Before Boluder and Bogota. Concerns around Psychology Education

KLAPPENBACH, HUGO

Praga (on-line)

Congreso; 32 International Congress of Psychology.; 2021

International Union of Psychology Sciences

The presentation in the Invited Symposium will focus in the first debates around Psychology Education or Teaching in Psychology. The state of affairs during the 1920s will be first analyzed. Later, one of the first inquiries prepared by a Committee at a psychology organization focused on the courses required for clinical psychological work in 1936 is exposed besides the survey devoted to courses in psychology offered by undergraduate colleges of liberal arts in 1938. Then, the presentation will focus on the well-known Shakow proposals concerning the training of the clinical psychologists at the beginnings of the 1940s. The Boulder Conference is presented as the capstone of the previous debates and concerns on the topic. Finally, the presentation analyzes how the first undergraduate programs in Psychology in Latin America incorporated such state of affairs.