The Archives of the History of American Psychology: An Interview with David B. Baker

Abstract

Loreto R. Prieto is an assistant professor of Counseling Psychology at The University of Akron. Active in the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP), Prieto currently serves as the Chair of the Task Force on Diversity, recently completed a term on the Long Range Planning Committee, and has served on several other working groups and committees associated with STP. He was the Chair of the Working Group on Diversity for the American Psychological Association Psychology Partnerships Project. David B. Baker is the Director of the Archives of the History of American Psychology and an associate professor of Psychology at The University of Akron. A counseling psychologist by training, he received his PhD from Texas A & M University in 1988. He has written on the history of school and counseling psychology. He coauthored and coedited with Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., a special section of the American Psychologist in February 2000 that examined the 50th anniversary of the Conference on Graduate Education in Clinical Psychology (more commonly known as the “Boulder Conference”). Baker has a long-standing interest in the rise of professional psychology in America and is coauthor with Benjamin of a forthcoming book on that subject that will be published by Harcourt Brace.