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Control of Psychological Testing: The Threat and a Response
Author(s) -
Clawson Thomas W.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1997.tb02380.x
Subject(s) - legislation , psychological intervention , association (psychology) , psychology , professional association , public relations , control (management) , psychological science , political science , resource (disambiguation) , social psychology , position (finance) , applied psychology , law , business , computer science , psychiatry , management , psychotherapist , economics , computer network , finance
Who has the right to use psychological tests? Until recently, most qualified professionals had access to these tests. The American Psychological Association (APA), however, has supported several legal interventions as well as legislation that would allow only licensed psychologists to use most psychological tests. The position of the Fair Access Coalition on Testing (FACT) is that the APA efforts will reduce needed services to the general public, violate existing professional policies of both the American Counseling Association and APA, initiate counterproductive turf wars, and turn existing collaboration among professional organizations into time‐consuming, resource‐devouring, nonproductive conflict. FACT's efforts to reaffirm its policy statement are outlined.