Hi Annette: The Boulder Model originated in an influential 1949 conference at the Univesity of Colorado at Boulder; inaugurated by David Shakow (in many ways, the father of modern clinical psychology training) that conference was indeed the formal birth of the scientist-practitioner (S-P) model. The UC-Boulder clinical program was always one of the exemplar programs of this model.
But more and more, Boulder model programs are discouraging students with primary career interests in clinical practice from applying for graduate school, largely because dozens and dozens of Psy.D programs are already available to do that (and there's no research evidence that Ph.D.s are associated with superior therapy outcomes to Psy.D.s). Also, the costs of graduate training at most clinical psychology programs are enormous (e.g., at Emory, we fund offer guaranteed funding for 4 years, with full tuition remissiion, about a $17,000 a year stipend, coverage of health insurance and other fees; and our clinical program is not markedly atypical from other clinical Ph.D. programs), and many graduate programs do not want to invest >$100,000 and years of research training in a student who will go out and perform full-time therapy, especially when there is no evidence (and pretty good evidence to the contrary from meta-analyses) that their treatment outcomes will be superior to those of B.A. level paraprofessionals (I have decidedly mixed feelings about this argument, but take it for what it is). Many of these clinical psychology programs (those that are training students primarily for research settings) are now coming to refer to themselves as "clinical science" (a term coined by Indiana University's Dick McFall in the early 1990s) programs; I see from their website that UC-Boulder continues to refer to itself as an S-P rather than as a clinical science program, perhaps for historical reasons (I'm not sure). Still, even those S-P programs whose primary goal is to train researchers are required by APA (well, actually the Committee on Accreditation, or CoA, which is recognized by APA - it gets really complicated) to provide students with balanced training, and with a heatlhy mix of both research and first-hand cliinical experience (including a required one-year clinical internship). The rationale here is that direct exposure to the clinical phenomena of interest is important (if not essential) for effective research. Also, these programs recognize that many research settings (e.g., in medical schools) are actually combined research-clinical settings, and many of them are placing their bets that the treatment model of the future will increasingly consist of structured (e.g., manualized, prescriptive) therapy by B.A. level-practitioners, with supervision and consultation from doctoral-level psychologists. I've never heard of the Denver Model (although it's a treatment for autism). The alternative model is typically called the Vail Model, which was adopted in a 1973 conference in Vail, Colorado (historically, such conferences are lengthy and often been held at sites with good skiiing...) and is now embraced by most Psy.D. programs. The Vail Model is essentially a scholar-professional model (or practitioner-scholar model): the goal here is to train practitioners who are independent scholars - individuals who don't necessarily conduct research but are capable of consuming and interpreting the research literature independently. Some of us, however, have referred to the Vail Model as "paradigm lost" - regrettably, few Psy.D. programs, I would argue, have lived up to the laudable goals of the scholar-professional model. But there is a long story here that would be better saved for a different (and less historical and momentous) morning. ....Scott ________________________________ From: Peter Kepros [pkep...@nbnet.nb.ca] Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:09 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Clinical training: Boulder and Denver Annette: There is a description of the Boulder Model at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist%E2%80%93practitioner_model . The Wikipedia article corresponds with my memory of the model's development. Peter Kepros Professor and Dean Emeritus University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB E3B 2B2 Canada At 11:57 PM 10/09/2011, you wrote: Hi Tipsters: >From the largest city of the great blackout, I bring you a query--now that we >all have power again: The Boulder model: to the best of my knowledge is the model for PhD clinical training in psychology that is a scientist/practitioner model, preparing students to become both practicing psychologists and researchers and teachers. Interestingly, the program at Boulder, CO, on its website tells students NOT to apply to their program if they want to work as clinicians; rather their program is designed to develop students to become researchers and teachers. Now I know I should not confuse Boulder model with U of CO, Boulder, BUT is this a bit of an irony? That said, more recently I have heard people talk about a "Denver" model which is more of a practitioner model. 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