ABSTRACT
The impressive development and popularity of graduate education in psychology has generated concerns regarding quality, scientific rigor, creativity, breadth, and applications produced by programs in these varied settings. The organizational issue of who owns the right to grant the PhD in psychology is a different one than the issue of where the best training is to be obtained. Psychologists have arrived at a consensus on the formal attributes of a graduate training program in psychology. Such a program should be directed by psychologists, should consist of a core of methods, statistics, and various content areas, and should provide for supervised training in research and service delivery, as appropriate. Psychology departments in colleges of arts and sciences provide the best opportunities to train psychologists broadly. Training for specialization emphasizing mastery of specific techniques and focusing on a particular problem or population, which is likely to occur outside of arts and sciences psychology departments, may become training for obsolescene.
