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Jack of all trades, master of none?: An alternative to clinical psychology's market‐driven mission creep
Author(s) -
Heesacker Martin
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20138
Subject(s) - scholarship , psychology , discipline , engineering ethics , psychoanalysis , sociology , social science , law , political science , engineering
Abstract The authors C.R. Snyder and T.R. Elliott of this special issue's target article, “Twenty‐First Century Graduate Education in Clinical Psychology: A Four Level Matrix Model” (this issue), are right that scientific distinctions should sometimes be de‐emphasized in service of understanding the larger scientific vision. However, they take their combining too far, arrogating unto clinical psychology elements best left to their original scholarly disciplines. Snyder and Elliott simply present the next logical step in clinical psychology's longstanding tradition of “mission creep,” broadening its focus to encompass new potential markets. Instead, the keeping and sharpening of disciplinary and subdisciplinary boundaries might best serve clinical psychology. The emphasis would shift from mission creep to building links with complementary disciplines and subdisciplines, to tackle issues that require true interdisciplinary scholarship. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.