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1) The field of clinical psychology began in 1896 with the opening of the first psychological clinic at the University of Pennsylvania by Lightner Witmer to treat children with learning disabilities. 2) Clinical psychology grew out of both the psychometric tradition focusing on intelligence testing and the dynamic tradition focusing on psychotherapy. 3) World War I and World War II greatly accelerated the development of clinical psychology, as psychologists were called upon to develop mental tests for s

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Ananya

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