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Reconciling the rift: Improving clinical psychology graduate training in the twenty‐first century
Author(s) -
Ritschel Lorie A.
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.20147
Subject(s) - psychology , graduate students , curriculum , training (meteorology) , field (mathematics) , medical education , engineering ethics , pedagogy , medicine , physics , mathematics , meteorology , pure mathematics , engineering
Most graduate programs in clinical psychology adhere to and reportedly are satisfied with the scientist–practitioner model of training. In the present commentary, I take the position that this model must be updated to reconcile the rift that currently exists between the scientists and the practitioners within the field. A return to scientific rigor within the field is espoused, and suggestions of ways to improve both undergraduate and graduate curricula are made. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.