Paul W. Clement (1939–2014).

Abstract

Paul W. Clement was American psychology's quintessential "Renaissance Man." He was an archetypal scientist-practitioner, ever in the forefront of advancing psychology as a science, as a means of promoting human welfare and as a profession. His pioneering work in creating The Psychological Center at Fuller Seminary's Graduate School of Psychology, a comprehensive community clinic serving people across the life span and addressing the full range of severity in problems of living, was recognized in the American Psychologist as one of the two best examples in the country of how psychological services can be delivered to benefit the public. And his series of seminal papers summarizing client outcomes from nearly 50 years of independent practice sounded the trumpet for psychologists in independent practice to publish studies to help establish practice-based evidence on the effectiveness of psychotherapy.