Urgent Concern
(Feb. 1, 2010)

OCCAP strongly opposes proposed psychologist prescribing bill (SB 1046) as unsafe without major changes in training and supervision requirements. OCCAP urges that non- medically trained psychologists should not prescribe medications to children or adolescents.

• OCCAP Veto Request
  March 31, 2010


• SB 1046
  Position Statement and Proposed Amendments
  
  February 21, 2010
  Click here to download.


• Comments of the American Psychiatric Association to the Oregon Work Group on Prescriptive Authority for Licensed Psychologists
  On the Draft Bill Relating to Prescriptive Authority for Licensed Psychologists
  
  Submitted to the Work Group - January 11, 2010
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• OCCAP Letter on SB1046
  Click here to download.


• Powerpoint presentation from William Robiner, Ph.D. that was given recently at a grand rounds in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. It is provided with his permission.
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• Prerequisite hours for Prescribing Professions is a jpeg file of a table found in an article by Sechrest, L. & Coan, J.A. (2002). Preparing psychologists to prescribe. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58, 649-658 the underscores some of the foundational differences between medical professions and clinical psychology.
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• Clinical psychologist strongly oppose prescribing privileges for psychologists with poor medical training. Tanya Tompkins PhD. and Timothy Tumlin PhD. present compelling arguments about the dangers of psychologists with poor medical training prescribing medications as could be the case if SB 1046 becomes law. They refute common arguments presented by the proponents of SB 1046, the psychologist prescribing bill.
  
  Tanya L. Tompkins, PH.D. Testimony to the Senate Health Care Committee
  February 4, 2010
  
  Timothy Tumlin, PH.D. Letter to Senator Alan Bates
  February 2, 2010