| Abstract: | Comments on the article by Sanchez and Turner (see record 2003-03405-005) examining the implications for practice and training in psychology in the era of managed care. The current author believes that Sanchez and Turner presented an overly optimistic picture of behavioral managed care based, in part, on various misconceptions. Discussion focuses on examining/correcting those misconceptions. The author states that it is understandable that a graduate student and a university professor, neither of whom has worked extensively in private practice, would have misconceptions about how managed care works and its impact on the profession. What the author finds disconcerting, however, is that Sanchez and Turner's article, with a number of misperceptions, got published when 90% of the articles submitted get rejected. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
