ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the issues and recommendations of previous national conferences on graduate education that have relevance to clinical psychology and to the Conference on the Professional Preparation of Clinical Psychologists. The Boulder Conference, held in August 1949, was the first of the national conferences on training in psychology and was concerned specifically with clinical. In defining clinical psychologists, the conference took a very operational point of view. The title should be used only by persons with a doctoral degree based upon graduate education in psychology received from a recognized university. In August 1955, the Institute on Education and Training for Psychological Contributions to Mental Health was held at Stanford University. Participants unanimously agreed that the mental health movement would have even more far-reaching effects on psychology than did the post-war demand for clinical psychologists and that public concern over mental health would make greatly increased demands on the behavioral sciences and on the mental health professions.
