ABSTRACT
The participants at the Utah conference strongly urged the acceptance and support of applied endeavors in what have been considered traditional academic areas of psychology. Departments are urged to make research in applied settings a viable part of their programs, to avoid a negative attitude toward work in nonacademic settings, and to encourage the development of these applied areas in the field. At the same time, departments are urged to be aware of and avoid the development of overly narrow or specific applied programs where the foundations of psychology, knowledge, and methodology are diminished, or programs will produce a graduate who will be faced with future "technological unemployability". Marketability means having knowledge and skills that have some application, and therefore that consumers find useful. The health-related subfields of psychology have an obvious concern with application, and hence with marketability. The field became concerned about marketplace issues in response to the difficulties of placing students from these areas in academic settings.
