New program offers a postdoctoral master's in clinical pharmacology

The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) has announced a new postdoctoral master's degree program in clinical pharmacology, created in response to a recent California law that establishes procedures for training psychologists in pharmacology (see December Monitor).

The program seeks to teach licensed psychologists to work collaboratively with physicians. The program is being offered in California and Texas, and involves 386 hours of instruction. Participants will meet for 12 hours every third weekend, from Feb. 6 through Dec. 12, 2000.

Instruction will be offered in Northern California at CSPP's Alameda campus and in Southern California at CSPP's Alhambra campus. The course will also be offered in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Lubbock, Texas, at Texas A&M University's distance-learning center sites. The Texas Psychological Association has endorsed the program.

'The goal of this program is to educate psychologists to participate collaboratively with other health-care professionals, integrating and managing medication in the holistic biopsychosocial treatment of mental disorders,' says Nicola Wolfe, PhD, a psychopharmacologist and CSPP-Alameda adjunct faculty member, who helped to create the program.

For more information, call the CSPP admissions office at (800) 457-1273.

-L. Rabasca



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