APCS leaders sponsored a reception at ABCT, bringing together representatives from several internship programs and doctoral programs. This informal gathering was designed to extend discussions (started last year) concerned with the future of internship training and the clinical science model.
Several representatives of the APCS executive committee are also working with leaders from other relevant organizations to build a new Coalition for the Advancement and Application of Psychological Science (CAAPS). CAAPS grew out of two informal meetings of psychological associations interested in clinical science issues -- held in August and November, 2015. These organizations included SSCP, ABCT, CUDCP, COGDOP, APPIC, and APS. Representatives of these organizations continue to meet in order to identify ways of working together on issues that include: how to promote the best clinical and psychological science in practice and research, how our science is seen by the public, how to have a positive influent on those who pay for clinical services, and how to fund clinical and basic research. For an up-date on these discussions and the current state of CAAPS, please plan to attend our annual APCS meeting in Chicago!
PCSAS is an independent, non-profit body incorporated in December 2007 to provide rigorous, objective, and empirically based accreditation of Ph.D. programs in psychological clinical science (the terms psychological clinical science and scientific clinical psychology are used interchangeably).
There are a multitude of reasons why APS is vital to you and to the science of psychology. From our advocacy efforts to our acclaimed scientific journals to our promotion of the education of psychology, APS is working hard to ensure the vitality and the advancement of psychology as a science.
The Delaware Project aims to redefine psychological clinical science training in ways that emphasize continuity across a spectrum of research activities concerned with (a) basic mechanisms of psychopathology and behavior change, (b) intervention generation and refinement, (c) intervention efficacy and effectiveness...