title: Psychology practice: design for tomorrow.
abstract: This article offers a blueprint for modernizing the delivery of high-quality behavioral health care and for improving access to care by a public sorely in need of psychological services. The blueprint brings together disparate elements of psychology practice into a more unified structure, an updated house, based upon advances in the essential building blocks: evidence-based practice, treatment guidelines, technology, classifications of function, diagnostic systems, outcomes measurement, and integrated health care. The goal is twofold: to make psychological services more accessible to the public and to position psychology for an increasingly major role in health care in order to serve the public weal in diverse communities.
authors.affiliation: Princeton, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Carol D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Goodheart
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards*; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic / Q000592:standards; D011584:Psychology / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history; D014481:United States