The therapeutic community and new roles for clinical psychologists.

Abstract

"The psychologist in the therapeutic community, as in many other settings, does formal class teaching with psychology interns, nurses, psychiatric technicians and other student and staff personnel in such subject areas as psychopathology and group psychotherapy and other group techniques. He also provides community education through talks to lay groups." The psychologist may have an administrative role; as a team member he may have the role of assistant team leader, or of acting team leader in the psychiatrist's absence.

Behavior therapy and the therapist-patient relationship.

“…Within the framework of this functional analysis of interpersonal relationships, the community mental health center movement (Smith & Hobbs, 1966) and the therapeutic community orientation (Jarvis & Nelson, 1966) are eminently desirable and workable. There is a move away from the conditions of social isolation that often prevail in institutions and an emphasis on behavioral deficiencies being remedied and sustained in the context of social relationships.…”

Training Clinical Researchers in Psychology.

“…nal Professional Psychology and considerable discussion of the report of the National Council on Graduate Education in Psychology, which called for independent professional schools of psychology (Matulef & Rothenberg, 1968); and finally the president of APA sounded the possible appropriate death knell for clinical psychology as we now know it (Albee, 1970). In between, a large number of soul-searching articles on how to train a clinical psychologist, and what he is (and isn't) or should be (and shouldn't be), have been published; for example, in the last five years the following references have been published in the American Psychologist: Thelen and Ewing (1970); Knott (1969); Arnhoff and Jenkins (1969); Schofield (1969); Hersch (1969); Albee (1968); Peterson (1968); Brown and Long (1968); Bergin, Garfield, and Thompson (1967); Mariner (1967); Tyler and Speisman (1966); Jarvis and Nelson (1966); Garfield (1966). A sense of dejd vu and bored skepticism are understandably the most likely responses to any further contribution to this area.…”