Prescriptive authority and psychology

The progress of psychology toward the acquisition of prescriptive authority is critically reviewed. Advances made by other nonphysician health care professions toward expanding their scopes of practice to include prescriptive authority are compared with gains made by professional psychology. Societal trends affecting attitudes toward the use of psychotropic medications are reviewed, and the potential influence of such trends on the prescriptive authority movement is examined. A history of the prescriptive authority movement is documented, and recent legislative and policy initiatives are discussed

Cognitive psychology · Health authority · Health care · History of psychology · Legislature · Political science · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmaceutical studies and practices · Psychology · Law

• Psychology as a ProfessionThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions of Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr. and Gary R. VandenBos, coauthors of this chapter in the first edition of History of Psychology .

  Open Access•Robin L Cautin, Donald K Freedheim et al.•Handbook of Psychology, Second…•2012

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• Evolving Roles for the Profession

  Open Access•Patrick H Deleon, Morgan T Sammons et al.•Handbook of Psychology, Second…•2012

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• Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians

  Open Access•Phillip M Hughes, Joshua D Niznik et al.•American Psychologist•2024

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