Abstract: For American clinical psychology, because of the influences from the society, psychological organizations, and its own factors, there exist different training models in different eras. The paper chooses five representative models, including the“scientist-practitioner” model, the “practitioner-scholar” model, the “clinical psychological scientist” model, “local clinical scientist” model, and the “evidence-based practioner” model. It has introduced the characteristics and developing rules of the training models of American clinical psychology since 1949. It points out that the “evidence-based practioner” model has avoided the other four training models’ tendency of individualism. This model divides the “scientist-practitioner” group to be two separate groups: “scientist” and “practioner”, stresses that the practioners should obey the best evidences provided by scientists and take the patient’s charicteristics, culture and value into consideration and practice under the supervising of the managers. This model represents the developing trend of the training models of the contemporary clinical psychology.

Key words: “scientist-practitioner” model, “practitioner-scholar” model, “clinical psychological scientist” model, “local clinical scientist” model, “evidence-based practitioner” model