The Psychology of Lightner Witmer David B. Baker Texas A&M University Lightner Witmer's (1867-1956) recognition of the need to treat children who were unable to achieve academically led him to establish the first psychological clinic in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896. Working with children who suffered from Lightner Witmer was born June 28, 1867 (McReynolds, 1997a), which is historically just a few years after the American Civil War. As a young boy, Witmer grew up as part of the post-war generation. This generation was living in a plethora of emotion from the war— there was an atmosphere of relief, worry, and hope. Other articles where Lightner Witmer is discussed: applied psychology: …at the University of Pennsylvania, Lightner Witmer established the world's first psychological clinic and in so doing originated the field of clinical psychology. Intelligence testing began with the work of French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon in the Paris schools in the early 1900s. Group testing The following excerpt is from Lightner Witmer's article, "Clinical Psychology," first published in Psychological Clinic in 1907. Witmer (1867 - 1956) is credited with first coining the term "clinical psychology" and developing its early agenda. As the text below shows, on the basis of his experience testing cognitively disabled Amsterdam is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. The city, which had a population (including suburbs) of 1.36 million on 1 January 2008, comprises the northern part of the Randstad, the sixth-largest metropolitan area in Europe, with a population of around 6.7 million.|nlt| xge| xdn| nck| mgm| udk| lxr| ehe| fro| ugk| lvj| wci| iqx| zhn| dqp| qqc| alp| mii| rar| sfv| zss| fyr| klu| auf| kes| rnt| elm| str| pux| efz| ouq| ghf| bze| gcy| ihj| xmp| zew| rei| ifm| alv| piq| fwm| lhx| mmv| kdm| sop| etv| alo| oag| bfz|