Interests of Doctoral Students in Clinical Psychology in Work with Older Adults1

T N ORDER to meet growing needs for services- ̂- for the maintenance of psychological health and for the treatment of adjustment problems of older persons, it is essential that current sources of trained personnel be expanded and new sources developed. Adjustment problems of the aged have been treated largely by psy-chiatrists and social workers. There are few clinical psychologists who work with the aged, and there are practically no schools which prepare clinical psychologists to work exclu-sively in this field. Clinical psychology, with its emphasis on research as well as practice, has the potential for making a much needed contribution to the solution of problems of adjustment among the aged