Delivering the nuts without the bolts: the plight of clinical psychology practice.
A vision as bold as that expressed by C.R. Snyder and Timothy R. Elliott in their target article, "Twenty-First Century Graduate Education in Clinical Psychology: A Four Level Matrix Model" (this issue, pp 1033-1054), should make the long-awaited breakthrough in training that would include development, implementation, and evaluation of large-scale health delivery systems. The realization that clinical psychology is part of the health care industry, and not just psychotherapy or mental health, would enable psychologists to go beyond the laboratory and become important decision makers in the health care arena and thus command a greater share of health care funding.
Cummings
Nicholas A
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University of Nevada, Reno and the Cummings Foundation for Behavioral Health, Inc, USA. CummFound@aol.com
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