Word: fieldwork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts at Amherst and a former lecturer in the clinical psychology program at Harvard, the Social Relations Department with its strong research emphasis opposed the Boulder ideal. Despite the addition of practical training, Harvard's graduate program continued the Plympton Street Clinic's stress on research. Students did supervised fieldwork in therapy centers such as the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Fernald State School, but they were trained mainly as scientists...
...expertise and publication than on clinical and teaching skills. Watt says, "The clinical interests of untenured faculty were inhibited in order to get academic stature for tenure." Furthermore, instructors did not get teaching credit for the great amount of supervision they did in order to train students in their fieldwork. As a result Watt maintains, "Students were not intensively trained in their good practica experiences. The faculty were not rewarded for good practica training...
Although several faculty members in Social Relations still do both clinical work and research, clinical work has been de-emphasized. Furthermore, present graduate students in abnormal personality can in fact do supervised fieldwork in clinical settings, but this work is not as common, structured or intensive as it was in the old program. Although clinical work has not been totally banished by the Social Relations Department, the 1967 decision to stop the training program ended the full financial, administrative and intellectual commitment necessary to do good clinical work...
...deny that the UFS is a political issue. The GSD's policies contradict this statement. Students have found it difficult to get credit for Field Service. In some years the UFS option has been "omitted" from the GSD catalogue, and first-year students only learn of the existence of fieldwork in the GSD curriculum from disillusioned second-year students...
...Irish copper miner and his German wife. Before she was two, her father moved the family to Artesia, Calif., where he bought a ten-acre truck farm. Pat's mother died when she was 13, leaving her to do all the housework and some of the fieldwork. Eleanor Stegeberg was born in 1921 on a South Dakota farm at the outset of the great farm depression. Her mother died when she and her twin sister Ila were eleven. There was never much money but there was always plenty of talk. "I grew up thinking that the only...