Theodore H. Blau

Theodore H. Blau was a noted clinical, police and forensic psychologist who was the first clinician in independent practice to be elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1977. [cite web
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title= Noted psychologist Theodore Blau
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accessdate=2007-09-14 ] He was a prolific writer and wrote, among other books and articles, a well known book on Forensic psychology.cite book
first=Theodore H.
last= Blau
year=1984
title=The Psychologist as Expert Witness
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publisher=John Wiley & Sons
location=New York
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History

Dr. Blau earned his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from Pennsylvania State University and completed his residency at the Veterans Administration hospital in Perry Point, Maryland. He was an early adherent to B. F. Skinner and Kenneth B. Clark. After moving to Tampa, Florida in 1955, he developed a successful private clinical practice, specializing in child psychology, cognitive psychology, and behavior modification. Dr. Blau became prominent over the next 30 years in academic and clinical psychology. He later specialized in forensic psychology but never gave up his clinical practice and wrote technical books in the field.cite book
first=Theodore H.
last= Blau
year=1988
title=Psychotherapy Tradecraft: The Technique and Style of Doing Therapy
edition=
publisher=Brunner Mazel
location=New York
pages=
id= ISBN 0-87630-476-X]

The Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology is an annual award bestowed in his honor by the American Psychological Association, Division 12, The Society of Clinical Psychology: "The Theodore H. Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology will be given by the Division of Clinical Psychology to a Clinical Psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession of Clinical Psychology." [cite web
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title=American Psychological Association, Division 12, The Society of Clinical Psychology
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accessdate=2007-09-14 ]

Footnotes

elected works

* Blau T.H. (1950). Report on a method of predicting success in psychotherapy. "Journal of Clinical Psychology", 6 (4), 403-406.
* Blau, T.H. (1969). The professional in the community views the nonprofessional helper:. In Grosser, Cl, Henry, W.E. & Kelly, J.E. (Eds.), "Nonprofessionals in the Suman Services". San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
* Blau, T.H. (1984). Foreword in Kaslow, F. (Ed.) "Psychotherapy with Psychotherapists". New York: John Wiley & Sons.