<p>This is the last issue of Prevention & Treatment .</p><p>This journal never had an easy time. Two of its struggles are of some general interest and may hold lessons for the future. The first lesson was at its inception. In 1996 Donald Klein and I agreed to found Treatment, which was to be a joint journal of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Both associations, smoking a peace pipe temporarily, agreed. Within a couple of months, however, the American Psychiatric Association broke its agreement and pulled out, arguing that such a journal might legitimize the attempts of psychologists to prescribe medications. Seven years later prescriptive authority is still in about the same purgatory it was then, but the scientific collaboration between the two guilds that we envisioned was aborted.</p><p>At any rate that is how in 1997 Treatment became Prevention & Treatment .</p><p>The other struggle was getting submissions of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the high standards of the editorial board. I ventured into electronic communications in the early 1990's when I chaired an American Psychological Association committee on whether the Ph.D. could be given on the Internet. We concluded it could and within half
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<p>This is the last issue of Prevention & Treatment .</p><p>This journal never had an easy time. Two of its struggles are of some general interest and may hold lessons for the future. The first lesson was at its inception. In 1996 Donald Klein and I agreed to found Treatment, which was to be a joint journal of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Both associations, smoking a peace pipe temporarily, agreed. Within a couple of months, however, the American Psychiatric Association broke its agreement and pulled out, arguing that such a journal might legitimize the attempts of psychologists to prescribe medications. Seven years later prescriptive authority is still in about the same purgatory it was then, but the scientific collaboration between the two guilds that we envisioned was aborted.</p><p>At any rate that is how in 1997 Treatment became Prevention & Treatment .</p><p>The other struggle was getting submissions of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the high standards of the editorial board. I ventured into electronic communications in the early 1990's when I chaired an American Psychological Association committee on whether the Ph.D. could be given on the Internet. We concluded it could and within halfPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
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Seligman, Martin E. P.
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