychology, most often through the mechanism of an independent department of psychology. Other mechanisms recommended are the behavioral sciences department and the "single faculty model" in which 1 university department provides psychological training to all the schools of the university. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Training in Psychotherapy for Psychologists: Recommendations of Clinical Psychologists.

This article discusses the current debate on the subject of psychotherapy training for psychologists and how it tends to concern itself with rather broad philosophical issues and matters of role definition. As part of a larger study, data not previously reported were derived from three questions which asked for opinions about ideal patterns of psychotherapy training for psychologists. This brief report suggests the desirability of careful stratification of the group of clinical psychologists in future opinion sampling and when policy recommendations are being developed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Subdoctoral Psychologists.

Comments on P. J. Woods' article on APA's concern with the Master's degree in psychology (American Psychologist, 1971, 26, 696-707). The present author suggests that before many more hours are expended in deciding whether subdoctoral psychologists should be called psychologists, the assumption that clinical practitioners holding a doctorate in psychology are better equipped than those trained at the master's level should be demonstrated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists in medical schools.

Describes developments at a medical school on which H. A. Witkin et al (1972) based their article on approaches to the problem of autonomous organization and function of psychologists in medical schools. The Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center established the Department of Psychology and Sciences of Society. The Department is independent and autonomous; it embraces all psychologists and social scientists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists as psychotherapists.

Comments on K. Humphreys's paper (see record 83-28417) on clinical psychologists as psychotherapists. L. R. Lieberman agrees with Humphreys that psychiatrists have abandoned doing psychotherapy but contends that it is not a good idea for psychologists to turn the practice of therapy over to those without the breadth of training implied by the Boulder model. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Certification of Psychologists.

Borgatta (American Psychologist, 1959, 14, 296-297) has correctly noted that psychologists cannot consult for a fee, even though the consultation may be with a firm or agency rather than with individuals. Two considerations were involved in our adoption of this policy. The first was that of public welfare. Recent cases reported to the APA ethics committee indicate that the small industrial firm may be as much at the mercy of the charlatan as is the individual layman. This, added to the difficulty of differentiating between various forms of consultation, convinced us that it was neither desirable nor practical to attempt to control the use of the title in certain kinds of consulting without controlling it in others. APA has adopted its present policies only after states have accumulated experience with several kinds of legislation, including the permissive certification Borgatta advocates. On the basis of this experience we believe certification of the general title achieves the maximum protection of the public consonant with noninfringement upon other professional groups. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obligation of Psychologists.

Contends that while Brayfield's paper (American Psychologist, 1967, 22, 182-186) was a most commendable effort, its emphasis was solely on the role of organized psychology in public affairs. The present author feels that beyond the role of organized psychology, psychologist members of society have a further obligation: to contribute to social, national, and world affairs by helping to resolve critical and major problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Training of Psychologists.

Suggests that psychologists concerned about the training of psychologists generate some testable hypotheses about the effects of different kinds of training, match or otherwise control variation in graduate departments at student and staff levels, and start treating each graduate school as the experimental group it should be in the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

MA Psychologists Speak.

Comments on the recent joint report of the APA and CSPA committees on legislation. The committees recommend, among other things, that the title "psychologist" be reserved for the PhD alone. The author does not believe that the PhD training is either so relevant or so crucial that the non-PhD should be excluded from the opportunity to compete on an equal level (i.e., in a position as a "psychologist"). PhD training is too varied and inconsistent from institution to institution to consider it to be the "key" to the understanding of human behavior. It is argued that the proposed legislation is based on the unwarranted assumption that a "good psychologist" is a person with a PhD degree in psychology. The author makes his own suggestions for inclusion of MA level psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists and cartoonists.

"To assess one component of the public image of the psychologist… the present writers have theorized that a content or thematic analysis of cartoons might be relevant." An analysis of 4760 cartoons contained in 6 popular magazines for the years 1949 and 1959 led to the conclusions that: (a) considerable overlap in public image does occur between psychologists, psychiatrists, and other psychologically oriented personnel; (b) psychology as a science and as a profession does not appear to excite the public imagination and generate public interest; (c) psychology has kept pace with members of various other professions and occupations; (d) the psychologist does not seem to have any distinctive identifying symbol which he can easily claim as his own. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Program for Psychologists in Dentistry.

Comments on the article by Richard I. Evans (see record 1966-07171-001) on psychologists working within the field of dentistry. The article by Evans failed to mention a program being sponsored by the American Association of Dental Schools that seeks to give advanced graduate students in educational psychology an opportunity to work on problems within the field of dental education, and the current author offers highlights of this new program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists in Canadian medical schools.

Conducted a national survey of 67 psychologists holding academic appointments in 16 Canadian medical schools. The number of psychologists, their professional activities and work attitudes, and the organizational models of psychology at the medical schools were examined. Results indicate major differences in the average number of psychologists at Canadian and US medical schools. However, among the 2 groups of psychologists, a number of strong similarities in work activities and attitudes were found. (10 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists in the ivory tower.

C. A. Kiesler's (1977) article on the training of psychiatrists and psychologists points out that psychologists have more training in research; contrary to Kiesler's view, however, such training does not necessarily make them better practitioners. The American Psychological Association must encourage training programs that emphasize practice rather than research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Let's Be Psychologists.

In the February, 1956 "American Psychologist" three viewpoints were expressed concerning the relationships between psychology and psychiatry. That something should be done is well agreed upon by most psychologists; however, I have the uneasy feeling that there is a lack of agreement as to how we should bear arms for the common cause. The psychologist prides himself in being able to observe events in an objective fashion. My proposition is this: let's be psychologists. Instead of talking about the hypothesized issues, let us investigate (observe, measure, test) the issues. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists in medical schools in 1997.

The activities, income, and medical staff membership and limitations on that membership for psychologists working in U.S. medical school settings in 1997 were examined. A total of 1,938 psychologists responded to a survey conducted by the Research Office of the American Psychological Association, in conjunction with the Association of Medical School Psychologists. Some of the most salient findings were that (a) the largest number of psychologists was involved in research activities, (b) just over half of medical school psychologists were required to generate all or part of their own income through clinical work and research, and (c) the majority of these psychologists were members of a medical staff but were not extended full medical staff privileges. These and other results are discussed in the context of academic rank, tenure status, and other relevant factors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Bibliographies of Eminent Psychologists.

A preliminary list of distinguished psychologists of the past is constructed, based on those persons who were accorded the greatest number of pages in Boring's (1) and Murphy's (2) histories of psychology. To these the author added the names of two recently deceased psychologists who seem to them to merit inclusion in this list and whose bibliographies have been published (Thorndike and Lewin). The author feels that Hull also belongs to this group, but Hull's list of publications has not yet been compiled. Published bibliographies of all other persons on the list have been cited by Boring, and were used as sources for the data given. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists collaborating with clergy.

If a patient adheres to religious values and practices, should the treating psychologist get input from a clergyperson? How frequent is clergy–psychologist collaboration? What obstacles impede such collaboration? An exploratory survey questionnaire was sent to 200 clergy, 200 psychologists interested in religious issues, and 200 psychologists selected without regard to religious interests or values. Four themes were assessed: types of collaborative activities, frequency of collaboration, obstacles to collaboration, and ways to enhance collaboration. Strategies for promoting clergy–psychologist collaboration include challenging unidirectional referral assumptions, building trust through proximity and familiarity, and considering the importance of shared values and beliefs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)