Clinical psychology comes of age.

The predoctoral internship: Is current training anachronistic?

“…At the time, many psychologists had not had access to clinical training and thus were insufficiently skilled with regard to clinical matters (Belar, 1998;Roe, Gustad, Moore, Ross, & Skodak, 1959). Nonetheless, psychologists were heavily utilized for the assessment and treatment of soldiers who had psychological problems (Strickland, 1988).…”

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

“…There were many advantages to the neophyte discipline of psychology attaching itself at the turn of the eighteenth century to the coat tails of the physical sciences, and, once established, it rose quickly in terms of power, status, and wealth. Indeed, in the United States the term 'clinical psychologist' had been coined and the first 'clinic' established in 1896 (Strickland, 1988). As clinical psychology established itself as a science, 'sexual deviancy' became a focus for its gaze, and its practitioners happily took up the position of 'experts' on this topic.…”

Fifty years of psychiatric nomenclature: Reflections on the 1943 War Department Technical Bulletin, Medical 203

“…Strickland (1988) has noted that, following World War II, the small group of applied psychologists who had focused on assessment and testing with children in the pre-war years were called upon to join a growing number of new trainees in meeting the mental-health needs of the adult population. Sarason (1988) has described the influence of psychoanalytic concepts on the emerging field of clinical psychology.…”