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Over the past several decades, the demand for psychological services has significantly increased. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this demand and research has demonstrated an increase in mental health concerns in people affected by COVID-19, including panic disorder, irrational anger, impulsivity, somatization, disordered sleep, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and suicidal behavior (Hossain et al., 2020). Negative mental … Read more

Introduction Psychologists operate within a complex array of intersecting demands from structural barriers imposed by a health care system that overlaps with ethnoracial, ethical, personal, and poverty-related factors. Poverty functions as a persistent economic experience of exclusion from access to resources required to reach the capacity to achieve a minimum quality measure of living. A … Read more

Preface: This article emanates from an invited presentation given at the 2023 APA Annual Convention in Washington DC on August 4, 2023. The author, Dr. Florence Kaslow, was one of the three panelists/presenters asked by APA President Thema Bryant-Davis, PhD to be on a featured panel. Dr. Bryant-Davis was the fourth panelist. The panel was … Read more

The American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) holds a mission of serving the public by promoting the provision of quality psychological services through the examination and certification of professional psychologists engaging in specialty practices (ABPP, 2023). This philosophy holds true for each of the currently identified specialty boards. Evaluations for ABPP certification typically includes core … Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many dramatic changes to the provision of behavioral healthcare, with few more impactful than the rapid transition from traditional in-person methods to telehealth (e.g., videoconferencing, telephone, email, texting, messaging programs). Upon review of literature, listservs, professional presentations, and online postings, the idea of technology integration with psychological services continues to … Read more

The inclusion of Substance-Related and Other Addictive Disorders to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th ed. (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) signifies an enormous shift in the way mental health professionals conceptualize addictive disorders. For the first time in history, the term addiction is used as a formal diagnostic label in the DSM. … Read more