Graduate education in clinical psychology for the twenty-first century: educating psychological health care providers.
This comment focuses on a topic that is implied but not explicated in C.R. Snyder and T.R. Elliott's article (this issue, PP. 1033-1054): The biopsychosocial model. I begin by discussing the status of health care, taking up in turn its tremendous problems and the negative effects of a system built on mind-body dualism. I argue for a transformation of the biomedical system to a biopsychosocial system. I then discuss the opportunities for psychology and the implications for training.
Levant
Ronald F
RF
Nova Southeastern University, FL 33314, USA. levantr@nova.edu
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