Transforming Psychology into a True Healthcare Discipline

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It has been my privilege to be the editor of the Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings (JCPMS) during a time when our health care system is in transformation. Recently, psychology’s survival has depended on its ability to interface its unique contributions with those of other health care disciplines and embed itself within medical settings. Subsequently, my goal has been to insure that JCPMS publishes articles that are representative of the cutting edge research health and clinical psychologists offer, provides descriptions of our education and training activities within academic health centers that are innovative, and offers reviews of clinical service delivery models that are community based and inter-professional resulting in high quality, cost effective, equitable health care. …