TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychology and Medical Rehabilitation
T2 - Moving Toward a Consumer-Driven Health Care System
AU - Stiers, William M.
AU - Kewman, Donald G.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - Changes in health care will provide both opportunities and threats for rehabilitation psychologists. We must demonstrate the relevance of our clinical services to important outcomes or risk being excluded as treatment providers. With shifts to nonhospital settings, we can provide increasing clinical and administrative leadership. However, we must redefine models of treatment to include home care and "telepsychology," practice guidelines and critical paths, involvement of paraprofessionals, case management, injury prevention, and health promotion. We should be involved when datasets are established to define disability-related health policies and reimbursement and be proactive in Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care reform to develop treatment packages to decrease long-term handicap. Collaboration with consumers is critical. We must frame research questions to address current policy issues. Our skills can help improve the effectiveness of human behavior, whether it be patients with illness, consumers with disability, health care providers, health systems managers, or legislators.
AB - Changes in health care will provide both opportunities and threats for rehabilitation psychologists. We must demonstrate the relevance of our clinical services to important outcomes or risk being excluded as treatment providers. With shifts to nonhospital settings, we can provide increasing clinical and administrative leadership. However, we must redefine models of treatment to include home care and "telepsychology," practice guidelines and critical paths, involvement of paraprofessionals, case management, injury prevention, and health promotion. We should be involved when datasets are established to define disability-related health policies and reimbursement and be proactive in Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care reform to develop treatment packages to decrease long-term handicap. Collaboration with consumers is critical. We must frame research questions to address current policy issues. Our skills can help improve the effectiveness of human behavior, whether it be patients with illness, consumers with disability, health care providers, health systems managers, or legislators.
KW - Disability
KW - Future
KW - Psychology
KW - Rehabilitation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0006713725&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=0006713725&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1026252624965
DO - 10.1023/A:1026252624965
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0006713725
SN - 1068-9583
VL - 4
SP - 167
EP - 179
JO - Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
JF - Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings
IS - 2
ER -