| Abstract: | Asked 9 distinguished psychologists to comment on psychology and the future. Predictions for the future included (a) program evaluation research will expand; (b) students preparing or the practice of psychology will increasingly seek the PsyD degree; (c) psychology will be more responsive to real-life crises such as pollution, energy resource depletion, urban decay, and international conflict, and will receive more federal support to the extent that it can contribute to the solution of such problems; (d) continuing education is likely to flourish; (e) the discipline of psychology will become still more fractionated; and (f) the future will bring a merging of humanistic and scientific orientations in psychology. (19 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
