Effects of workshop training for providers under mandated use of an evidence-based practice.

Workshops are a common strategy for fostering the adoption of evidence-based practices (EBP), but workshops alone may not change provider behavior. This study investigates the impact of a two-day training combined with an existing mandate for EBP use. Providers attending regional workshops showed improved attitudes toward the behavioral parent training model, but not EBPs in general.

Prescription privileges for psychologists: opinions of pediatric psychologists and pediatricians.

Objective: To examine the opinions of pediatricians and pediatric psychologists concerning prescription privileges for psychologists.

Methods: 213 pediatric psychologists and 119 pediatricians returned surveys regarding their opinions about cost, access, and quality of psychological care if psychologists had prescription privileges.

Results: Pediatric psychologists had significantly more positive views of prescription privileges than pediatricians.

Adolescent health risk behavior: when do pediatric psychologists break confidentiality?

Objective: To determine the circumstances under which pediatric psychologists believe it is ethical to break confidentiality when presented with adolescent health risk behavior.

Method: Members of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (N = 92) responded to a survey containing a vignette about an adolescent patient engaging in health-compromising behaviors. Participants rated the degree to which it is ethical to break confidentiality for health risk behaviors of varying frequency, intensity, and duration.