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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). While once associated merely with clinic-based evaluation and treatment of...
1. Jan. 2014 · Clinical psychology received its formal start from Lightner Witmer, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, who had trained with Wundt in Germany in the 1890s . Witmer’s initial research interests concerned individual differences in sensory and perceptual abilities, but he was also eager to use psychological principles to ...
During the last ten years the laboratory of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania has conducted, under my direction, what I have called "a psychological clinic". Children from the public schools of Philadelphia and adjacent cities have been brought to the laboratory by parents or teachers; these children had made themselves conspicuous ...
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).
By the late 1990s, available statistics suggest that of an estimated 245,000 professionals, 16% were psychiatrists, 32% were clinical psychologists, 13% were mental health nurses, and 39% were clinical social workers. 1. Download to read the full chapter text.
Share. Summary. Since World War II, clinical psychology has defined, refined, and expanded itself in concert with contemporary issues and demands. This chapter details the major developments in clinical psychology from immediately after World War II to the present.
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.
