So if an LPC has their doctoral degree in counseling and they have completed a two-year postdoctoral clinical psychopharmacology program, would they not have as much training as a psychologists who completed the two-year postdoctoral clinical psychopharmacology program? What if a LPC is also a nurse practitioner and has a MS in counseling and a MS in practical nursing, they can then prescribe.
No one has ever endorsed that a licensed psychologists or a licensed counselor without the additional psychopharmacology training should be allowed to prescribe psychotropic medications, did they?
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