Này, tuy nhiên, đã là sự khởi đầu của cơ quan quy của tâm lý học (RxP) nhiệm vụ. Năm 1989, Ban APA giao chuyên nghiệp (BPA) đã tổ chức một khóa tu đặc biệt để khám phá những vấn đề xung quanh tâm lý học có RxP-quyền. Kết luận mạnh mẽ ủng hộ ngay lập tức nghiên cứu và nghiên cứu về tính khả thi và chương trình giảng dạy thích hợp trong | proposal within the psychological community and extreme opposition within the local psychiatric community DeLeon Fox Graham 1991 . This however was to be the beginning of psychology s prescriptive authority RxP- quest. In 1989 the ApA Board of Professional Affairs BPA held a special retreat to explore the issues surrounding psychology obtaining RxP- authority. It concluded by strongly endorsing immediate research and study regarding the feasibility and the appropriate curricula in psychopharmacology so that psychologists might provide broader service to the public and more effectively meet the psychological and mental health needs of society. Further the BPA also recommended that focused attention on the responsibility of preparing the profession to address current and future needs of the public for psychologically managed psychopharmacological interventions be made APA s highest priority. Interestingly in the 1970s the APA board of directors had appointed a special committee to review this very matter. The recommendation at that time was that psychology not pursue prescription privileges primarily since the field was doing so well without that authority DeLeon Sammons Fox 2000 . At the APA annual convention in Boston in 1990 the motion to establish an ad hoc Task Force on Psychopharmacology was approved by a vote of 118 to 2. Their report back to council in 1992 concluded that practitioners with combined training in psychopharmacology and psychosocial treatments could be viewed as a new form of health care professional expected to bring to health care delivery the best of both psychological and pharmacological knowledge. Further the proposed new provider possessed the potential to dramatically improve patient care and make important new advances in treatment Smyer et al. 1993 . On June 17 1994 APA president Bob Resnick was formally recognized during the graduation ceremonies at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the first two Department of Defense DoD .
