ERIC Number: EJ932731
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 9
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Psychology Practice: Design for Tomorrow
Goodheart, Carol D.
American Psychologist, v66 n5 p339-347 Jul-Aug 2011
This article offers a blueprint for modernizing the delivery of high-quality behavioral health care and for improving access to care by a public sorely in need of psychological services. The blueprint brings together disparate elements of psychology practice into a more unified structure, an updated house, based upon advances in the essential building blocks: evidence-based practice, treatment guidelines, technology, classifications of function, diagnostic systems, outcomes measurement, and integrated health care. The goal is twofold: to make psychological services more accessible to the public and to position psychology for an increasingly major role in health care in order to serve the public weal in diverse communities. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Evidence, Psychological Services, Psychology, Intervention, Evaluation, Psychologists, Health Care Costs, Accountability, Patients, Access to Health Care, Health Education, Health Services
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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