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Prescription Privileges (prescription + privilege)

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Psychology100%

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It Is Time for a Moratorium on Legislation Enabling Prescription Privileges for Psychologists

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Issue 3 2002
Elaine M. Heiby
The prescription privileges proposal may be one of the most widely debated and divisive issues organized psychology has ever faced. I argue that the concerns raised and evidence presented by Robiner et al. in this issue's article opposing prescription privileges justify an immediate review of American Psychological Association (APA) policy on prescription privileges and an accompanying moratorium on enabling legislation. It is critical that both basic and applied psychologists appreciate that the proposal is not just a professional and consumer protection issue, but fundamentally a training issue that would overhaul the nature of the entire discipline. Concerns raised include the viability of university-based departments of psychology and thereby the maintenance of psychological science and its evidence-based applications. [source]

Responding to society's needs: Prescription privileges for psychologists

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 6 2002
Mary Ann Norfleet
The health care revolution has contributed to the natural evolution of the role of psychologists. This has led to the necessity for future psychologists to have the authority to prescribe psychotropic medications in order to offer the best-available, comprehensive treatment to the public. Psychologists' training gives them a unique role in addressing the psychosocial aspects of medical problems, in collaboration with primary-care physicians. Prescribing psychologists are cost-effective, many practice in rural areas where people have no other access to mental health care, and they will be able to treat other underserved populations such as the poor, the elderly, the chronically mentally ill, children, and prisoners in the criminal justice system. Prescribing psychologists will have an increasingly prominent role in future health care policy decisions and practice. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 599,610, 2002. [source]

It Is Time for a Moratorium on Legislation Enabling Prescription Privileges for Psychologists

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, Issue 3 2002
Elaine M. Heiby
The prescription privileges proposal may be one of the most widely debated and divisive issues organized psychology has ever faced. I argue that the concerns raised and evidence presented by Robiner et al. in this issue's article opposing prescription privileges justify an immediate review of American Psychological Association (APA) policy on prescription privileges and an accompanying moratorium on enabling legislation. It is critical that both basic and applied psychologists appreciate that the proposal is not just a professional and consumer protection issue, but fundamentally a training issue that would overhaul the nature of the entire discipline. Concerns raised include the viability of university-based departments of psychology and thereby the maintenance of psychological science and its evidence-based applications. [source]