(B) 2 out of every 100 children and adoles-
cents have major depression, and 20 percent of 
older adults suffer from depression; 
(C) depression is a condition commonly as-
sociated with suicide and older adults are dis-
proportionately likely to die by suicide; and 
(D) in general, suicide rates for adults and 
children are higher in rural communities than 
in urban communities; 
(8) in 2007, the President’s Commission on 
Care For America’s Returning Wounded Warriors 
(the ‘‘Dole-Shalala Commission’’)— 
(A) recommended that the Department of 
Defense aggressively address the acute shortage 
of mental health clinicians in the Armed 
Forces; 
(B) recognized that the health care system 
in the United States is certain to experience in-
creased strain for years to come as active duty 
servicemembers re-enter civilian society in local 
communities and turn to mental health care 
professionals skilled in treating such combat 
stress disorders and their effects on families, 
which is especially significant due to the ex-
pected long-term demand that may arise from 
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chronic or delayed-onset symptoms of post-trau-
matic stress disorder; 
(C) reported that the Armed Forces’s new 
efforts to prevent mental health problems and 
identify symptoms more quickly have severely 
stretched the already thin mental health pro-
gram staff; and 
(D) reported that hospitals located in geo-
graphically isolated or less desirable areas re-
port great difficulty recruiting civilian staff; 
and 
(9) the determinants of human health include a 
complex array of biological, environmental, and so-
cial factors, an individual’s behavior and coping re-
sources, and an individual’s access to health care; al-
though biologic interventions, including medications 
and immunizations, often are considered the hall-
mark of medical practice, the role of behavior and 
psychosocial components has received increasing at-
tention, and, because approximately half of mortality 
in the United States is linked to behavior, behavioral 
science and practice are fundamental to addressing 
societal needs. 
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SEC. 3. PROMOTING EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PSY-
CHOLOGISTS TO PROVIDE MENTAL AND BE-
HAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES TO UNDER-
SERVED POPULATIONS. 
Part E of title VII of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 294n et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘Subpart 3—Mental and Behavioral Health Care 
Workforce 
‘‘SEC. 775. PROGRAM FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION AND 
TRAINING IN PSYCHOLOGY. 
‘‘(a) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary may award 
grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to accred-
ited doctoral, internship, and residency programs in psy-
chology for the development and implementation of pro-
grams to provide interdisciplinary training in integrated 
health care settings to students in doctoral psychology 
programs, including interns and residents in such pro-
grams. Any training funded by such grants, cooperative 
agreements, or contracts shall focus on the needs of under-
served populations. 
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive an award 
under this section an entity shall— 
‘‘(1) provide training at or through an accred-
ited doctoral program in psychology, including an in-
ternship or residency program; and 
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‘‘(2) prepare and submit to the Secretary an 
application at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may re-
quire. 
‘‘(c) EVALUATION
OF PROGRAMS.—The Secretary 
shall evaluate any program implemented through an 
award under this section in order to determine the effect 
of such program on increasing the number of psychologists 
who provide mental and behavioral health services to un-
derserved populations. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘underserved population’ means 
individuals, especially older adults, children, chron-
ically ill individuals, victims of abuse or trauma, and 
victims of combat- or war-related stress disorders, 
including post-traumatic stress disorder and trau-
matic brain injury, and their families, living in an 
urban or rural area that has a shortage of mental 
or behavioral health services; and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘interdisciplinary training’ means 
training for graduate psychology students with 1 or 
more of the other health professions, including medi-
cine, nursing, dentistry, and pharmacy. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—To 
carry out this section, there is authorized to be appro-
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priated $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2010, $12,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2011, $14,000,000 for fiscal year 2012, 
$16,000,000 for fiscal year 2013, and $18,000,000 for fis-
cal year 2014.’’. 
Æ 
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