The Academy seeks as members both doctoral programs and internship programs that are strongly committed to research training and the integration of such training and its knowledge base with clinical training. The members of APCS are programs rather than individuals.
Programs are admitted to Academy membership after submitting formal applications(with a $400 application fee) and undergoing anonymous peer reviews based on a “study-section review” model.
For application instructions, please click below.
Application Instructions for Internship Programs
Application Instructions for Doctoral Programs
Applicants submit a variety of materials (click above for instructions), which reviewers use to make global evaluations of the applicant program’s overall quality, integrity, and record of achievement in scientific training. We encourage programs to be as creative as possible in crafting their applications and do not want to suggest that there is a single best way to prepare this material. Nevertheless, it may be helpful to see examples of successful applications that have been submitted in recent years. With the permission of these programs, we offer the following samples.
Programs interested in becoming members of APCS should contact the chairperson of the membership committee for details:
Jennifer Cheavens
The Ohio State University
cheavens.1@osu.edu
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.
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