Last Update: 08.26.07

The Prescribing Psychologists Information Page

Promoting Information, Education, Training, and Legislation

Visit the RxP Legislative Forum   

 

Search Information from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Activism in RxP

Psychiatry's Workforce Shortage - Report from the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. US Surgeon General reports indicates "there is a dearth of child psychiatrists...." 

Psychologist Point and Psychiatrist Counterpoint articles from the Albuquerque Journal during the final voting stages of New Mexico's RxP legislation. 

Organizations

APA Division 55 Pharmacotherapy

National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers - Charting a New National  Direction for Clinical Psychologists.

American Psychological Association

'Off the Beaten Path'  

Is Psychiatry 'Out of Its Mind'? book by Harvard Psychiatrist J. Allen Hobson.

'The Prescription Jihad' in Psychiatric Times. Required Reading!

 

Legislation & Policy 

Review the politics of RxP legislation from the New Mexico Experience.

Legislative Strategy Information from the American Psychological Association. 

Canadian Meta-Analysis Study of Views Toward RxP

Reference Links

RxP Links -great for the Prescribing Psychologist!

PsychMeds - Free Download of the 100 most commonly used medications & other info.

Training Information

APA Education & Training Guidelines
Prescribing Psychologists' Register
The Psychopharmacology Institute

Farleigh Dickinson Psychopharmacology Program

Nova Southeastern University

Masters Program in Clinical Psychopharmacology

Alliant International University

California School of Professional Psychology Post-Masters Program in Psychopharmacology

The New Mexico Collaborative (The Southwestern Institute for the Advancement of Psychotherapy and  New Mexico State
University

Texas A&M University’s
Psychopharmacology Certificate