During the past 50 years, there has been remarkable progress in the articulation of psychological theory, increasingly sophisticated reports of empirical research, and a dramatic expansion in professional applications of psychology in all areas of modern life.
Applied psychology requires both a sound scientific foundation and attention to the practical problems that are encountered in applying psychology to an infinite variety of life settings. Growing public recognition of the potential contributions of psychology to solving life’s problems has also fostered rapid growth in the number of psychologists who are engaged in research and in professional practice throughout the world. The need for an authoritative publication that reviews and evaluates the numerous applications of professional psychology has been recognized for a number of years, and has been of special interest to the members of the International Association of Applied
Psychology (IAAP), the world’s oldest and largest membership organization of individual psychologists. The interests and concerns of IAAP members, who reside in more than 80 countries, have been strongly noted by
former IAAP presidents Edwin A. Fleishman, Claude Levy-Leboyer, and Harry C. Triandis. Significant contributions to international applications of psychology were explicitly recognized and discussed in the context of their diverse societal settings by Bernhard Wilpert in his Presidential address at the IAAP’s 24th International Congress of
Applied Psychology in 1998. It was my honor and pleasure to succeed Professor Wilpert as President of the IAAP at this Congress, which was held in San Francisco, California, and to begin participating in discussions to identify the most important contributions to applied psychology that are reported in this encyclopaedia.
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