THE PRACTICALITY OF PREDOCTORAL PRESCRIPTION TRAINING FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS - A SURVEY OF DIRECTORS OF CLINICAL-TRAINING

Sixty percent of directors of clinical training (DCTs) at the nation's 164 clinical psychology programs accredited by the American Psycholog ical Association (APA) responded to a survey regarding their attitudes toward the hypothetical implementation of a sample predoctoral prescr iption training model created by the APA's Ad Hoc Task Force on Psycho pharmacology (APA, 1992). Results suggested that the majority of DCTs (62%) remained equivocal regarding the implementation of such training at their program. A majority (62%) identified postdoctoral specializa tion as the preferred method of prescription training. DCTs' perceptio ns of the benefits of adding predoctoral prescription training best pr edicted their estimations that such training would be incorporated at their clinical program.