| Abstract: | "Academic or basic psychology and applied or professional psychology… have different goals and are appropriately judged by different criteria. Much confusion and pointless heat has resulted from judging applied activities by academic criteria and academic activities by applied criteria. Such confusion has been potentiated by failure to separate professional training from academic programs, a separation that would result in more efficient and competent training of both the professional and the basic research person. Rather than impoverishing psychology, separation of professional from academic training so that each group could focus sufficiently and in terms of its own criteria of excellence on its own goals should result in more rapid progress of both areas and a more productive, less conflictual, amount of cross-fertilization." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
