The shortage of medical doctors involved in the practice of psychiatrist was part of the reason psychologists in Guam were granted the right recently to prescribe psychotropic medications, George Kallingal, Ph.D., a Guam psychologist, told The National Psychologist. Only five psychiatrists serve the island which consists of 160,000 residents and a million tourists a year. […]
Continue Reading ...In a pilot project dating to 1986, Health Partners, a large Minneapolis-St. Paul HMO, began to partner physicians and psychologists in the care of patients. We have learned a great during the intervening years about improving care, about recognizing more fully that the mind-body split is entirely artificial, about placing psychologists and other mental health […]
Continue Reading ...A one-time Beverly Hills psychologist who experienced a “spontaneous spiritual awakening” during a 1977 conference in Maui, Hawaii says Western psychological thought needs to incorporate spirituality in therapy if it is to ultimately succeed. Ronald L. Mann, Ph.D., who now lives and practices spiritual healing and coaching in Pacific Palisades, CA, has written a book […]
Continue Reading ...A Tibetan Buddhist monk, who is a practicing psychologist in Los Angeles, travels this month to New York City’s Beth Israel Hospital to train nurses in meditation and other Eastern spiritual techniques to help ease their patients’ mental pain of suffering and death. The monk, Losang Rabgyay, Ph.D., said he has developed a 15-hour training […]
Continue Reading ...Bringing 31,000 readers up-to-date psychology news and information has been The National Psychologist’s goal and practice since it began publishing in 1991. In preparation for this issue, we traveled to far-flung venues to bring readers first-hand accounts of a story with identical outcomes: The election, by decisive margins, of two psychologists to Congress. John Thomas, […]
Continue Reading ...Language contained in the last two federal budgets represents major breakthroughs in recognizing psychology as a full-fledged partner in the treatment of hospitalized patients for the first time. The key to winning that recognition is contained in both the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the $500 billion budget deal enacted Oct. 20 to fund […]
Continue Reading ...A legislative proposal to limit the practice of psychology in California to graduates of regionally approved schools will be opposed by the 21 state-approved graduate schools. “There will be a fight,” promised Al Ross, Ph.D., chief executive officer of Ryokan College, a state-approved, but not regionally accredited, psychology graduate school in Los Angeles. “It’s all […]
Continue Reading ...Approximately one in five adults in the United States is currently online. This figure pales in comparison to the two in three 12-19 year old children who are actively surfing the web. Since many of you work with children and parents, it is important to address the Good, Bad and Ugly of what has been […]
Continue Reading ...Those psychologists who winced two years ago when NIMH Director Steven Hyman, M.D., announced in a press release (see National Psychologist, November/December 1996, p.3) that “anxiety disorders, like other mental illnesses, reflect dysfunctions within the brain,” have reason to cry out with pain these days. Few days go by without data about the relationship between […]
Continue Reading ...Flowing downstream with the current combined with serendipitous timing were two ingredients that have helped Steven P. Dingfelder, Ph.D., a St. Augustine, FL psychologist, create a sound future. In private practice for nearly 15 years, he had built his solo practice into a small group, and had incorporated. Along the way, he developed a relationship […]
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