Posted by jane d on November 18, 2011, at 18:41:51
In reply to Re: psychopharmacologist vs psychiatrist » jane d, posted by 10derheart on November 18, 2011, at 12:03:02
> Great points, janed. I'd agree you have to take info on Wise Geek with a bit of a grain of salt....I'm unsure of its sources...?
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> In this case, though, it might be the difference between **clinical** psychopharmocology and use of the term without the clinical modifier. Maybe there are more psychologists doing this than we think....I dunno.According to this AMA article it was still just New Mexico, Louisiana and the military as of last March with legislation introduced in New Jersey, Tennesee, Arizona, Hawaii, Montana and Oregon.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/03/07/prl20307.htmI couldn't find any evidence that it had yet passed in any of those places. So not that common yet. But comimg soon it seems.
> I just clicked over to the plain definition here:
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> http://topics.wisegeek.com/topics/psychopharmacology.htm#
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> ...and it seems more like what I understood it to mean. If I had a psychiatrist, I'd ask how they understood its use....but I don't. My own therapist,(MA in counseling/social work) who chose not to get her doctorate, wants to go back to school to become a nurse practitioner so she can more comprehensively treat clients.Ah. I'd missed that distinction when I read it the first time. Thanks for pointing it out. But I still think there's currently a distinction between psychopharmacology and psychopharmacologist in actual usage. But that may just be an accident of who can prescribe and may disappear. I've never heard of a psychiatric NP referred to that way even though that is in fact what they study and what they do. I'm a big fan of NPs.
I haven't used wisegeek before. Do you find it generally useful? There are so many phony "answer" sites around now that I tend to ignore any that I'm not familiar with. And there's a whole bunch I wish could block from all future search results.
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