ABSTRACT
Since World War II considerable thought and attention has been given to graduate training in psychology, with special emphasis on training in applied areas such as clinical. A major concern has been meeting both scientific and professional training goals which have been outlined and discussed at the Boulder Conference, the Stanford Conference, and the Miami Beach Conference. The effort to train for both scientific and professional goals in one context involved an intensive summer program organized around an advanced graduate course in abnormal psychology. There is agreement that all clinical psychologists must have familiarity with this area of knowledge; however, relatively little attention was given to it at the Boulder or San Francisco conferences. The chapter aims to help the students develop a perspective which included an awareness of the reality of human pathology and existing methods of treatment, plus an awareness of scientific methods and the limits of scientific knowledge about all behavior, including that which psychologists call pathological.
