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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:24:12 EST
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- From: "Matthew Simpson" <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Psych assessment by MDs
- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:44:32 -0500 from <20SSMITH@GALLUA>
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- On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:44:32 -0500 <20SSMITH@GALLUA> said:
- >Matthew are you sure about this! Wow I had no idea this was so. I
- >thought that the APA ethics were pretty much the last word on who could
- >do psychological assessment and refer to themselves as a psychologist.
-
- Woa! Wait a minute and re-read what I wrote. I wrote that the word
- "psychologist" *IS* a regulated word. As far as I know, "psychological
- assessment" is not; neither is psychotherapy.
-
- >I'll have to look into this more deeply. If that is the case it really
- >blows me away. Besides that the publishing companies send you through all
- >kinds of hoops to purchase certain instruments and one of those hoops
- >is the doctorate in psychology, that is also what lead me to believe testing
- >was not open to any and every one who could get their hands on the materials.
-
- Well, what you are saying is that not everyone can get their hands on the
- materials. So what I say is valid. Given that a person has legal access
- to the assessment instruments, they can use them. Think about all the
- folks who administer the WAIS-R, the Meyers-Briggs, the TAT. Are these
- people all psychologists? I think we would find alot of social workers,
- psychiatrists, nurses, people with degrees in education, etc. doing the
- administration and the scoring.
-
- What makes us think we have the corner on the market?
- Criteria for filing for third-party reimbursement is another topic all
- together, yet not unrelated.
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