Professional psychology and the prescription debate: Still not ready to goto the altar

Although it has been arg-ucd that support for the principle of psychologist s obtaining prescription privileges has increased, in fact few studies have been done to document this issue. The Walter's (2001) paper; which examine s survey data over a 20-year period, is instructive in showing that the sea rch for prescription privileges is not a movement. In this article, we comm ent on some of the data presented by Walters, and also examine or re-examin e other issues related to prescription privileges. These include the releva nce of U.S. data for Canadian psychology the negative training implications of prescription privileges for psychologists, the questionable need for th e enhancement of psychoactive agents, effective ways for psychology to coll aborate with other health-care providers, and the heritage and identity of psychology.