Our annual meeting for all program representatives was held at the New York Marriott Marquis. Forty one program representatives attended the meeting and participated in discussions regarding PCSAS as well as many other issues that are important to the promotion and preservation of training in psychological clinical science.
Doug Samuel served as our representative to this year's program committee, working closely with Tom Olino from Temple, the SSCP program member. They helped to produce an amazing series of talks and symposia that kept all of us engaged throughout the week. As always, clinical science was integrated with all of the other domains of psychological science, and that is the beauty of APS. Thank you to Doug and Tom for all of their hard work!
Dick McFall delivered a fascinating lecture on the history of training in clinical psychology, in which he underscored the need for (and importance of) the development of APCS and the PCSAS accreditation system. McFall APS Talk 2015 & Notes.pptx. Photos of this even are attached below.
Dick McFall addressing the group that attended his invited talk titled "Psychological Clinical Science: Past, Present, and Future.
The 2015 meeting marked our 20th anniversary. We held a small celebration in addition to our usual program activities. Among those attending (photo below) were: Debi Bell, Dave Sbarra, Bethany Teachman, and Marc Atkins. For additional photos, please see "Annual Meetings (2015)" under the "About " heading on this web page.
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...