BACKGROUND The debate over whether clinical psychologists should be granted the right to prescribe psychoactive medication has received considerable attention over the last 2 decades in the US, but there has been relatively little discussion of this controversial topic among Canadian mental health professionals, namely psychologists and psychiatrists. Proponents of prescription privileges (PPs)...

Given the growing linguistic diversity in the United States, many practicing psychologists will work with foreign language interpreters. However, few clinicians receive formal training in providing interpreteraided psychological services. By federal law (88th Congress, 1964; PL-88-352), psychologists or their agencies are responsible for providing interpreter services. To maintain a patient-cen...

It is the purpose of this paper to attempt the development of a theory of association in terms of the temporal functions of the nervous impulse. The most orthodox theory of association perhaps is that involving some form of resistance to conduction of the nervous impulse at the synapse. It assumes that the neural changes taking place in learning involve breaking down the resistance of the limit...

Clinical psychology is in a serious state. Although there are many psychologists who practice therapies with scientifically documented effects and others who perform tests with firm scientific underpinnings, there are also many who do the opposite, who practice psychotherapy that have been proven useless and perform tests that lack all predictive value. For some reason, the kind of corrective f...

Processes that govern the interpretation of conditional statements by lay reasoners are considered a key-issue by nearly all reasoning psychologists. An argumentative approach to interpretation is outlined, based on the idea that one has to retrieve the intention of the speaker to interpret a statement, and an argumentative based typology of conditionals is offered. Some empirical support to th...

This study aimed to understand the offer of mental health care at Background: the primary care level, collecting the views of psychologists, primary health care providers (PHCPs), and patients, with a focus on health services in which patients attend regularly and who present a higher prevalence of mental disorders. A qualitative study was conducted in antenatal care, tuberculosis, Methods: HIV...

This study aimed to understand the offer of mental health care at Background: the primary care level, collecting the views of psychologists, primary health care providers (PHCPs), and patients, with a focus on health services in which patients attend regularly and who present a higher prevalence of mental disorders. A qualitative study was conducted in antenatal care, tuberculosis, Methods: HIV...

This study aimed to understand the offer of mental health care at Background: the primary care level, collecting the views of psychologists, primary health care providers (PHCPs), and patients, with a focus on health services in which patients attend regularly and who present a higher prevalence of mental disorders. A qualitative study was conducted in antenatal care, tuberculosis, Methods: HIV...

This study aimed to understand the offer of mental health care at Background: the primary care level, collecting the views of psychologists, primary health care providers (PHCPs), and patients, with a focus on health services in which patients attend regularly and who present a higher prevalence of mental disorders. A qualitative study was conducted in antenatal care, tuberculosis, Methods: HIV...