Norfleet Mary Ann
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2002 Jun;58(6):599-610. doi: 10.1002/jclp.10057.
The health care revolution has contributed to the natural evolution of the role of psychologists. This has led to the necessity for future psychologists to have the authority to prescribe psychotropic medications in order to offer the best-available, comprehensive treatment to the public. Psychologists' training gives them a unique role in addressing the psychosocial aspects of medical problems, in collaboration with primary-care physicians. Prescribing psychologists are cost-effective, many practice in rural areas where people have no other access to mental health care, and they will be able to treat other underserved populations such as the poor, the elderly, the chronically mentally ill, children, and prisoners in the criminal justice system. Prescribing psychologists will have an increasingly prominent role in future health care policy decisions and practice.
医疗保健革命推动了心理学家角色的自然演变。这使得未来的心理学家有必要获得开具精神药物的权力，以便为公众提供现有的最佳综合治疗。心理学家的培训使他们在与初级保健医生合作解决医疗问题的社会心理方面发挥独特作用。开具处方的心理学家具有成本效益，许多人在农村地区执业，那里的人们无法获得其他心理健康护理，而且他们将能够治疗其他服务不足的人群，如穷人、老年人、慢性精神病患者、儿童以及刑事司法系统中的囚犯。开具处方的心理学家在未来的医疗保健政策决策和实践中将发挥越来越突出的作用。
