Details

Edition

First edition.

Description

1 online resource (xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Note

At head of title: 100 years.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The historical roots of the American Psychological Association / Thomas C. Cadwallader -- Origins and early years of the American Psychological Association : 1890 to 1906 / Michael M. Sokal -- Growing pains : the American Psychological Association from 1903 to 1920 / Rand B. Evans -- The American Psychological Association and World War I : 1914 to 1919 / Thomas M. Camfield -- The APA between the World Wars : 1918 to 1941 / Franz Samelson -- The power of service : World War II and professional reform in the American Psychological Association / James H. Capshew and Ernest R. Hilgard -- Rapid growth and change at the American Psychological Association : 1945 to 1970 / Meredith P. Crawford.

Growth, conflict, and public policy : the American Psychological Association from 1970 to 1985 / Michael S. Pallak -- The American Psychological Association : 1985 to 1992 / Raymond D. Fowler -- Women in the American Psychological Association / Elizabeth Scarborough -- The American Psychological Association and social responsibility / M. Brewster Smith -- The APA knowledge dissemination program : an overview of 100 years / Gary R. VandenBos -- Statistical data on the American Psychological Association / Elizabeth Q. Bulatao, Robert Fulcher, and Rand B. Evans.

Summary

This volume, published as part of the APA [American Psychological Association] centennial celebration, demonstrates how the association evolved in response to intellectual, cultural, political, and economic historical developments. Nine chronological chapters discuss the personalities and events, the successes and failures, that molded the APA and transformed it from a small organization of 26 academician-researcher members to one of the largest professional associations in the United States and in the world, with a membership of over 100,000 academicians, scientists, and practitioners. Three other chapters offer a look at the association in terms of the role of women, of its conception of social responsibility, and of its mandate to disseminate knowledge to its own members and beyond. . . . This volume clearly demonstrates that, because the American Psychological Association began so early in the development of modern psychological thought, its history and development have been intimately bound up with the development of the field as a whole. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

Note

Description based on print version record.

Form

Also issued in print.

Issued By

Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection.

Note

GMD: electronic resource.

Subject

American Psychological Association -- History.

Societies, Scientific.

Psychology -- history -- United States.

Societies -- United States.

Added Author

Evans, Rand B.

Sexton, Virginia Staudt.

Cadwallader, Thomas C.

American Psychological Association.

Added Title

100 years.

One hundred years.

Other Form:

American Psychological Association (DLC) 91035825