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Pike’s Peak model

a competencies-based approach to training professionals in the delivery of psychological services to older adults. The model provides nonmandatory guidelines that allow individuals from the doctoral to the postlicensure level of training to obtain professional development in this domain. [delineated during the 2006 National Conference on Training in Professional Geropsychology in Colorado Springs, Colorado]

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September 8th 2024

drift

drift

n.

1. a reduction in variation in genetic traits that can occur when sampling from continually smaller groups, such that some traits ultimately become excluded from possibility.

2. a reduction in the reliability of technical instruments orin the accuracy of observers over time. See instrument drift; observer drift.