In the past two years, prescribing psychology (also known as clinical psychopharmacology or medical psychology) has started to expand with increasing momentum. The first prescribing psychologists graduated from training in 1994, but this effort was initially constrained to a pilot program of 10 military psychologists, prescribing only in military treatment facilities. However, as with a multitude of military inventions and initiatives, prescribing psychology is being adopted more widely and is viewed as a partial solution to a number of the country’s mental healthcare problems. An unprecedented mental health provider shortage and dangerous access-to-care problems have stimulated legislation and the need for an infrastructure to support these psychologists and their training.

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