Applied and professional attitudes.
- 1 January 1939
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Consulting Psychology
- Vol. 3 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0060308
Abstract
The presidential address delivered at last year's annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Psychology. The scientific method appeared and was established in theoretical psychology, and applied psychologists should not allow utilitarian purposes to outweigh the necessity for maintaining systematic attitudes in their investigations, which themselves must be experimental. The emergence of practitioners in psychology implies the development of professional attitudes regarding accepted ways of practice, attitudes of personal worth, and attitudes of service to society. Particularly important are attitudes of professional adjustment and co-operation. "The professional psychologist cannot be a cloistered metaphysician of mystical authority." Portrait of D. G. Paterson. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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