The Course Content of APA-Accredited Doctoral Programs: If the Use of Psychiatric Drugs Is to Be Challenged, Then a Road to Better Psycho-Social Treatments Needs to Be Paved.

This article explores several issues surrounding the American Psychological Association's accredited doctoral training of clinical psychologists. There is a movement to combat the use of psychiatric drugs with psycho-social treatments. However, as will be examined, such treatments seem to not work well. If there is to be a sincere challenge to the growing use of toxic psychiatric drugs then better psycho-social treatment efficacy rates are critical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]