ABSTRACT
The swift movement of events in both the fields of mental health and of social action presents all mental health professionals with fresh opportunity and equally fresh challenge. In a long-neglected field of endeavor—the supply of services and the use of knowledge on behalf of community mental health—it is, perhaps, understandable to desire full comprehensive services all at once. Full comprehensive services also include diagnostic and rehabilitative services, precare and aftercare, training, research and evaluation—categories in which psychologists as well as other behavioural sciences can make a major contribution. In exploratory conferences on training psychologists in community mental health—such as the one held in Boston—the psychologist is being discussed as the "creative generalist" of the community mental health center, and as such, some aspects of social psychology, behavioral psychology, and other specialties may become part of the community psychologist's skills.
