APCS has sponsored the development of a new accreditation system for training in clinical psychology. A brief description of this system, known as the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) is provided here.
The following article provides a more detailed argument for the importance of training that simultaneously integrates an emphasis on science and practice.
Current status and future prospects of clinical psychology: Toward a scientifically principled approach to mental and behavioral health care. (by Timothy Baker, Richard McFall, and Varda Shoham).
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...