Psychology as a Profession

Cautin, Robin L.; Freedheim, Donald K.; DeLeon, Patrick H.

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“…Many state and regional psychological organizations had formed in the 1920s to give professional psychologists a venue to discuss common interests. In 1930, the largest of these, the New York State Association of Consulting Psychologists, reorganized to form the Association of Consulting Psychologists (ACP), which then absorbed several smaller consulting psychology associations (Benjamin & Baker, 2004; Benjamin, DeLeon, Freedheim, & VandenBos, 2003). Led by New York University psychologist Douglas Fryer, the ACP was the first putatively national organization for practicing psychologists (Benjamin, 1997; Benjamin & Baker, 2004).…”

Section: From the End Of World War I To The End Of World War Iimentioning

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125 years of the American Psychological Association.

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Cautin

2017

American Psychologist

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The American Psychological Association (APA) began 125 years ago as a small club of a few dozen members in the parlor of its founder, G. Stanley Hall. In the decades since, it has faced many difficulties and even a few existential crises. Originally a scientific society, it spent the decades between the world wars figuring out how to accommodate the growing community of applied psychologists while still retaining and enhancing its scientific reputation. After World War II, with an expanded mandate, it developed formal training models for clinical psychologists and became an important player in legal cases pertaining to civil rights and other social justice issues. With practitioners taking an ever-greater role in the governance of the organization in the late 1970s, and the financial viability of the association in doubt in the 1980s, many psychological scientists felt the need to create a separate organization for themselves. The 1990s and early 2000s brought more challenges: declining divisional memberships; a legal dispute over fees with practitioners; and a serious upheaval over the APA Board of Directors' cooperation with governmental defense and intelligence agencies during the "war on terror." These clashes appear to have precipitated a decline in the association's membership for the first time in its history. The APA has faced many storms over its century-and-a-quarter, but has, thus far, always ultimately found a way forward for itself, for its members, and for the wider discipline of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Section: From the End Of World War I To The End Of World War Iimentioning

confidence: 99%

125 years of the American Psychological Association.

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Cautin

2017

American Psychologist

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“…The epistemological exchange system thereafter is characterized by resource condensation (for general models, see Angle, 1986; Bouchard & Mézard, 2000): resources become centralized in the hands of a few. This pattern is evidenced in psychology in terms of restrictions on who is considered to be a psychologist (for various aspects of constructing the discipline see Benjamin, DeLeon, Freedheim, & Vandenbos, 2003; Coon, 1992; Danziger, 1990; Gieryn, 1999; Tweney & Budzynski, 2000).…”

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Prestige technology in the evolution and social organization of early psychological science

Schoenherr

2016

Theory & Psychology

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Instruments have become a central feature of psychological science. Their introduction into a research paradigm is typically framed in terms of their practical utility in offering calibration and precision in the presentation, representation, and recording of phenomena. However, a review of early experimental psychology reveals that instruments have an additional role in terms of the accumulation of domain-specific status, or prestige. The emergence and use of prestige technologies reflects a general feature of social organization wherein group members must compete for the attention of a community. An examination of the introduction of the chronoscope demonstrates that while there was an awareness of its functional limitations, these limits were often not prominent features of later paradigmatic discourse. In contrast to early adopters, later researchers appear to have demonstrated a reduced concern for these limitations suggesting that these instruments were being used as much for their prestige function as their practical utility.

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“…Psychology has been divided into two large epochs, pre– and post–World War II (Benjamin, DeLeon, Freedheim, & VandenBos, 2003). In reviewing the psychological literature, I found approximately 10 articles about professional psychology that were published before the war.…”

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Antonio E. Puente: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice.

2011

American Psychologist

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Presents Antonio E. Puente as the 2011 winner of the American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice. "For his decades of efforts to enhance the recognition of psychologists in providing health care services, through his work with the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Panel to develop and maintain appropriate CPT codes for the breadth of professional practice; for his willingness to participate in litigation establishing the expertise of neuropsychologists to testify in court about their findings; for his tireless work in cross-cultural assessment relative to criminal trials; for his leadership of professional societies in clinical neuropsychology; for his promotion of legislation and policy at all levels of government; and for his countless other contributions to the enhancement of independent practice in psychology. Antonio Puente is a far-thinking visionary who freely shares his knowledge to improve the quality of psychological practice and the reimbursement system that attests to the worth of the profession. He is the very embodiment of the psychologist for whom this award is intended." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

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Psychology as a Profession

Cited by 13 publications

References 77 publications

125 years of the American Psychological Association.

125 years of the American Psychological Association.

Prestige technology in the evolution and social organization of early psychological science

Antonio E. Puente: Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Independent Practice.

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