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Psychology has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 1887. From the start it has emphasized both scientific rigor and practical application, not always at the same time. The first professor, James McKeen Cattell, was an advocate of scientific method and careful data collection (with expensive apparatus).
Clinical psychology has grown tremendously since 1896, the year Lightner Witmer founded the world’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania (Reisman, 1976).
- Michael Alessandri, Lynda A. Heiden, Melisa Dunbar-Welter
- 1995
- Program Philosophy
- Admission to The Clinical Program
- Accreditation
The clinical training program, nested in the Psychology Department, is a clinical scienceprogram intended to provide preparation for research/academic careers in Clinical Psychology. Clinical training (in assessment, diagnosis, and psychotherapy) is seen as an integral part of the education of highly qualified, creative clinical scientists. Neverth...
Ordinarily, students apply for admission to the clinical program when they apply for admission to the graduate program; they do so by indicating their interest in clinical training at that time. Admission to the graduate program carries the presumption of admission to the clinical program for those students who have indicated such an interest on th...
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Jan 1, 2014 · Mark Vander Weg & Jerry Suls Ph.D. 2616 Accesses. 3 Citations. Abstract. It is impossible to understand the history of clinical health psychology without first describing some developments in mainstream clinical psychology, psychiatry, and medicine in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Mark Vander Weg, Jerry Suls
- 2014
Abstract. This reprinted article originally appeared in The Psychological Clinic, 1907, I. Witmer 's original article describes the development of the psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania and explains the function of the clinic in providing conjoint physical and mental examinations. This article illustrates the operation of ...
The roots of the broader field of clinical child psychology date to the founding of the first psychology clinic by Lightner Witmer at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896. The first professional society dedicated to this discipline, the Section on Clinical Child Psychology, was founded in 1962 by Alan Ross.
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Most observers trace the beginnings of clinical psychology to Lightner Witmer’s psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1896. From that modest beginning, as the article indicates, clinical psychology has grown to its present status as a core mental health profession, composed of more than 100 000 doctoral level
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