Mediocrity is no standard: searching for self-respect in Clinical Neuropsychology

While medicine moved from a training based in proprietary schools to university-based education and board specialty examinations during the early part of this century, psychology has seemed to move in the opposite direction during the past 20 years. Clinical Neuropsychology, as a specialty, has established training and practice guidelines, and more recently, produced an integrated model of education and training, not unlike the models developed by medicine and its specialties. Nevertheless, there are pressures within the field of Psychology in general, and Clinical Neuropsychology in particular, to abrogate standards and weaken credentials. These pressures are seen as stemming from prioritizing the interests of the practitioner over the needs of the patient and the profession. The thesis is presented that upholding standards leads to the benefit of the patient and the long-term health of the profession.