| Abstract: | Society is in need of and has demanded psychological services; there is an increase in concern with the professional problems inherent in offering services to the public. A 6-point program is offered: (a) Experienced clinicians are needed to teach university courses in psychotherapy or diagnostic testing. (b) Full professional responsibility must await postdoctoral experience. (c) Psychology must take active steps to encourage high school students and undergraduates to seek psychology as a vocation. (d) New measures must be taken to develop a genuine "research attitude," if productivity in the clinical as well as other areas of psychology is to be increased. (e) A new journal is needed that will provide space for airing clinical professional problems, clinical case studies, clinical theoretical articles, and similar material. (f) Psychological organizations should take heed of the needs and demands of the service-oriented psychologists, "to place high on the agenda problems of professionalization." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
