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Clinical psychology has grown tremendously since 1896, the year Lightner Witmer founded the world’s first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania (Reisman, 1976). While once associated merely with clinic-based evaluation and treatment of...
Psychology has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 1887. From the start it has emphasized both scientific rigor and practical application, not always at the same time. The first professor, James McKeen Cattell, was an advocate of scientific method and careful data collection (with expensive apparatus).
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Clinical psychologists are frequently involved in educational activities, teaching in colleges or universities, and many are also engaged in research. Despite its familiarity, this field had its origins in 1896, not much more than a century ago.
Since that time the psychological clinic has been regularly conducted in connection with the laboratory of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. The study of these cases has also formed a regular part of the instruction offered to students in child psychology.
As Ph.D.-level clinical psychologists, Penn graduates can be expected to advance the frontiers of basic science and contribute to our understanding of the etiology, prevention, and treatment of psychopathology as well as the advancement of well-being.
This reprinted article originally appeared in The Psychological Clinic, 1907, I. Witmer 's original article describes the development of the psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania and explains the function of the clinic in providing conjoint physical and mental examinations.
