The Houston Conference on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology was held at the University of Houston from September 3 through September 7, 1997 (Hannay et al. 1998). Although there had been previous outlines of training in clinical neuropsychology (e.g., Meier 1981), the Houston Conference grew out of a shared perception that the field had matured to the extent that an integrated and comprehensive model of training was needed (Bieliauskas 1998). As noted in the preamble of the guidelines, clinical neuropsychology had recently been recognized as a specialty by the American Psychological Association and the Canadian Psychological Association, but there had been no widely recognized and accepted description of a training model for the specialty. Appropriate to the goal of filling this gap, the stated aim of the Houston Conference was to “advance an aspirational, integrated model of specialty training in clinical neuropsychology” (Hannay et al. 1998).
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Jones, R.D., Tranel, D. (2018). Houston Conference. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_9259
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