Thursday, March 28, 1963 University Daily Kansan
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Huling Says Psychology Becoming Diversified
The academic psychologist has not yet fully recognized that the field of psychology is becoming more diversified.
That was the opinion expressed last night by Maurice Huling, assistant professor of psychology, who spoke at a meeting of the Psychology Club.
THE FIELD of psychology is no longer restricted to the academic and scientific application but is growing to include work in the field of education, industry, and medicine, he said.
Many academic psychologists do not want to set up university programs in order to meet the demands of diversification. Huling said. One reason is, he explained, they are afraid of losing prestige and control of such organizations as the American Psychological Association.
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"Prior to World War II," Huling said, "psychology was purely an academic discipline which was facetiously called the study of rats and college sophomores."
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IN 1840, 75 PER CENT of the membership of the American Psychological Association was academic and 23 per cent was non-academic. Huling said.
Ey 1962 the percentage of nonacademic members had increased to 47 per cent and the percentage of academic members had decreased to 53 per cent, he said.
Huling said that of the 53 per cent academic psychologists only 29 per cent were employed in university psychology departments while 18 per cent were employed in other departments such as business and mathematics.
"THIS 29 PER CENT often feel they have the right to say what a psychologist is and what psychology is." Huling said. "But what psychology is, is not often well-represented by this 29 per cent."
Hulung said that during World War II clinical hospitals were set up for orthopedic treatment of injuries to limbs. But it was soon discovered, he added, that the major form of casualty was psychiatric.
Thus the demand grew for qualified persons to treat the cases. Psychologists were employed to help fill the need, he said.
THE VETERAN'S Administration converted the Army hospitals into centers for neuro-psychiatry in the rehabilitation of servicemen. The Veteran's Administration employed
psychologists, Huline said, and even set up training programs for them. He said this demand for psychologists caused campuses to be overrun with people who wanted to be clinical psychologists.
psychologists, Huline said, and even set up training programs for them.
They were hindered not only by an insufficient staff but by the fact that no one actually knew what clinical psychology was.
Huling said he is not aware of the industrial psychologist's push to be liberated from academic confines. But, he said, as the field becomes diversified the movement will develop.
ANOTHER FIELD which is becoming more diversified is the field of experimental psychology. Huling said more and more experimental psychologists are finding work in "programmatic and problem-solving" jobs with such organizations as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and General Dynamics
Huling said the field of school psychology has grown 600 per cent in the last 10 years. Controversy has arisen whether the person should primarily be an educator and psychologist secondarily or vice versa.
Huling said he did not know how the problem of diversification in psychology would be solved or what the future would be. But he was certain "it would be interesting." He added that universities will have to face the need for diversification sooner or later.
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