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VOL. 16, NO. 6 :::
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER,
2007
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Also in this issue:
PDM valuable in identifying high-risk patients
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) can assist an expert witness in malpractice cases where psychologists have missed the psychopathic or borderline traits in patients says Robert M. Gordon, Ph.D.
Psychopathy can be a complex personality pattern that combines with or is obscured by other personality patterns, and borderline can be viewed as an entire level of personality organization that can be applied to the various personality disorders.
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Sex in the stone city -- behind prison walls
There are multiple opportunities/roles for psycJ. Tyler Carpenter, Ph.D., says that getting inmate-patients who are incarcerated to really talk about sex is one of the hardest things for a mental health professional in a prison setting. Just talking about sex, let alone doing the dirty deed, can get a person in trouble or make the legal situation they’re in even tougher.
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Psychologists must protect tests and terminology
According to a Viewpoint article, David Kazar, Ph.D. says psychologists have been grappling with how best to address the increasing frequency of non-psychologists’ use of psychological testing and the use of the term psychologist. ... Related to this is the use of psychological testing, the quality and skill base required for psychological testing and labeling the work product from the use of such assessments.
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Psychology gains major role in defining qualify care
By Paula Hartman-Stein, Ph.D.
Washington, D.C. – In a historic debate and vote by members of a key health care alliance, psychology and other healthcare professions made a giant step toward greater parity with medicine in the national healthcare scene.
At its fall meeting, the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA) provided psychology for the first time with voting privileges to decide the merits of over 70 quality improvement measures impacting areas of medical practice ranging from anesthesiology to oncology.
Building a practice by specializing
By Ari Tuckman, Psy.D., M.B.A.
There are plenty of clinicians out there, so how do you distinguish yourself? How do you increase the odds that a potential client calls you rather than someone else?
Many of us practice in areas that have a fair number of other equally qualified professionals. Although we have all received at least something of a generalist education, most of us tend to evolve toward certain populations or clinical conditions, unless you live in an underserved area that forces everyone to be a generalist.
PsyUSA serves psychologists well
By Richard E. Gill
Assistant Editor
An online network that began in 1995 with eight subscribers designed as a vehicle in which psychologists could exchange information about their profession has grown to about 1,200 members, says Dennis Elias, Ph.D., owner of the PsyUSA network.
The listserv was the creation of John R. Rorabach, Ph.D., who saw how the Internet would benefit psychologists.
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