Abstract
The first Scandinavian School Psychological Service was established in April 1934 in the municipality of Frederiksberg, which is an independent part of Greater Copenhagen. The founder was Dr Henning Meyer. Soon afterwards, other school psychological offices (as they were then called) appeared, and the lack of qualified school psychologists had to be faced. There were a few persons (all of them teachers) who had studied psychology at the University of Copenhagen and had taken a degree as 'magister' (corresponding to a master's degree, or in some cases to a doctor's degree). But a rather quick escalation of the school psychological work resulted in a serious lack of qualified school psychologists. This was one reason for the establishment of a new study programme at the University of Copenhagen culminating with the degree candidatus psychologiae (abbreviated cand. psych.).
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