Keeping a Rural Psychology Presence Alive

ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
David Hargrove Ph.D., Kulynych/Cline Distinguished Professor (Creator)
Institution
Appalachian State University (ASU )
Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/

Abstract: Rural communities were brought into the national mental health picture in the 1960s in President John F. Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1962. The delivery of services and the human resource application of that act designated rural areas as underserved, in need of some attention. Training programs in psychology, psychiatry, social work, and nursing focused some efforts to produce professional people who could work in the rural environment. As federal initiatives in community mental health have changed, the stimuli for the continued development of rural services have lagged. A thread of concern has lingered, however, as the article by Jameson and Blank (2007) demonstrates.

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Publication
Hargrove, D. S., (2007) Keeping a rural psychology presence alive. Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, 14(3): 304-305 (Sep 2007). Published by Wiley-Blackwell (ISSN: 0969-5893). [The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com]
Language: English
Date: 2007

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