Discusses new schools of professional psychology that are a major new source of practitioners in the mental health care field. Within the American Psychological Association (APA) there has been a shift in power from the academics to the practitioners, causing friction in the APA. (MA)

Teachers from eight schools responded to an extensive questionnaire designed to reveal their perceptions of the roles, functions, and helpfulness of school psychologists. Results indicate that teachers from upper income schools viewed the psychologist as most helpful to a greater variety of children. (Author)

Basic considerations in defining and clarifying consultation are discussed, as that role is emerging in schools. Resistance to change is caused by fear of the unknown, existing satisfactions, and conflicts of interest. Required changes may be personal behaviors or systems changes, but probably interactions of both. (Author/CTM)

Professionals employed in school systems are called upon to define alternative ways to organize for evaluation, and to focus on various objects of evaluation. Standards suggested for judging school evaluation included those addressing accuracy, utility, propriety, and feasibility of the evaluation. (Author)

Responses by 196 couples (in which both spouses were members of the American Psychological Association) to a series of questions regarding domestic satisfaction, job satisfaction, and productivity were examined as a function of years since final degree and number of children in the family. (Author)

The occupational specializations and therapeutic orientations of clinical psychologists were related to their use and opinion of testing. The two tests clinicians considered most important to clinical practice were the Rorschach and the Thematic Apperception Test. Among the 10 most frequently recommended test, projective measures were listed 30…

Humanistic psychologists tend to describe psychodiagnostic assessment as nonhumanistic. They argue that assessment is reductionistic and artificial, ignores the examiner-patient relationship, judges people, and is overly intellectual. These concerns are then addressed from a pro-assessment perspective. (EVH)

A. R. Luria, who was always dedicated to solving human problems and whose work revolutionized neuropsychology, is dead. His central concern was the removal of threats to effective psychological functioning, to a fully human life. Here is a review of his contributions to psychological research. (Author/RK)

Discusses the process of observation and presents a systematic approach for incorporating behavioral observations into evaluations and written psychological reports, based on Robert Carkhuff's Human Resource Development Model. Using this framework and drawing on the experiences of the authors, several principles of report writing are discussed.…

Investigated similarity of clinical evaluation of personological characteristics across three different information sources. Subjects were independently rated by a single clinician on 18 criterion factors in each of three information source catagories. Results indicate a varying degree of convergence of multitrait clinical ratings dependent on…

The study involved a followup of 125 doctoral students in counseling psychology at 20 southern universities who completed the Personality Research Form. Three years later, subjects were followed up to determine functional specialty performed (administrator, practitioner, or other) and degree of job satisfaction (extremely satisfied, mildly…

Five hundred clinical psychologists were surveyed about their use and opinions of psychological tests. Results showed that both objective and projective tests are used by clinical psychologists of all major therapeutic orientations. (Author)

Reviews the life, teachings, and theories of psychologist Carl R. Rogers on the occasion of his 75th birthday. (SL)

The author discusses general principles, rationale, and methods used in the training of graduate students in general intelligence testing instruments at the University of Calgary. (MB)

Asked each of 41 psychologists to "refer" each of six case vignettes (two schizophrenic, two neurotic, and two "other") to the colleague he/she believed would be most effective with that case. A therapists received more schizophrenic than neurotic referrals, whereas B therapists received more neurotic than schizophrenic referrals. (Author)