Enhancing primary health care to incorporate mental health services is a key strategy for closing the treatment gap for people with mental disorders. The integration of psychological care into primary health care is a critical step in addressing poor access to mental health specialists. As the psychology profession is increasingly called upon to prepare psychologists for primary health care set...

As obstetrics and gynecology (ob/gyn) practices move toward becoming patient-centered medical homes for their patients, the need for providing integrated behavioral health care has increased. Themes common in ob/gyn settings—such as menstruation concerns, initiation of contraception, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause—serve as occasions for health promotion and as life transitions where behav...

‘‘I see,’’ quoth he, ‘‘the Elephant And always take some reckoning Is very like a snake!’’ Of how selection works. The Fourth reached out an eager hand, For elephants are not the same. And felt about the knee. Each varies day by day. ‘‘What most this wondrous beast is like And where you place your hand on one, Is mighty plain,’’ quoth he; Does not the whole betray. ‘‘Tis clear enough the Elepha...

The article by Edwin R. Guthrie, ' Conditioning as a principle of learning,' provides, it seems to me, special interest from its cardinal tendency, altogether justified to my mind, of ascribing phenomena designated as psychological activity to physiological facts, i.e., of uniting or identifying the physiological with the psychological, the subjective with the objective, which I am convinced co...

Bayesian methods offer new insight into standard statistical models and provide novel solutions to problems common in psychological research, such as missing data. Appeals for Bayesian methods are often made from a dogmatic, theory-based standpoint concerning the philosophical underpinnings of statistical inference, the role of prior beliefs, claims about how one should update belief given new ...