Psychologists have been attempting to gain a greater voice in the actions and policies of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH)for more than 10 years. This article outlines the formal and informal attempts that have been made during that period to remove barriers to the hospital practice of psychology. Included are discussions of direct interactions with the Joint Commission itself, state legislative efforts, the Ohio Attorney General's antitrust suit against the JCAH, and the Federal Trade Commissions proposed investigation. Attempts to make the JCAH responsive to psychology's concerns are chronicled. The gradual changes in JCAH policies, and suggestions of future changes, are presented.
In this article, we theorize a new conceptual framework of family strengths and resilience emerging at the intersection of indigenous and Western approaches to family systems. Our work acknowledges that there are universal tenets pertaining to family and family relations within many cultural paradigms, yet few family theories have included or integrated an indigenous lens. Here, we draw on ecosystemic and “wheel of life” worldviews to guide our work, recognizing that much of Western family science and indigenous ways of knowing view family life as relational, interdependent, and connected to larger ecosystems. To explicate our integrated framework of family strengths and resilience, we delineate five domains: family as a living organism, family connectedness to nature, family centering processes, family rituals, and transgenerational family relations. Last, we discuss implications of our conceptual framework for research and clinical family practice.
This article reviews the crisis that sunset legislation induced in organized psychology four years ago. A description of the sunset process is provided along with an analysis of the conditions under which psychology was forced to respond to this challenge. The strategy used to address the crisis is discussed and examples of problems encountered in several of the state-level efforts are provided. An overview of the results of psychology's effort to meet the crisis is presented. Organized psychology is seen as having made significant progress as a result of the impact of sunset legislation.
Reviews the history and current structure of the organization of psychology at the state level and discusses the development of a state-level advocacy capacity for psychology. Because state laws that govern the practice of psychology vary significantly, and because it is the state's responsibility to regulate professional activity, the preponderance of legal issues affecting the practice of psychology are issues of state, not federal, law. Psychologists have become aware of the needs for systematic organization and advocacy at the state level on behalf of their profession. This has involved an expansion in the scope of the state psychological associations' (SPA's) activity to provide advocacy in the legislative and policymaking arenas. Presently, the mission of the American Psychological Association's State Associations Program has expanded to provide consultations and technical assistance to the SPAs about a wide range of organization, administrative, governance, legislative, and policy advocacy issues. (12 ref)
Self-selected paraprofessional trainees enrolled in a helping skills training program participated in a 6-minute pretraining helping interview from which their frequency of continuing responses was obtained. Continuing responses allow helpees to present their concerns in a nonthreatening, supportive environment and are important in the relationship establishing stage of the helping process. For data analysis purposes only, trainees were divided into three groups, a high, medium, and low group, based on the frequency of continuing responses made. Following training, at posttest, no significant differences were found among the three groups on the amount of continuing responses made during a second identical 6-minute interview. Implications for various selection procedures and training are discussed.
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