The Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology (SDSU/UCSD) Records (1959-2007) document the creation and development of the clinical psychology joint doctoral degree program. The collection also includes materials relating to the formation of the Child Abuse Interdisciplinary Training Program of San Diego, technical reports by Dr. Alan Litrownik and his colleagues, and a small collection of SDSU Department of Psychology materials. While some materials date as early as 1959 and as late as 2007, the bulk of the collection spans 1974 to 1995. The collection includes reports, meeting minutes, proposals, thesis abstracts, grant applications, correspondence, syllabi, and promotional materials. Arranged alphabetically, this collection is divided into five series: Joint Doctoral Program Files (1959-2007), Child Abuse Interdisciplinary Training Program Files (1986-1997), Research Studies and Reports (1978-2006), SDSU Department of Psychology Files (1962-1992), and Psychology Publications (1967-1989).

The Joint Doctoral Program Files contain planning and development documents, including materials from the Joint Doctoral Steering Committee, the Curriculum Committee, and the Graduate Student Selection Committee. The series also contains materials from a variety of clinical psychology programs offered at other academic institutions, gathered as models for developing the program at SDSU/UCSD. Highlights of the collection include various drafts and revisions of the joint doctoral proposal, as well as the history of the development of the program, which offers a chronology of the milestones during its eleven years in development. Also prominent in the series are thesis oral defenses, spanning thirty years, which contain abstracts of student thesis topics.

The Child Abuse Interdisciplinary Training Program Files document the various stages in the development of interdisciplinary training programs focused on child maltreatment. The bulk of the series is comprised of materials from two separate federally funded grants: the Child Abuse Interdisciplinary Training Program of San Diego and the San Diego Interdisciplinary Child Welfare Training (ICWT) Project. The former grant was originally awarded to ten universities around the country, and the collection includes grantee meeting minutes as well as materials from all ten grantee projects.

The Research Studies and Reports series includes reports on a variety of research studies, primarily centered on child maltreatment. Prominent in this series are records from the consortium for Longitudinal Studies in Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN), a multi-site 20-year longitudinal research study.

The bulk of the SDSU Department of Psychology Files correlate with Dr. Alan Litrownik’s tenure as Chair of Department of Psychology, from 1981 through 1986. The series includes department meeting minutes and bulletins, as well as Litrownik’s correspondence with alumni from the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. The series also includes the early development of the clinical training model adopted by the department, including proposals and meeting minutes which date from 1962.

The Psychology Publications series consists of two folders. One folder includes the first two issues of the American Psychological Society newsletter, published in 1988 and 1989, and the other folder contains the charter issue of Psychology Today magazine, published in 1967.