Statement of the American Psychological Association for Submission to the Record of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education for Fiscal Year 2001

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Health And Human Services

scholarly journals Washington Hotline

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (9) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
Shawnda Hines
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
Conference Committee ◽  
The U.S

Premidterm election priorities in WashingtonWith just weeks to go before midterm elections, Congress is both making and delaying decisions on issues that are important to libraries.On September 13, the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations Committees released a conference committee report on fiscal year 2019 funding for programs under the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, which controls spending levels for many federal library programs.The news is good.

Behavioral Approaches to the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease: Research Strategies

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa S. Radebaugh ◽  
Neil Buckholtz ◽  
Zaven Khachaturian
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Senate Committee ◽  
Health And Human Services ◽  
Disease Research ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Senate Committee for Appropriations (for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies), in its report of the fiscal year 1994 appropriations bill, directed the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to develop a long-range plan for taking advantage of scientific opportunities in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research.

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.

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