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National Health Service Corps Announces a New Loan Repayment Program

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Announces a New Loan Repayment Pilot Program for Part-Time Clinicians. This program joins the Full-Time Program in recruiting “fully-trained health professionals to provide culturally competent, interdisciplinary primary health services to underserved populations located in selected Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSAs) identified by the Secretary of the Department of Health [...]

American Psychological Association Health Care Reform Activities Update

Over the past two weeks, historic health care reform legislation was signed into law—the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111-148) on March 23 and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (P.L. 111-152) on March 30, which includes a package of amendments. The legislation is primarily designed to extend health coverage [...]

New Psychotherapy Research Grant Named in Honor of Charles J. Gelso

CHARLES J. GELSO, PH.D., PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH GRANT Division 29 created the annual Charles J. Gelso, Ph.D., Psychotherapy Research Grant to provide annual grants (up to $2000) supporting the advancement of research on psychotherapy process or psychotherapy outcome. Grant eligibility rotates biannually between graduate students/predoctoral interns and doctoral level psychologists/postdoctoral fellows. The grant program was established [...]

Mental Health Resources for Military Troops and Veterans, Families, and Providers

Ken Pope has done a wonderful job of summarizing a number of resources for Military Troops, Veterans, their families and mental health providers.   The resources, which he has given us permission to summarize here include articles, publications, and links to service and military organizations.  The full list of resources can be found at Dr. [...]

Excellent Resources for Clients Seeking Therapy

Psychotherapists are always looking for good places to send clients to get simple, quick information about seeking treatment for a wide range of symptoms. The Canadian Psychology Association maintains a nice resource of Psychology Works Fact Sheets which may be of use.