[arpaleadership] Re: Pre-Work for Council Strategic Issue Discussion

  • From: Kristin Addison-Brown <kristinaddisonbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arpaleadership@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 11:08:38 -0600

I agree with Betty, except that I would personally make her #3 my #1.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Everett, Betty L. <EverettBettyL@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  Hi  just some thoughts  from my perspective.     1.  The issues of the
> role in primary care , integrated medicine is a top priority to me.   A
> second issue perhaps not as global  is the  difficulties with funding
> internships and training.  I would love to find a way for interns to be
> credentialed to bill insurance for services  ( maybe we will do away with
> the fee for service concept  but I think that is a long time coming!).  So,
>  one idea is  provisional Ph.D.  during internship year so a   license
> accepted by institutions, insurance as practitioners…..  A significant
> third issue to me is leadership in taking back from 3rd party payers
> significant clinical decisions.
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> *From:* arpaleadership-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> arpaleadership-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Ghormley, Courtney O.
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 05, 2015 10:15 AM
> *To:* arpaleadership@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [arpaleadership] Pre-Work for Council Strategic Issue
> Discussion
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> Greetings ArPA Leadership,
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> As your APA Council of Representatives member, I am preparing for our
> upcoming council meeting (February 19-22) in Washington, DC.  Each Council
> representative has been asked to poll our respective Executive Committee
> about the most critical, top three, strategic issues facing the discipline
> over the next 5-10 years.
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> Note that by “strategic issues facing psychology” we mean high level,
> overarching concerns that will influence many if not most areas of
> psychology in the next decade or so and/or that will influence how
> psychology interacts with the world around it. Examples might include
> psychology’s role in primary care and globalization/internationalization.
>
> These results will be aggregated by APA staff and be made use of during
> the Council strategic issue discussions.
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> What I need from you is input!  As a group, we need to decide on ArPA’s
> top three, critical, strategic issues that we believe are facing the
> discipline over the next 5-10 years, and I’ll be sure to communicate this
> to APA for discussion at the upcoming Council meeting.
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> Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
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>
> Courtney Ghormley
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> APA Council Representative from Arkansas
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> Courtney O. Ghormley, PhD, ABPP
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> Geropsychologist / Geriatric Neuropsychology
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> Board Certified in Geropsychology
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