ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description of one training center's approach to postdoctoral training for the professional aspects of clinical psychology, as seen through the eyes of one of the faculty members in this training program. The paper by I. E. Alexander offers a thumbnail description of 20 institutions which currently offer continuing one- or two-year National Institute of Mental Health—supported postdoctoral training programs to graduates of departments with American Psychological Association—approved programs in clinical psychology that have had a full year of internship. Following World War II the assessment faculty psychologist in medical centers was in large part a psychodiagnostician offering a type of laboratory consultation service. Until psychological centers have achieved their own experience, history, and other cultural supports for training the young clinical psychologist for professional responsibility, it is apparent that some training programs in medical settings will continue to be required for such training.
