What we need to know about intervention and interventionists.
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One of the most important contributions of community psychology is to have community interventions that have intended outcomes and to describe the intervention in ways that are sufficiently complete and replicable. However, the descriptions we have are too incomplete. A suggestion is made for how the field should take steps to remedy the weaknesses.
No one denies that the Boulder Conference on Clinical Psychology marked a turning point on American psychology. This paper by one of the three or four living participants lists the conference as one in which psychology was at a choice point, went in one and only one direction, without examining the possible consequences or the possibility of going in more than 1 direction. A second theme is that the APA has to be faulted for a lack of searching self-scrutiny of its past. Organizations, like individuals, resist such self-scrutiny.