Historically grounding the practice of psychology: implications for professional training.
The author explores 3 ways the history of psychology can be made relevant to professional training in clinical psychology. Focusing on the practitioner-scholar model of clinical professional training, he argues that 3 central facets of historical understanding can be wedded to existing goals of professional training: (a) providing an interdisciplinary context for psychology, (b) addressing concerns about humans in the field, and (c) mediating theory-practice tensions that often exist in professional training. Suggestions are also made for encouraging historical understanding as essential to fostering critical self-reflection among students preparing for careers in professional psychology.
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Department of Psychology, Wheaton College, Illinois 60187, USA. trey.buchanan@wheaton.edu
D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000266:history*; D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States