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Prescription privileges for psychologists: Can differing views be reconciled?
Author(s) -
Heiby Elaine M.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.10056
Subject(s) - psychology , medical prescription , association (psychology) , legislature , psychotherapist , law , political science , medicine , nursing
Abstract This article introduces papers addressing reasons to oppose prescription privileges for psychologists. The articles are organized in terms of six topics that appear in the testimony presented to state legislatures by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology (AAAPP). The six topics concern whether there is a societal need for psychologists to practice medicine, whether psychology as a discipline has evolved in this direction, how training would change the discipline, what the addition of medical training would cost financially, if the current collaborative model is adequate, and how the policy of APA and AAAPP can be better understood. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 589–597, 2002.