Has anybody seen this article?? This is wild... It talks about the National Association of Professional Providers of Psychology training M.A.-level clinicians as psychologists under a new expedited 18-month degree and then getting them licensed as psychologists using loopholes in psychologist licensing rules.. These providers will then be working as health psychologists in hospitals.... What does everyone think about this?
Here is the excerpt:
A program was launched at Arizona State University recently that admitted 57 students embarking on a new degree, the doctor of behavioral health (DBH). All of the new students are practicing M.A. level psychotherapists with an average of more than seven years of experience. They will be taking classes and work year round with the expectation of completing the program including internship hours within 18 months.
"Psychology should continue to be the science for the psychological professions," he said, "but the new degree is freed from the plethora of irrelevant requirements that APA imposes on the Ph.D. and even the Psy. D." He expects that the DBH will be an integral part of the health system, serving as primary behavioral care providers who work in partnership with primary care physicians.
John Caccavale, Ph.D., executive director of NAPPP, said students from the DBH program will be eligible for licensure as psychologists in at least 26 states because of psychology equivalency provisions in the laws of those states. He predicts the DBH program will provide competition for the professional schools of psychology that are currently accredited by APA and are experiencing declining enrollment. The DBH program at Arizona State is accredited by the National Institute for Behavioral Health Quality.
Having been mentored by full-time academic faculty who earn salaries and typically have little background in business, Cummings said new practitioners are often economic illiterates who are determined to do good for society but who have limited realization of the economic reality that practice is a business with steep overhead costs on top of student loans to pay back.
http://nationalpsychologist.com/articles/art_v18n6_1.htm
Here is the excerpt:
A program was launched at Arizona State University recently that admitted 57 students embarking on a new degree, the doctor of behavioral health (DBH). All of the new students are practicing M.A. level psychotherapists with an average of more than seven years of experience. They will be taking classes and work year round with the expectation of completing the program including internship hours within 18 months.
"Psychology should continue to be the science for the psychological professions," he said, "but the new degree is freed from the plethora of irrelevant requirements that APA imposes on the Ph.D. and even the Psy. D." He expects that the DBH will be an integral part of the health system, serving as primary behavioral care providers who work in partnership with primary care physicians.
John Caccavale, Ph.D., executive director of NAPPP, said students from the DBH program will be eligible for licensure as psychologists in at least 26 states because of psychology equivalency provisions in the laws of those states. He predicts the DBH program will provide competition for the professional schools of psychology that are currently accredited by APA and are experiencing declining enrollment. The DBH program at Arizona State is accredited by the National Institute for Behavioral Health Quality.
Having been mentored by full-time academic faculty who earn salaries and typically have little background in business, Cummings said new practitioners are often economic illiterates who are determined to do good for society but who have limited realization of the economic reality that practice is a business with steep overhead costs on top of student loans to pay back.
http://nationalpsychologist.com/articles/art_v18n6_1.htm
