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VOL. 15, NO. 2 :::
MARCH/APRIL,
2006
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Highlights from the Current Issue:
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Crimes raise confidentiality questions
Murder, suicide and rape – three of humanity’s darkest acts – have
prompted recent calls for changes in confidentiality standards for
psychotherapy, raising the question of whether client privacy rights
should be balanced against other societal interests.
Two of the calls for change seek to loosen the reins on the release
of information while the third seeks to strengthen confidentiality
protections.
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New testing codes create winners, losers
In January psychologists who perform testing services either had a
raise in income or a major reduction.
Why the change? For the first time in the history of third-party
payment for clinical services, testing codes have been assigned work
values and new regulations about their use.
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Psychologies of religious fundamentalists
In a two-year study, a group of psychoanalytically
oriented social scientists set out to study the psychologies of
religious fundamentalists and its conflicts with pluralism and human
rights, especially regarding women, as well as the potential for
violence, said Daniel Hill, Ph.D. a member of the study group.
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Federal suit seeks RxP for psychologists
By James Bradshaw
A group of RxP-trained
psychologists in California filed suit in the U.S. District
Court in Los Angeles contending that a state law barring
them from writing prescriptions denies treatment to
thousands suffering from mental illness.
John Caccavale, Ph.D. president of the California
Society of Clinical Psycho-pharmacologists, said the suit
against the state and Los Angeles County was filed Feb. 9 on
behalf of three plaintiffs – Melroy Walker, Tonia Jones and
Michael Shane Larson.
Six legs and a 30-year career
as a clinical psychologist
By Katherine Schneider, Ph.D.
I recently retired from a
30-year career as a clinical psychologist during which I
taught, counseled, supervised and administered counseling
services. I worked at four universities ranging in size from
5,000 students to 25,000 students and located in the east,
south and Midwest.
The most noteworthy part of this career may have been
that during it I was accompanied by seven different Seeing
Eye dogs. Their jobs were to give me the gift of confident
independent travel, but each one also played a role in the
conduct of my career whether I was teaching or counseling.
Is psychology’s race albatross nearing its end?
By Albert H. Yee, Ed.D.
I was stunned by the Jan.
‘05 American Psychologist “Genes, Race, and Psychology in
the Genome Era” — stunned because the AP is the American
Psychological Association’s (APA) flagship journal, and its
January issue flew in the face of APA’s historic refusal to
challenge the idea of biological race and racist studies.
Although kudos go to APA’s CEO and AP’s editor Norman B.
Anderson for this welcomed rainbow, AP hasn’t printed
reactions to the issue in more than a year and rejected
mine. Flies in the ointment or a consolidating pause before
the dawn?
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