Specialization in Psychology and Health Care Reform

Kaslow, Nadine J.; Graves, Chanda C.; Smith, Chaundrissa Oyeshiku

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“…Bent et al. (, ) and Kaslow, Graves and Smith () discuss the potentially increasing importance of board certification as health reform unfolds. Kaslow et al.…”

Section: Trends In Board Certification Of Psychologistsmentioning

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To Be or Not to Be Board Certified? A Question of Quality and Identification for Psychologists

Robiner

Fossum

2017

J Appl Biobehavioral Res

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Achieving board certification in psychology is an important step in a psychologist's professional development. Board certification serves as a quality indicator for consumers, employers, and other stakeholders while providing enhanced opportunities for psychologists who complete the peer-review process that leads to it. This commentary provides an update on trends in board certification in psychology and explores the roles and benefits of board certification as well as barriers to pursuing board certification. Board certification is an important issue to consider because more mental and physical healthcare clinicians and researchers are now embracing the biopsychosocial model. Board certification could well help with maximizing reimbursement or clinical opportunities, as well as produce a greater understanding of the biobehavioral underpinnings of comorbid mental and physical disorders. Specialist data from the American Board of Professional Psychology and membership data from the American Psychological Association were reviewed across specialty areas. The work was archival and involved no human subjects, and therefore, this study was exempt from review by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Minnesota. There are currently 4,198 board certifications across the 15 boards of the American Board of Professional Psychology. These represent a relatively small proportion (less than 4%) of U.S. licensed psychologists. The numbers correlate positively with membership levels in corresponding APA divisions. Between 2011 and 2015, there was a 25.8% increase in the number of board-certified psychologists. Board certification appears to be undergoing a period of rapid growth among psychologists. This trend appears to reflect multiple factors, including an increased number of boards representing expanding areas of specialization in the field, a growing interest in board certification as part of increasing quality emphasis within healthcare, and psychologists' desire to distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace. Board certification in diverse areas, including clinical health psychology, affords various professionally and personally rewarding linkages and opportunities.To be or not to be board certified is a question psychologists wrestle with as they ponder whether (or not) to pursue advanced specialty board certification.

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“…Bent et al. (, ) and Kaslow, Graves and Smith () discuss the potentially increasing importance of board certification as health reform unfolds. Kaslow et al.…”

Section: Trends In Board Certification Of Psychologistsmentioning

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“…Kaslow et al. () envision that within the next 25 years, all health service psychologists would seek board certification. For the specialty of clinical neuropsychology, board certification has, in essence, already become an expected qualification for functioning in the field.…”

Section: Trends In Board Certification Of Psychologistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

To Be or Not to Be Board Certified? A Question of Quality and Identification for Psychologists

Robiner

Fossum

2017

J Appl Biobehavioral Res

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“…By specializing within a proficiency, sport psychologists continue to address the challenges associated with their ethical requirements (e.g. APA, AASP, BASES, BPS) and determine the range of information that they must acquire, maintain, and renew to remain current and competent in their area of applied practice (Kaslow, Graves, & Smith, 2012). Specialization is, therefore, an inevitable product of the developmental processes within a discipline and a profession (Roberts, 2006) and, could be associated with a developed idiosyncratic knowledge by these experienced practitioners.…”

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Where is the evidence in our sport psychology practice? A United Kingdom perspective on the underpinnings of action.

Winter¹,

Collins

2015

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Practitioners advocate the importance to engage in evidence-based practice at the forefront of issues regarding the provision of applied sport psychology. Accordingly, the present study sought to contextualize the process of theory-research-practice. Specifically, four attentionalbased techniques established within the sport psychology literature were depicted as applied scenarios and presented as a survey task. Experienced UK-based practitioners (n = 14) and individuals currently undergoing training (n = 14) were recruited to ascertain their theoretical and mechanistic knowledge, and whether these techniques were being utilized in the applied environment. Results suggested that the application of the techniques, in addition to the theoretical, and mechanistic knowledge may decrease from the trainee to experienced practitioner. The study highlights the need for an increase in research designed to be impactful in the applied setting, and addressing the needs of sport psychology practitioners, if our discipline is to advance and remain as evidence-based.

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“…Given the emphasis on quality improvement and quality control, it is likely that ACOs will expect all independent licensed practitioners to be board-certified specialists as part of the organizations' quality assurance and accountability review activities (Kaslow, Graves, & Smith, 2012;Rozensky & Janicke, 2012). Board certification is expected of all physicians in hospital settings in order to be on the professional staff.…”

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Healthcare Reform and Preparing the Future Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Workforce

Janicke

Fritz

Rozensky

2015

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Specialization in Psychology and Health Care Reform

Cited by 32 publications

References 62 publications

To Be or Not to Be Board Certified? A Question of Quality and Identification for Psychologists

To Be or Not to Be Board Certified? A Question of Quality and Identification for Psychologists

Where is the evidence in our sport psychology practice? A United Kingdom perspective on the underpinnings of action.

Healthcare Reform and Preparing the Future Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Workforce

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