Author Question: Training of health psychologists and therapists needs to be enhanced in these areas: a. cultural ... (Read 39 times)

plus1 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Training of health psychologists and therapists needs to be enhanced in these areas:

a. cultural competency and awareness of the lifespan issues
b. understanding empirical research and more familiarity using sites such as WebMD
c. understanding a second language, and psycholinguistics
d. psychopharmacoloty and the medical model.

Question 2

Key barriers that prevent interventions from reaching the clinical populations for whom they have been designed do NOT include:

a. researchers not always understanding the clinical applicability of their basic research
b. researchers not being able to locate populations that are willing to be involved in the interventions.
c. a reluctance of clinicians to accept the value of basic research-driven interventions.
d. various institutional-level constraints such as lack of time, training, or funding.