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The movement for prescriptive authority for psychologists, RxP, has been controversial within and outside of the profession, and slow to gain traction. Over three decades, debates have centered around the quality of training (McGrath, 2020; Robiner et al., 2020), patient safety, and motivations for pursuing RxP. The American Psychological Association (APA) promoted RxP to address a long-known shortage of psychiatrists.

Please provide an overview of your work. My specialty is group psychology, leadership, followership, and group dynamics. Where did you complete your training? Graduate school: Illinois School of Professional Psychology (clinical psychology) Internship: Florida State University Counseling Center Postdoc: University of Pittsburgh Counseling Center What is your current position/occupation? Director of University of North Florida Counseling Center Can you describe

If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and felt like the person staring back at you wasn’t quite ‘you’, you’re not alone. People with eating disorders (e.g., anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa) and body dysmorphic disorder often experience profound disturbances in how they perceive their own bodies – a condition called body image disturbance (BID). At its core, BID involves two

The Society of Clinical Psychology maintains a list of empirically supported treatments (ESTs), using a set of requirements colloquially referred to as the “Tolin criteria” (Tolin et al., 2015).  Under this practice, independent researchers may submit systematic reviews of treatments for consideration as an EST.  As submissions have been coming in, a question was raised about whether all of these