Psychology 3301F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Multidisciplinary Approach, Analytical Psychology, Little Albert Experiment

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3301F/G
• Professor: Cathy Chovaz

Document Summary

*witner: father of modern clinical psychology, **in 1896, opened first psychological clinic, at u of pennsylvania, reported that he started training what he called "clinical psychology students, began publishing journal "psychological clinic" Witner"s legacy - father of clinical psychology: 1. Multidisciplinary approach over individual consultation: wanted input from other disciplines, e. g. Interventions and diagnostic strategies empirical: need to do things that are evidence based (based on science) - 120 years ago, there was a reaction against it at the time, but he was adamant, 4. Interested in prevention: want to benefit the person and their surroundings/ family, community. The u. pennsylvania model - witner: modern psychology, learn about historical psych (freud etc. What were they not doing: psychologists were not doing psychotherapy from 1909-1945, donald olding hebb - very famous academic psychologist - mcgill. A need for a model: so more and more psychologists were getting into the provision of psychotherapy.