Mental and Personality Disorders in Selective Service Registrants

Rowntree, Leonard G.; McGill, Kenneth H.; Hellman, Louis P.

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“…Though retardation of such ex¬ treme degree may be exceptional, one could without difficulty locate thousands of others whose potential for high quality living dur¬ ing their adult years is being compromised significantly as a result of failure to prevent, recognize, and repair harmful conditions during childhood. Some perspective concerning the size and character of the problems which must be overcome may be had by reviewing current morbidity and mortality statistics for indi¬ viduals under 20 years of age.3'21 For in¬ stance, students of mortality trends are reporting that every child has an approxi¬ mately 97% chance of living at least 20 17, are so handicapped by their physi¬ cal condition that they are severely limited in play or school work or both. Notably absent from this list of etiologic factors is any indication that dietary malnutrition still ranks high as a cause of physical disease among the children of our nation today.…”

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Pediatric Frontiers in Developmental Medicine

Talbot¹

1965

Am J Dis Child

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1965

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“…The demands for psychotherapy cannot possibly be met by the visible future supply of psychiatrists, so that, for this reason if no other, much psychotherapy and clinical handling of the individual case will have to be done by clinical psychologists. Examination of draftees in the late war revealed that 35 per cent of the young males suffered from disabling psychiatric defects (52). The pace and conflict of modern life will not decrease AN INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY [i this incidence.…”

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The meaning of clinical psychology.

Cattell¹

An Introduction to Clinical Psychology, 2nd Ed.

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Clinical Psychology: Its BeginningsCLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, currently conceived, is one of several divisions of applied psychology and, as such, overlaps upon occasion in content and technique with its elder siblings. But quite like all other subdivisions of applied psychological knowledge, it has for its foundation the scientific methods of experimental and statistical analysis inherited from its laboratory forebears.The profession of clinical psychology is thus one of the newest and, in this troubled age, perhaps one of the most important, of all professions. Some historians (37) mention 1917 as the date of its birth, but this is more correctly its date of "confirmation," marked by the formation of the first professional organization for the study of clinical problems. The real beginnings-omitting the customary reference to Aristotle-are to be found around the time when Lightner Witmer established the first psychological clinic in 1896 at the University of Pennsylvania. Brotemarkle's sketch (9) of how this movement grew out of Witmer's early training under Wundt-an unlikely soil for such an applied growthshould be of interest to those concerned with historical origins. McKeen Cattell's work (11) in psychometrics had been in process for ten years before this clinic was founded and one might suspect that his interest in individual differences influenced Witmer's thinking. But we are told that the actual spark came from a challenge by a public school teacher regarding the case of a chronic bad speller! In retrospect, this was clearly a period of great intentions and small means, for it was a decade or more before Guy Whipple, at Cornell, produced tools in the form of a Manual of Mental and Physical Tests and before Binet and Simon started intelligence testing on its long career. The fact that in this remote period people worked without diagnostic instruments at all is less remarkable than that clinicians later worked for thirty years with nothing more than tests of abilities-before adequate tests of personality were created. Thus, although the aim of clinical psychology has been to bring the mentally abnormal back to mental health, the early efforts to provide it with scientifically sound

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“…The demands for psychotherapy cannot possibly be met by the visible future supply of psychiatrists, so that much psychotherapy and clinical handling of the individual case will have to be done by clinical psychologists. Examination of the draft in the late war revealed that 35 per cent of the young males suffered from disabling neuropsychiatric defects (40). The pace and conflict of modern life will not decrease this incidence.…”

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confidence: 99%

The meaning of clinical psychology.

Cattell¹

An Introduction to Clinical Psychology.

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CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, currently conceived, is at best only one of several divisions of applied psychology and, as such, overlaps upon occasion in content and technique with its elder siblings. But quite like all other subdivisions of applied psychological knowledge, it has for its foundation the scientific methods of experimental and statistical analysis inherited from its laboratory forebears. This neophyte in the family of professions-and some (10) offer 1917 as the date of its inception by virtue of the founding of the first professional organization for the study of clinical problemshas a goal which at this stage we shall only contingently define, namely, the bringing of the mentally abnormal back to mental health. It is necessary here to distinguish this goal from tnat of the mental hygiene movement which grades into religious or philosophical orientations, and, on the other flank, from education which aims to lead people to make optimal use of their potentialities for the benefit of themselves and of society. The clinician is to be found in all those areas of human endeavor-mental hospitals, child guidance clinics, industrial plants, community welfare agencies, prisons, courts, and the schools, to mention only a few-where problems of adjustment and human failure arise.

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Mental and Personality Disorders in Selective Service Registrants

Cited by 8 publications

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Pediatric Frontiers in Developmental Medicine

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The meaning of clinical psychology.

The meaning of clinical psychology.

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