Role of internship in respecialization

Respecialization in clinical psychology.

“…(Abeles, 1982) This policy has gradually found its way into a variety of other APA policy statements (e.g., Standards/or Providers of Psychological Services), the membership requirements of some organizations (e.g., APA's Division of Clinical Psychology), the prerequisites for some postdoctoral psychotherapy training programs (e.g., Adelphi University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis), and the licensing laws or regulations in some states (e.g., Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia). The development of, and response to, the respecialization policy is described by Strieker (1983), who also reports on some of these formal responses to the policy, as does Hall (1983) and Orgel (1983).…”