Board Certification in Psychology: Insights from Medicine and Hospital Psychology

For physicians board certification is an accepted tradition that research suggests improves services and outcomes. In contrast, relatively few psychologists pursue board certification suggesting ambivalence or limited contingencies reinforcing it. The authors report on medical school and hospital-ba...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings 2012-03, Vol.19 (1), p.30-40
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Attitude of Health Personnel
Certification
Certification - statistics & numerical data
Consumer protection
Consumers
Family Medicine
General Practice
Health Care Surveys
Health Psychology
Hospitals
Humans
Medical Staff Privileges - standards
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Physicians
Psychologists
Psychology
Psychology - standards
Specialty Boards
Surgeons
United States
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