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VOL. 15, NO. 5 :::
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER,
2006
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Also in this issue:
Black psychologists gather in Cleveland
Culturally appropriate therapy must be tailored to the individual and can be greatly different for different clients – even for different black clients, the president of the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) said in an interview here during the association’s 38th annual international convention.
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A view from "The Hill"
The Sago mine disaster
Bruce Gilberg, Ph.D., a 2005-2006 APA Congressional Fellowship in the office of Senator Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia was placed in an excellent position to offer psychological input when Congress debated mine safety legislation in the wake of the Jan. 2 coal mine explosion in Sago, W. Va.
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Doing therapy outside the box
Evidence based treatment may be too confining
Frank M. Dattilio, Ph.D., says that it appears that evidence based treatment has become the gold standard in the mental health field, according to much of the contemporary literature (Edwards, Dattilio, & Bromley, 2004; Dattilio, 2006).
While there clearly exists conflict between those who favor evidence based treatment and those who do not (Ablon, Levy, & Katzenstein, 2006), the movement toward evidence based treatments is definitely on the rise (Norcross, Beutler, & Levant, 2005). While evidence based treatment has much to offer in terms of advancing clinical outcomes, it has also caused backlash in some areas, one of which is the manner of perception that some clinicians hold regarding the “person of the therapist.”
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Florida psychologists win right to treat sex offenders
By Richard E. Gill, Assistant Editor
In a last-minute meeting the Florida Psychological Association (FPA) defeated a Florida Board of Psychology (BOP) rule that would have required doctoral level psychologists to acquire thousands of additional hours of supervised training to treat and evaluate sexual offenders.
Proposed by the Florida Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (FATSA) and adopted by the BOP in February, the rule prevented psychologists holding doctoral degrees from treating or evaluating sexual offenders without first completing an additional 65 graduate hours, plus 2,000 hours of supervised training over a two-year period, said David Kazar,
Ph.D.
George Albee, Ph.D., was recognized for his early advocacy of prevention and other proactive approaches to mental health.
His 1959 landmark book, Mental Health Manpower Trends, influenced the study commission appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower and his ideas incorporated concepts of
consultation and prevention in a proposed community mental health system.
A profession in search of legitimacy
By Thomas A. Habib, Ph.D.
Well, it’s happened. Managed Health Network (MHN) will provide
"priority consideration" to those elite clinicians who practice
"Empirically Supported Treatment."
What’s wrong with our professional associations promoting empirical verification regarding
what works and doesn’t work in psychotherapy you might ask?
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