Monday, September 27, 2004

APA Testimony On Behalf of New Mexico’s Important Step Toward Comprehensive Mental Health Care
APA press release - "Russ Newman, the American Psychological Association’s (APA) executive director for professional practice, testified before New Mexico’s Psychologist Examiner’s Board in support of regulations that would implement the state’s new law granting prescriptive authority to psychologists. New Mexico was the first state to enact a law granting psychologists the right to prescribe. Seeing a psychiatrist in New Mexico can take up to six weeks and an hours long commute. HB 170 and the regulations to implement it will expand the pool of mental health care providers by providing additional training in medicine and pharmacology to psychologists who are already experienced clinicians with doctoral level training..."