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Room for a new standard? response to comments by Heiby
Author(s) -
McGrath Robert E.,
Muse Mark
Publication year - 2010
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.20658
Subject(s) - competence (human resources) , psychology , perspective (graphical) , applied psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , artificial intelligence , computer science
Heiby's (this issue, pp. XXX–XXX) claim that psychologists' training in psychopharmacology is substandard is predicated on the assumption that existing training models offer the only acceptable approach to achieving competence. This assumption both prohibits innovation and is demonstrably false. Our comparison of training models must be judged from the perspective of a reasoned analysis of the competencies most important to prescribing, not the claims of other professions. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 66:1–4, 2010.