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VOL. 15, NO. 1 :::
JANUARY/FEBRUARY,
2006
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Margaret Sears, president of a practice management and
bill collecting firm tells how to get paid for your work and where
clinical practice and money intersect.
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Thomas W. White, Ph.D., wonders if evidence-based
practice is the answer to correctional mental health treatment? To
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A new and effective treatment for addiction is now an
option and is a reasoned and practical approach, according to Thomas
Horvath, Ph.D., ABPP, and president of SMART Recovery. He calls his
program “the world’s leading secular addiction support group, offering
science-based, self-empowering support groups to help individuals
overcome any addictive behavior.
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At the recent White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA)
78 percent of the 1,200 delegates voted to support the resolution for
training of geriatric education for health care professionals. In stark
contrast, legislators a few blocks away later that week played out a
very different agenda. Congress voted to eliminate all funding through
the Bureau of Health Professions (Title VII) for geriatric training,
including geriatric psychiatry and geropsychology fellowships, academic
career awards for geriatricians and the operation of 50 nationwide
geriatric education centers.
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The Insanity Defense in Forensic Practice
By David Shapiro, Ph.D.
Early in November, the Texas
Supreme Court announced its decision to reverse and remand
for a new trial, the case of Andrea Yates. It will be
recalled that Yates, despite the abundant evidence of severe
mental illness was convicted of killing her five children by
drowning them in a bath tub. While the reversal was not
totally unexpected because the expert for the prosecution
gave testimony that was inaccurate, the decision of the
Texas Supreme Court focused attention on an issue that has
been hotly debated for decades now, what the appropriate
standard for legal insanity should be.
White House Conference on Aging:
Symbolic victory for mental health?
By Paula Hartman-Stein, Ph.D.
At the recent White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA) 78 percent of the 1,200 delegates voted to support the resolution for training of geriatric education for health care professionals, ranking it sixth among 73 resolutions, which was touted by professional groups as a victory for geriatric mental health care.
In stark contrast, legislators a few blocks away later that week played out a very different agenda. Congress voted to eliminate all funding through the Bureau of Health Professions (Title VII) for geriatric training, including geriatric psychiatry and geropsychology fellowships, academic career awards for geriatricians and the operation of 50 nationwide geriatric education centers.
Economics, politics and psychological practice
By Ronald E. Fox, Psy.D., Ph.D.
Like many of their fellow citizens, psychologists often are content with the
"spin" coming out of Washington about a growing economy and the prosperity that is predicted to follow. Such Pablum is the kind of nonsensical, non-critical thinking that we can no longer afford, either as a country or as a profession. Too many psychologists claim to be much too busy with their practice to worry about economics or the endless clamor of Washington politics. They could not be more mistaken.
Psychologist’s murder remains mystery
Police report no suspects in the slaying of Ira Polonsky, Ph.D., in his Vallejo, Calif., office building on Nov. 1.
Polonsky, 64, was found just after 6 p.m. bleeding from a shotgun blast to the abdomen after police and medical workers responded to a 911 call and found him in a hallway of the office building where he saw patients two days a week. He was taken to nearby Kaiser Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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