title: Healthcare Reform and Preparing the Future Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Workforce.
abstract: The healthcare environment is undergoing important changes for both patients and providers, in part due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Ultimately the healthcare delivery system will function very differently by the end of this decade. These changes will have important implications for the education, training, scientific inquiry, and practice of clinical child and adolescent psychologists. In this article we provide a brief description of the fundamental features of the ACA, with a specific focus on critical components of the act that have important, specific implications for clinical child and adolescents psychologists. We then provide recommendations to help position our field to thrive in the evolving healthcare environment to help facilitate further awareness and promote discussion of both challenges and opportunities that face our field in this evolving health care environment.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical and Health Psychology , University of Florida.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Janicke
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical and Health Psychology , University of Florida.
authors.forename: Alyssa M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.affiliation: a Department of Clinical and Health Psychology , University of Florida.
authors.forename: Ronald H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Rozensky
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce