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VOL. 15, NO. 4 :::
JULY/AUGUST,
2006
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Hurricane Katrina and Rita: Updates from the Gulf Coast: Three different perspectives on the hurricanes, their devastation, the clean up and the aftermath.
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Our Second Annual Book Review Special Section. Four book reviews tell
about: counseling members of the NYFD and their families after the 9/11
attacks, universal health care, working with stepfamilies and
fascinating legal cases with psychological interface.
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Robert Erard, Ph.D. and F. Barton Evans, Ph.D. defend the use of the
Rorschach in a "Viewpoint" article.
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Ofer Zur, Ph.D. defends his statement that HIPAA 'Psychotherapy Notes'
are not yet legally defined.
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Much more.
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National advocacy group for practicing psychologists unveiled
By James Bradshaw, Assistant Editor
A respected group of practicing psychologists has formed a national action organization to overcome what they see as inaction by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the professional community as a whole on issues of importance to practitioners.
The National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers (NAPPP) was unveiled July 1 through an advertising campaign and a website (www.nappp.org) promising prospective members assertive leadership to “protect and advance scope of practice issues through lobbying, legislative and litigation strategies.”
Pikes Peak Model is geropsychology first
By Paula Hartman-Stein, Ph.D.
Other than an occasional continuing education course or reading journal articles or textbooks on aging,
"generalist" psychologists who want to become proficient in working with older adults have had no specific model to follow...until very recently.
Fifty leaders in research and practice of clinical geropsychology met at a national training conference here to create the Pikes Peak model outlining multiple pathways that lead to
"gero-competence."
Psychologists’ job outlook: Good news and bad
By James Bradshaw, Assistant
Editor
There’s good news for psychologists as a whole in the latest occupational outlook from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics
- but not necessarily for independent practitioners.
"Overall employment of psychologists is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2014,” states the 2006-07 Edition of the bureau’s Occupational Outlook Handbook.
But the devil’s in the details.
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