PS381 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Health Maintenance Organization, Preferred Provider Organization, Clinical Psychology
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Models of training in clinical psychology: the scientist-practitioner model. Also known as the boulder model; 1949. An attempt to marry science and clinical practice, and it remains the most popular training model for clinical psychologists even to this day. It saw a profession comprised of skilled practitioners who could produce their own research as well as consume the research of others. The psychological clinician would practice with skill and sensitivity but would also contribute to the body of clinical knowledge by understanding how to translate experience into testable hypotheses and how to test these hypotheses. Practice with skill while being able to conduct and review research. Always assumed you would do the research yourself but counterargument was that you needed to be able to critique the research of others. Some would become primarily researchers and some primarily clinicians. Pros: balanced in the theoretical and the practical, rooted in academia and research.
