Description: This presentation briefly describes Dr. Shearer’s path to becoming a prescribing psychologist. The predominant focus of the presentation is to discuss the role of a prescribing psychologist in primary care settings and in a military service. Primary care providers’ ratings of prescribing psychologists, comparisons between different prescribers of psychotropic medications, and a model for prescribing psychologists in primary care will be discussed. Finally, a brief update of RxP legislative activities in Washington state will be provided.

CEs: 1.0 CE Available
Program Level: Introductory

Learning Objectives:

• The participant will be able to list three areas in which primary care physicians have rated prescribing psychologists positively.
• The participant will be able to identify at least two basic elements of a model for successfully embedding prescribing psychology in a primary care clinic.
• The participant will be able to identify that both civilian and active duty prescribing psychologists can prescribe in all branches of the armed services.

Speaker: David Shearer, PhD, MSCP, ABMP