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ERIC Number: EJ684541
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Dec
Pages: 9
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-0003-066X
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Psychological Treatments
Barlow, David H.
American Psychologist, v59 n9 p869-878 Dec 2004
Psychology has recently identified itself as a health care profession and codified this change in the bylaws of the American Psychological Association. Although psychologists make a number of contributions to the nation's health-and mental health-the most identifiable activity focuses on treating physical or psychological pathology with psychological interventions. Recently, health care policymakers have established that evidence supporting the efficacy of these interventions is more than sufficient for their inclusion in health care systems around the world. To promote faster and more widespread dissemination of these interventions specifically targeting problems severe enough to be included in health care systems and to solidify the identification of psychology as a health care profession, perhaps it is time for a change in terminology. It is proposed that psychologists label these procedures psychological treatments so as to differentiate them from more generic psychotherapy, which is often used outside of the scope of health care systems.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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