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THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYB ECAUSE OF the large number of psychometric instruments available today, it is obviously impossible to train students in the use of all of them. Therefore, in most programs designed for training in clinical testing, it has seemed wise to restrict the training to certain specific tests covering the entire range of the various types of tests. In order to secure data regarding the instruments in most common use in clinics, questionnaires were sent to 31 university clinics listed in the report in the May, 1946, issue of The American Psychologist, and to 28 additional clinics of different types. From this number, 43 completed returns were received and are included in the survey report. No follow-up letters were mailed.The final returns of 43 institutions are divided as follows: colleges and universities, 22; psychiatric hospitals, 6; public schools, 3; juvenile research activities, 2; child guidance clinics, 2; children's homes, 2; training schools, 2; counseling and adjustment services, 2; public clinics, 1; research institute, 1. While this sampling is heavily weighted with colleges and universities, it is likely that the techniques and clinical methods being used in other types of clinics will be affected by what is being used in colleges, and vice versa.

American psychology, generally speaking, has not heen greatly interested in practical problems of human behavior. There have been many brilliant individual exceptions to this generalization, but the attitude of the representative professional group is clearly evident in the Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, which have been summarized in Fernberger's history (28, pp. 42-53). That the laissez-faire attitude of the Association was not shared by many of its Members is shown by the organization of the American Association for Applied Psychology (5, 24) in 1937. One of the fundamental reasons for the new organization is the ever-increasing opportunities, even demands, for psychological work in varied human affairs. Whether the practicing psychologists are working in schools, industry, business, hospitals, courts, or in private consultation, a large number of them are confronted with problems concerning specific individuals, ft is in dealing with such individual problems that one of the most important services of psychology is to be found, and it is this individual work which constitutes, in a general way, the field of clinical psychology.A statement such as the one last made is unsatisfactory because it is so general that it conceals many detailed problems which must be faced and solved if clinical psychology is to mean anything more than what each individual speaker uses it to mean. In other words, there is little or no actual agreement as to what clinical psychology is, except that it deals with individuals.A more specific definition of clinical psychology has been attempted by many writers during the past quarter of a century, but their statements do not always agree among themselves. There is no intent in writing this paper to present a new, and the final, definition. Rather, we shall be content with doing spadework furnishing data for such a formulation. In order to define this subject we

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This new text closes the gap between graduate study of psychology and the attainment of professional know-how. It is a systematic compilation of information that is important to professional psychologists, but neglected in their training. It covers facts and techniques otherwise learned only by long experience. Particular attention is given to problems of publishing with special reference to the Held of psychology. The text assembles information from other professional fields, includes new research never before reported, and contains valuable reference material which makes the book useful as a handbook.