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Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2003, pp. 81-83
© 2003 Society of Pediatric Psychology
Introduction to the Special Issue: Training in Pediatric Psychology
Medical University of South Carolina
All correspondence should be sent to Ronald T. Brown, College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, 19 Hagood Avenue, Suite 910, P.O. Box 250822, Charleston, South Carolina 29452. E-mail: brownron@musc.edu.
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When pediatric psychology began as a field of study nearly 35 years ago,
issues related to training clinical psychologists to practice dominated the
field (Tuma, 1975
,
1980,
1982;
Tuma & Grabert, 1983). At
inception, the field's constructs and terms needed to be explicated.
Investigation then proceeds, and the specialty becomes science. The Society of
Pediatric Psychology (SPP), formed in 1967, led to the Journal of
Pediatric Psychology, first published in 1975, which now showcases our
science as the prototype for scientific inquiry in pediatric psychology. The
Handbook of Pediatric Psychology defines the field as it was in the
late 1980s (Routh, 1988) and
in the mid-1990s (Roberts,
1995). In the early 1980s, information about the field of
pediatric psychology appeared in textbooks
(Drotar, Benjamin, Chwast, Litt, &
Vajner,
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