Expanding enrollments in professional psychology

Kunka, Jeffrey M.; Robinson, Carl

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“…It is instructive to note recent comments by Kunka and Robinson (1982) who observe that A quiet revolution in the condition of professional psychology has been in progress for about a decade now. It reached the Chicago metropolitan area five years ago, when the first of its three free-standing professional schools was founded.…”

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Doctor of Psychology degree: From hibernation to reality.

McConnell¹

1984

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Since the beginning of the American Psychological Association (APA), there have been three explicit models of psychologists: scientist, scientist-professional, and professional. In the late 1940s there was a need for a model of clinical training that the scientist-professional, or Boulder Model, fulfilled. Over the years the emphasis on training in the science of psychology seemed to increase at the expense oftraining in the applied aspects of psychology. The need was increasingly voiced for a service-oriented training program with a clear professional identity. These pressures culminated in the most recent training conference convened by APA at Vail, Colorado, in 1973. The Vail conferees asserted that the development of psychological science had sufficiently matured to justify creation of explicit professional programs. The Doctor of Psychology model and rationale are explicated and essential ingredients of currently operating PsyD programs are covered. Future developments in professional programs, credentialing and designation, and the critical interface with societal needs are explored.

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Section: Free-standing Professional Schoolsmentioning

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Doctor of Psychology degree: From hibernation to reality.

McConnell¹

1984

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…No accurate figures have yet been published on this matter, but we have some scattered data. Kunka and Robinson (1982) report their assessment of the output of three professional schools in the Chicago area alone as likely to run between 80 and 90 annually as the size of their student body stabilizes. My own estimates, prepared for an APA task force of Division 12 suggests that a very conservative estimate of the output of these schools as running about 1200 annually.…”

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The education of health psychologists: Quality counts--numbers are dangerous.

Maher¹

1983

Health Psychology

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When Stephen Weiss invited me to be the first speaker at this Conference, he suggested that I might attempt to view the orderly development of health psychology from a broad perspective, including a perspective on the future of psychology in general-as well as the likely relationship of health psychology to other fields of the behavioral sciences. Mature reflection, coming as it so often does after too long a delay, has convinced me that this mandate can only be properly addressed by looking at some specificsspecifics drawn from our recent history and, most particularly, from current observations on the economic state of psychology.A study, however cursory, of the contents of the blue book that has been provided for delegates to this meeting immediately conveys the impression of the emergence of a new direction for psychology, enthusiastically seized by some individuals of initiative, growing rapidly in the number of people becoming involved in it, and, above all, pervaded by a theme of optimism about the extent and attractions of the horizons before us. I hope that this impression is correct for it will mean that the perhaps sober tone of what is to follow may serve to provoke discussion rather than daunt the energies that will surely be required for the tasks ahead.Let me turn first to a scrutiny of the current state of affairs in the training, recruitment, and employment of doctoral level psychologists generally. I do so for two reasons: one is that the present state is the outcome of policies that have been followed within the graduate schools of the country and our national association, and hence may serve to teach us something about the effects of such policies; the other is that our judgments about the employment opportunities for doctoral psychologists in the forthcoming This is an edited version of the paper.delivered.

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Expanding enrollments in professional psychology

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Doctor of Psychology degree: From hibernation to reality.

Doctor of Psychology degree: From hibernation to reality.

The education of health psychologists: Quality counts--numbers are dangerous.

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