American psychology and schools: a critique.
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No one denies that the Boulder Conference on Clinical Psychology marked a turning point on American psychology. This paper by one of the three or four living participants lists the conference as one in which psychology was at a choice point, went in one and only one direction, without examining the possible consequences or the possibility of going in more than 1 direction. A second theme is that the APA has to be faulted for a lack of searching self-scrutiny of its past. Organizations, like individuals, resist such self-scrutiny.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of community psychology
دوره 32 1-2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003