This course provides the Medical Psychologist and clinical psychologist with the knowledge, skills, and techniques necessary to practice in the Medicare and Medicaid systems of healthcare and in healthcare facilities that serve the aging, disabled, and poor or near poor, and the full programs that all health facilities have to have to serve a community. These are comprehensive safety net doctor skills, A community facility needs Psychologist leadership, consultation, clinical programming and intervention, and teamwork in these regards.

Neuroplasticity & The Development or Degradation of the Brain & Personality

The Brain and its' consequent-personality are fluid and constantly changing aspects of the human.  The science has now become quite clear-"Biology is Not Destiny"!  In other words, those who are well versed in the current state of science have moved out of the previous (and primitive) concept of genes as "cookie cutters" that are fixed at conception, and the brain and its' cells only growing in infancy and childhood, and the resulting Drug Manufacturers "marketing ploy" trying to convince us we are "a biological soup", or that mentally ill people are best understood as "biologically imbalanced"!

This course helps you with a review of the current state of science about brain and neural system development, differentiation, modification and growth or degradation, and relates this to some general science about how humans learn, how psychotherapy works, and why "medication only approaches" to the treatment of mental illness are "unscientific", "near hoaxing", "not supported by supervising bodies and organizations", and probably preditorial and unethical!

The modern psychotherapist is pointed at the literature that can prepare them above this introductory level for providing "brain change" and "neurobiologically and psychologically informed psychological diagnosis and psychotherapy".

Psychology Practice in Medicare

Medical Psychologists and General Clinical Psychologists will increasingly have to work in, or in close colaboration with, the Primary Care and Community Hospital System.  This system is ever evolving toward a multi-disciplinary team delivery system in an Ingegrated Care Model where the Primary Care Physician is the hub of the healthcare wheel, and psychologists and psychiatrists are in collaboration with the patient's general physician.

This course assists the psychologist with understanding the evolving Medicare Program (which often drives Medicaid and Private Insurance changes) and provides basic skills related to practicing in the Medicare system and facilities that will increasingly require that the psychologist and other doctors are Medicare providers.

About This Site: Introduction to Site Use and Codes of Conduct

This section is where we do a brief orientation to the use of this site, our site code of conduct, and where we inform you about where you can get assistance and can get your questions answered.