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VOL. 14, NO. 4 :::
JULY/AUGUST,
2005
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Highlights from the Current Issue:
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'Combat psychologist' honored
More than a half century after the
fighting, a California psychologist has been awarded the Bronze Star for
serving as the Army's first "combat psychologist" during the Korean War.
Richard Blum, Ph.D., now 77 years old,
went to Korea in 1952 as a member of the 212th Psychiatric Detachment, a
classified experimental unit designed to treat soldiers on the scene for
the psychological traumas of war.
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Wyoming psychologist thrives on fabric of
his community
A self-described cheerleader for rural
mental health services says his clients include members of at least 25
percent of the families in the Wyoming community where he has practiced
since 1980.
Charles W. Rodgers, Ph.D., is the only full-time psychologist in
private practice in Riverton and one of only two or three in Fremont
County, a jurisdiction one-and-a-half times the size of Connecticut with a
population of 37,000, surrounded by the Wind River Indian Reservation in
the heart of cowboy country.
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Working conditions unique for reality show
psychologists
Liza Siegel is probably one of the few
psychologists whose workday has included battling a cobra.
Siegel, a Ph.D., from Berkeley, Calif., is the
psychologist-on-location for the CBS-TV show Survivor. During a shoot in
Thailand, she was relaxing with some of the crew in her hotel, and the
snake struck – fortunately hitting only the other side of the glass door.
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Other highlights in this issue:
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The Practice Special Assessment: ... 20
years later by Ronald E. Fox, Ph.D. and Wade Pickren, Ph.D.
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The National Psychologist's Book Review
Special Section reviews four books worth reading.
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Career opportunities abound for mental
health services in many prison settings.
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Mental health care for
needy to plummet if Medicaid is cut
By Richard E. Gill
Assistant Editor
The poor will be the first to fall through the cracks of mental
health care if a proposed $10 billion cut in Medicaid passes. Pitfalls
that await them are jail, prison and an increase in the number of
suicides.
“The problem is that these people will continue to need services
and so they will essentially fall through the cracks in the mental
health service delivery system and wind up in other kinds of settings,
most likely, and unfortunately, in jails and prisons,” warned Judy
Stange, Ph.D., senior director of research and services for the
National Mental Health Association. Regrettably, she also believes the
number of suicides will increase.
National Register helps
newer psychologists to relocate
By James Bradshaw
Assistant Editor
Of the three organizations that maintain credentials records to aid
psychologists in relocating from one jurisdiction to another, only the
National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology is accessible to
those with less than five years in practice.
California psychologists win
state hospital privileges
By John Thomas
Associate Editor
Fifteen years after the California Supreme Court ruled that
psychologists have full hospital privileges, the state’s Department of
Health Services issued new regulations extending those rights to
psychologists at acute care state hospitals.
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