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Training for clinical psychology has been predicated upon the model of the specialist. No attempt has been made to train students in programs designed on the basis of research results. Currently, we have performance criteria. We can label the structure and content of programs. The interaction of program variables and student variables could be studied over time. Such research would suggest the applicability of specialist or generalist models for the training of clinical psychologists.

Rationalists, wearing square hats,

Think, in square rooms,

Looking at the floor,

Looking at the ceiling.

They confine themselves

To right-angled triangles.

If they tried rhomboids,

Cones, waving lines, ellipses—

As, for example, the ellipse of the half moon—

Rationalists would wear sombreros.

(Stevens, 1957)

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The Clinical Psychologist: A Generalist with Specialist Training

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