| Psychology and the Department of Veterans Affairs: A Historical Analysis of Training, Research, Practice, and Advocacy Contributor(s): Baker, Rodney R. (Author), Pickren, Wade E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1591474531 ISBN-13: 9781591474531 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2007 Annotation: This history of psychological care through the VA tells how VA psychologists pioneered research in such areas as pyschopharmacology, care of elderly people, and psychological care aspects in treatment of tuberculosis, and how they helped establish a number of trends for such mental health services as group therapy, compensated work therapy, and other rehabilitation programs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | History |
| Dewey: 362.209 |
| LCCN: 2006013193 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 7.26" W x 10.3" (1.17 lbs) 184 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Psychology and the Department of Veterans Affairs is a historical resource volume that offers important insights into the expansion of psychology since WWII. The VA led the country in establishing credentials illegible] practice. Large-scale employment of clinical and counseling psychologists in the VA led to the emergence of psychologists as health-care practitioners in this country. Psychologists had significant leadership roles in the VA's innovative, large, multi-site cooperative research studies, and pioneered health care research such areas as psychopharmacology, care of elderly people, and psychological care aspects in treatment illegible] tuberculosis. Their work was important in the shift toward a behaviorally driven diagnostic manual, in particular, the DSM-III. VA psychologists also helped establish a number of trends for mental health services in the country, including group therapy, compensated work therapy, and other rehabilitation programs. This book also tells how VA psychologists formed advocacy networks among themselves and with members of Congress and the American Psychological Association. psychology and the reciprocal influence of psychology and government that was begun in the APA volume on the history of psychology and the National Institute of Mental Health. Target readers for this book include psychologists who work in health care fields or have connections with the VA, and others interested in the history of psychology and post-war American life. |