APA & the Pursuit of RxP: How Past Efforts have Shaped Current APA RxP Policies including RxP Model Legislation to Support Future Successes
$10.00
Presented by Deborah C. Baker, JD
Recorded on Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page
The American Psychological Association has long supported the idea that psychologists can be trained to be competent prescribers. Since the original APA Model Psychopharmacology Curriculum and Model Prescriptive Authority Legislation documents were first approved by APA Council of Representatives in 1996, education and training models and advocacy initiatives (both federal and state) have evolved significantly. Prescriptive authority for psychologists is now formally recognized as a specialty practice area in psychology. Understanding the movement’s history helps to provide insight into future directions.
In this presentation, there will be an overview of APA’s historical support for prescription privileges, state-based advocacy efforts to enact prescriptive authority legislation and the repeated claims by opponents. This will include discussion about the development of the current recommended education and training models, the designation criteria system and model legislative provisions. Ms. Baker will also describe how APA continues to support state leaders in prescriptive authority advocacy efforts, what kind of advocacy opportunities with payers and federal agencies might be available, and how important it is to become politically involved as a precursor to any prescriptive authority advocacy initiative. Some lessons learned from past advocacy efforts will also be highlighted.
When attended in full, this program offers 1.0 APA CEs for Psychologists.
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Presented by Deborah C. Baker, JD
Recorded on Thursday, March 14th, 2024
Access provided upon registration on “My Courses” page
The American Psychological Association has long supported the idea that psychologists can be trained to be competent prescribers. Since the original APA Model Psychopharmacology Curriculum and Model Prescriptive Authority Legislation documents were first approved by APA Council of Representatives in 1996, education and training models and advocacy initiatives (both federal and state) have evolved significantly. Prescriptive authority for psychologists is now formally recognized as a specialty practice area in psychology. Understanding the movement’s history helps to provide insight into future directions.
In this presentation, there will be an overview of APA’s historical support for prescription privileges, state-based advocacy efforts to enact prescriptive authority legislation and the repeated claims by opponents. This will include discussion about the development of the current recommended education and training models, the designation criteria system and model legislative provisions. Ms. Baker will also describe how APA continues to support state leaders in prescriptive authority advocacy efforts, what kind of advocacy opportunities with payers and federal agencies might be available, and how important it is to become politically involved as a precursor to any prescriptive authority advocacy initiative. Some lessons learned from past advocacy efforts will also be highlighted.
When attended in full, this program offers 1.0 APA CEs for Psychologists.
