2019 Volume 59 Issue 2 Pages 150-154
In Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University, the Department of Clinical Psychology was established in 2018. The aim of this establishment is to educate and train clinical psychologists who have more medical knowledge than usual education units in non-medical department of psychology. We performed an investigation about needs of clinical psychologists having enough medical knowledge to several medical or welfare institutions and municipal corporations in preparation of application to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. As a results, many institutes agreed our image of clinical psychologist and had positive thinking about employment of those psychologists. In association with authorization of Certified Public Psychologist, social concern and expectation for psychologist are thought to be rising. I will discuss expected role and talent of clinical psychologist in this paper.
