The Evolving Legacy of the American Psychological Association’s Division 37: Bridging Research, Practice, and Policy to Benefit Children and Families

2013 ◽  
pp. 271-290
Author(s):  
Georgianna M. Achilles ◽  
Sandra Barrueco ◽  
Bette L. Bottoms
Keyword(s):  
Research Practice ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
American Psychological

Resilience in children threatened by extreme adversity: Frameworks for research, practice, and translational synergy

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 493-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann S. Masten
Keyword(s):  
Research Evidence ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Resilience Theory ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Parallel Frameworks ◽  
Original Objective ◽  
Resilience Science

AbstractThis article delineates parallel frameworks that grew out of the research on risk and resilience over the past four decades, a framework for research and a framework for practice, and then discusses the promise of an emerging synthesis. The research framework defined the meaning, models, and methods that successfully guided four waves of research to date on the nature and processes involved in human resilience. The applied framework emerged in response to urgent needs of children and families faced by adversity and those charged with helping them, resulting in guidelines for translating the unfolding but incomplete research evidence into action. The application of a resilience approach transformed practice in many fields concerned with promoting resilience in people at risk for problems, revolutionizing the mission, models, measures, and methods of practice to align with the emphasis on positive adaptation and strengths defining a resilience-based approach. Yet these interventions rarely translated back to inform and refine resilience theory in ways that would accelerate progress to promote resilience more effectively. The concluding section on translational synergy discusses the potential for a synthesis of basic and applied resilience frameworks as the next steps toward realizing the original objective and promise of resilience science.

Fool’s Gold: Psychologists Using Disingenuous Reasoning to Mislead Legislatures into Granting Psychologists Prescriptive Authority

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-524
Author(s):  
Brent Pollitt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychotropic Medications ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Training Requirements ◽  
Prescriptive Authority

Mental illness is a serious problem in the United States. Based on “current epidemiological estimates, at least one in five people has a diagnosable mental disorder during the course of a year.” Fortunately, many of these disorders respond positively to psychotropic medications. While psychiatrists write some of the prescriptions for psychotropic medications, primary care physicians write more of them. State legislatures, seeking to expand patient access to pharmacological treatment, granted physician assistants and nurse practitioners prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications. Over the past decade other groups have gained some form of prescriptive authority. Currently, psychologists comprise the primary group seeking prescriptive authority for psychotropic medications.The American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (“ASAP”), a division of the American Psychological Association (“APA”), spearheads the drive for psychologists to gain prescriptive authority. The American Psychological Association offers five main reasons why legislatures should grant psychologists this privilege: 1) psychologists’ education and clinical training better qualify them to diagnose and treat mental illness in comparison with primary care physicians; 2) the Department of Defense Psychopharmacology Demonstration Project (“PDP”) demonstrated non-physician psychologists can prescribe psychotropic medications safely; 3) the recommended post-doctoral training requirements adequately prepare psychologists to prescribe safely psychotropic medications; 4) this privilege will increase availability of mental healthcare services, especially in rural areas; and 5) this privilege will result in an overall reduction in medical expenses, because patients will visit only one healthcare provider instead of two–one for psychotherapy and one for medication.

Lessons From the Da Vinci Code: Working with Bilingual/Multicultural Children and Families

ASHA Leader ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 14-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Rong L. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Da Vinci ◽  
Children And Families

CONGENITAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY. CARE OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (0) ◽  
pp. 53-57
Author(s):  
Karin Edebol Eeg-Olofsson
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Congenital Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Children And Families

Call for Papers: “Implementation Research, Practice, and Policy”

2012 ◽  
Vol 220 (4) ◽  
pp. 262-262
Author(s):  
Dean L. Fixsen ◽  
Terje Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Research ◽  
Research Practice
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