Update from the APA Education Directorate February 2012 Catherine L. Grus, Ph.D., Deputy Executive Director, Education Directorate American Psychological Association

EdAT Graduate Psychology Education Program Health service psychologists, interdisciplinary, underserved populations Total funding for GPE since 2002: $31.7 million

Competency Benchmarks

New: Benchmarks Evaluation System Maintains consistency with benchmarks model Organized by clusters Behavioral anchors moved to appendix Evaluation form(s) available on APA website http://www.apa.org/ed/graduate/benchmarks-evaluation-system.aspx

BEA Virtual Working Group on Restrictions Affecting Diversity Training in Graduate Education Arizona, Michigan legislation Tracking system in place Prepare materials for programs Values Statement of Counseling Psychology

Education and Training for Health Service Psychologists Work Group (E&T 4 HSP) APA, CCTC, COGDOP Met 3 times Draft blueprint March 2012

Overlap Overlap Some programs are “combined”

Health Service Psychology

7 Major Issues Issue #1. There should be guidelines for qualifications to enter doctoral programs that prepare health service psychologists Issue #2. The competencies of psychologists who provide health services should be clearly articulated and understood by faculty, students, regulators and the public Issue #3. Psychology needs to establish the standard of self-regulation for its education and training in the profession. Issue #4. Psychology needs to evaluate and articulate the learning objectives for each level in its sequence of education and training of health service providers, as well as examine the sequence itself.

Issue #5. There needs to be increased focus on competency assessment in psychology education and training for the delivery of health care services. Issue #6. The future of health service psychology rests on the integration of science and practice. Education and training should be an integrative endeavor, both within and across content and levels in the curriculum as well as across the activities of research and health service provision. Issue #7. Psychology needs more research relevant to the preparation of health service psychologists and must have a comprehensive workforce analysis.     Rationale: Movement to a competency based model of preparation for HSPs requires confidence in the adequacy of competency assessment. Tasks: Develop best practices for assessment of undergraduate preparation, broad and general, competency benchmarks. Incentivize and disseminate innovations in how to assess competency benchmarks. -how can we use technology better - simulations 

Issue #2. The competencies of psychologists who provide health services should be clearly articulated and understood by faculty, students, regulators and the public Implications for education and training: More focus on biology Interprofessional competence Self-assessment and lifelong learning Practice based research skills QI, outcomes research, program eval, needs assessment, cost-benefit models

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