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Pros And Cons Of Psychopharmacology

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In 2002 New Mexico was the first state to allow psychologist to prescribe medicine to their patients. By 2004 Louisiana also allowed them to. In these states psychologists must get a master’s degree in psychopharmacology. Psychopharmacology is the study of how psychiatric drugs act on the body. They must also work supervised for one year. Psychologists in all other states are still currently trying to push for them to be able to prescribe medications.
There are many arguments on why psychologists say they should be able to prescribe medications. One argument is that giving them this right would be better for patients. They also argue that this addition task of prescribing medicine could be vital to the future of the profession.
Another reason some believe that psychologist should be able to prescribe medicine is because it is better for the patients. Many patients say …show more content…

Some believe that those 450 hours do not qualify them enough to be prescribing medications to patients.
They believe that if a psychologist should be allowed to prescribe medicines, they should also have to go through as much training psychiatrists.
I believe that psychologist should be allowed to prescribe medications to patients. The reason I think they should is because it would make things much easier for the patient. If psychologists are allowed to prescribe medications, the patients would no longer have to go to 2 different people for their therapy and their medications. They could just go to one person which could make things much easier and more comfortable for them.
I also think that in some cases, psychologists are more fit to prescribe medicine. The reason I believe this is because psychologist see their patients multiple times at multiple different points. With them meeting with their patients more, I think that this makes them more suitable to prescribe medications to

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