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Social Learning And Clinical Psychology, by Julian B. Rotter. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1954 is a book available to read on EtoBox.

"The clinical psychologist after leaving the university and obtaining his first job is subject to two major pressures. On one hand is the pressure created by his training, which directs him toward caution, skepticism of generalizations, and a desire to restrict his activities to sound scientific principles, tested methods, and "approved" theories. On the other hand, his professional co-workers have little patience with his academic qualifications of statements and his long-winded statements of probabilities. They are averse to trying things out on patients. They want something done and want it done immediately. Under these pressures the clinical psychologist is usually forced to compromise. He may maintain the scientific rigor of his experimental methods in research, but in his daily work, because of the need to help patients immediately, he relies more and more on experience and empirical methods. Because of these pressures, the practice of clinical psychology in many instances is unsystematic and confused when viewed from logical or rigorous scientific viewpoints. This confusion, however, is not a necessary condition but the result of the failure of the clinical psychologists' tr

Author

Julian B. Rotter. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1954

Publisher

[New York, Johnson Reprint Corp.]

Published

1954

Language

EN

ISBN

9780384521605

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Philosophy