Journal of Consulting Psychology

Brotemarkle, Robert A.

doi: 10.1037/h0058578pmid: 20293819

This is an address delivered to the Convocation of the University of Pennsylvania in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of The Psychological Clinic, September 5, 1946. The work of Lightner Witmer is reviewed, and his concepts of clinical psychology, formulated 50 years ago, are found to be sound today.

Shaffer, Laurance F.

doi: 10.1037/h0061415pmid: 20293820

This is an address delivered September 3, 1946, at the University of Pennsylvania at a symposium in honor of 50 years of clinical psychology. The bases of discord between psychology and psychiatry arise from differences in training and lack of uniform standards in clinical psychology. Two committees, one from the American Psychiatric Association and one from the American Psychological Association, are working to correct these difficulties.

Doll, Edgar A.

doi: 10.1037/h0061035pmid: 20293821

This is an address delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, September 3, 1946, at a symposium in honor of 50 years of clinical psychology. The first pitfall for the clinical psychologist to avoid is reduction of his status from clinical psychologist to psychometrician. Other difficulties are the selection of tests that should be used in a given clinical situation, and the interpretation of the validity, reliability, and standardization of the single tests themselves.

Williams, Meyer

doi: 10.1037/h0059330pmid: 20293822

This study attempts to validate the Rorschach factors which are said to have relation to intellectual control. Twenty-five university students were given the Rorschach examination and then performed the Digit Symbol Test (Wechsler Bellevue) under standard and stress conditions. Results confirm the assumed relationship between intellectual control as measured by the Rorschach and intellectual performance in an actual stress situation. 29 references.

Lowman, Charles LeRoy; Seidenfeld, Morton A.

doi: 10.1037/h0059289pmid: 20293823

Psychological problems were studied in a group of 203 male and 234 female patients over the age of 16 who had undergone treatment for infantile paralysis. Statistics are presented under the topics: physical factors, vocational factors, and social adjustment. Of great importance to psychological adjustment is the degree of apparency of the deformity.

Snyder, William U.

doi: 10.1037/h0058380pmid: 20293824

This study compares by statistical and other means one failure and four successes in nondirective counseling. In the unsuccessful case the counselor employed significantly more the techniques of structuring, asking direct questions, and restating the content of the client's remarks, and significantly less those of interpretation and approval and encouragement. The unsuccessful client used these procedures more often: asking for information, rejecting the counselor's statements, discussing the ending of the series of interviews, and discussing irrelevant material. Reasons for the data are discussed.

Rotter, Julian B.; Willerman, Benjamin

doi: 10.1037/h0059479pmid: 20293825

The authors devised an Incomplete Sentences Test, to be used as a screening device for evaluating adjustment and for measuring improvement in the Army Air Forces convalescent hospitals. Responses are standardized so that relatively untrained scorers may be employed. Validity and reliability coefficients are satisfactory.

Louttit, C. M.; Browne, C. G.

doi: 10.1037/h0056136pmid: 20293826

From mail questionnaires returned by 43 institutions data were obtained regarding the psychometric instruments in most common use. In 1946 the 5 most used tests were: Stanford Binet, Wechsler-Bellevue, Good-enough Drawing, TAT, and Rorschach. Since 1935 the trend is toward greater use of personality tests.