This presidential address is based on a personal mentoring history. It begins by examining two pioneering women in clinical psychology, Dr. Mildred Bessie Mitchell and Lillian Shuck Wolfe. Topics examined are: (1) factors that led them to choose a career in clinical psychology; (2) whether they think it is important for women in clinical training…

Traditional and revised models of psychological training fail to prepare graduate students to be teachers or effective faculty members. This paper addresses the mentoring needed by graduate psychology students who aspire to academic positions. The mentoring of future academicians requires different processes than the mentoring of future clinical…