Preparing psychology and psychologists for new health care markets.

Abstract

Because our training models in Clinical Psychology have not kept pace with the rapid changes in the health care marketplace, we may be in danger of preparing psychologists for markets that no longer exist. The next generations of psychologists will require the skills of the entrepreneur and the leader in addition to a range of core clinical skills. At the same time, our profession's historic commitment to science as the best epistemic game in town may founder if we fail to pay better attention to knowledge translation (i.e., how to move scientific findings expeditiously from the laboratory into practice).

Scientist versus Practitioner–An abridged meta-analysis of the changing role of psychologists

“…An example of this subordinate theme is taken from the King (2006) source: the skills of the entrepreneur and the leader, psychologists will be equipped not simply to react to marketplace changes in health care (King, 2006, p. 53) This extract represents the recurring opinion that clinical psychology should broadened its current paradigms and scope of influence, and while there is relatively little consensus regarding the precise nature of this (i.e., what areas clinical psychology should broaden into), the call for increased versatility is widespread.…”

“…Evidence for this subordinate theme includes several propositions for new models, most of which involve the inclusion of principles from other professional areas. An example of this subordinate theme is taken from the King (2006) source:…”

“…This demand, however, does not express the view that clinical psychologists should all be researchers, rather is describes what the current demands placed on the modern clinical psychology profession require. An example of this subordinate theme is taken from the King (2006) source:…”

“…The sources for the meta-analysis consisted of ten articles, which were published in a variety of psychology journals; Himelein and Putnam, 2001;Kenkel, DeLeon, Albino, and Porter, 2003;Arnett, 2005;King, 2006;O'Donovan and Dyck, 2005;Routh, 2000;Donn, Routh, and Lunt, 2000;Cassin, Singer, Dobson, and Altmaier, 2007;Baker and Benjamin Jr, 2000. These articles were all obtained from the Internet database (PsycARTICLES, 2007) and were selected through the application of two search parameters (see Appendix I for further details).…”

Análise do comportamento e saúde: levantamento e análise de artigos em bases de acesso livre

“…Diante das peculiaridades verifi cadas na divulgação científi ca atual, das críticas à ausência de práticas psicológicas sistematizadas nos ambientes médicos (Costa et al, 2012;Gorayeb & Guerrelhas, 2003), da noção dos desafi os histó-ricos enfrentados pelos psicólogos em relação à formação profi ssional, inserção e correspondên-cia às expectativas do mercado de trabalho da saúde (Glueckauf, 1999;King, 2006;Matarazzo, 1982;McNamara, 1981) e do reconhecimento de que as intervenções comportamentais geram a condição de saúde por meio de tratamentos com uma relação custo-benefício vantajosa e efetiva (Kaplan, 1990), entende-se como relevante investigar a produção científi ca brasileira de analistas do comportamento na Psicologia da Saúde disponível em bases de dados de acesso livre. Pretende-se apresentar e discutir características dos estudos recentes com embasamento analítico-comportamental que estão ao alcance de todos os profi ssionais da Psicologia, permitindo a aproximação entre a área médica e esse sistema psicológico, além de favorecer a atuação sob uma perspectiva unifi cada baseada em estudos sobre comportamento e saúde (Pomerleau, 1979;Reid, 1991;Smith, Kendall, & Keefe, 2002), com práticas mais efetivas às demandas de atendimento.…”