{"title":"Serious mental illness-Psychology's call to action: If not us, who? If not now, when?","authors":"Shirley M Glynn, Mary A Jansen","doi":"10.1037/ser0000866","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While psychology has much to contribute to the care of individuals living with a serious mental illness (SMI), psychologists have been and continue to be underrepresented as their treatment providers. However, serving those living with an SMI presents an urgent public health need. In this article, we provide an overview of the historical role of psychology in the care of individuals with SMIs, and we argue that a confluence of factors renders this a propitious time for psychologists to increase their commitment to the care of those living with an SMI. These factors include (a) the availability of strengths-based and/or functional assessment tools and effective psychosocial interventions, often created or empirically tested and enhanced by psychologists, (b) the continuing evolution of a recovery movement which brings more optimism to the field, and (c) the establishment, over the past 15 years, of an APA recognized and approved infrastructure to provide and recognize formal SMI Psychology training and expertise. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":20749,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Services","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychological Services","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000866","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
While psychology has much to contribute to the care of individuals living with a serious mental illness (SMI), psychologists have been and continue to be underrepresented as their treatment providers. However, serving those living with an SMI presents an urgent public health need. In this article, we provide an overview of the historical role of psychology in the care of individuals with SMIs, and we argue that a confluence of factors renders this a propitious time for psychologists to increase their commitment to the care of those living with an SMI. These factors include (a) the availability of strengths-based and/or functional assessment tools and effective psychosocial interventions, often created or empirically tested and enhanced by psychologists, (b) the continuing evolution of a recovery movement which brings more optimism to the field, and (c) the establishment, over the past 15 years, of an APA recognized and approved infrastructure to provide and recognize formal SMI Psychology training and expertise. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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Psychological Services publishes high-quality data-based articles on the broad range of psychological services. While the Division"s focus is on psychologists in "public service," usually defined as being employed by a governmental agency, Psychological Services covers the full range of psychological services provided in any service delivery setting. Psychological Services encourages submission of papers that focus on broad issues related to psychotherapy outcomes, evaluations of psychological service programs and systems, and public policy analyses.
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