Blog and Link for 3/24

http://www.apa.org/divisions/div12/homepage.html

This is a link to the clinical psychology division of the APA. I thought it would be interesting to look at since it took so long for the APA to accept clincial psychology into the organization.

I wanted to comment on how the VA and the government really had to push the APA and the AAAP to come together to help the war veterans after WWII. Benjamin, in the blue book, discussed how it wasn't until the war ended that the need for clinical psychologists was pushed to the forefront. Benjamin also commented on how many of the clinical psychologists of the time, although practicing had not ever really had the appropriate training, and there was a substantial lack of research confirming or denying the effectiveness of certain clinical techniques and methods. What really suprised me was that because the demand for psychologists was so high after the war that unqualified, or should I say MORE unqualified, psychologists were treating war veterans suffering from a multitude of maladies, most common being PTSD. So this all made me wonder, what sort of mistakes doing you think psychologists made? Do you think there were misdiagnoses, any that were harmful?