42 ABPP Mentoring Project: Call for Mentors

DIVISION 42 ABPP MENTORING PROJECT
2010 PRESIDENTIAL INITIATIVE
CALL FOR MENTORS

INTRODUCTION

As one of her 2010 presidential initiatives, Dr. Lisa Grossman is launching a program that will mentor Division 42 members for the ABPP Senior Certification in Clinical Psychology. If successful, expanding the program to regular ABPP Certification in Clinical Psychology as well as other specialties might be considered for the future.  Dr. Grossman has appointed Dr. Armand R. Cerbone to coordinate the program.

GOALS FOR MENTORS

The goal for the mentors will be to shepherd Division 42 members through the process of obtaining Board Certification. Each mentor will be assigned at least one member who is interested in Board Certification. The mentor shall review, advise, assist and support the 42 member throughout the Certification process.  Several colleagues who are ABPP certified in clinical psychology have already  volunteered and are prepared to assist interested members. 

RESPONSIBILITIES OF MENTORS

• Advise and support member who is considering Board Certification
• Assist when needed with the initial application process
• Assist in the development of work sample/statement. (N.B. This does not include writing the statement, but making recommendations, and suggestions regarding content areas, narrative flow, organization and coherence of the work statement.)
• Support the member in the preparation for the oral examination

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INTERESTED IN BEING A MENTOR? 

Contact: Dr. Armand R. Cerbone at arcerbone@aol.com or Ms. Jeannie Beeaff at div42apa@cox.net

ELIGIBILITY FOR SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION

To attain board certification in a specialty, an applicant must meet the general and the specialty eligibility requirements which include:

• A doctoral degree from a program in professional psychology which at the time the degree was granted was accredited by the APA, CPA, or was listed in the publication Doctoral Psychology Programs Meeting Designation Criteria. Applicants credentialed in the most recent directory of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, or who hold the Certificate of Professional Qualification in Psychology (CPQ) from the ASPPB qualify as meeting the doctoral degree requirements.
• Licensure or Certification: All ABPP candidates in the U.S, its territories or Canada must be licensed as a psychologist for independent practice in a jurisdiction in the U.S., its territories or Canada.

Note: Limited exceptions exist for prior to 1983 doctoral preparation, degrees granted outside the U.S or Canada, formal retraining, and substantial equivalents to accreditation requirements. Exception criteria and procedures are available from ABPP Central Office.

SPECIALTY-SPECIFIC ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

1. An approved internship is required; (An APA-approved internship is not always a requirement)
2. One year of formal postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology OR two years of supervised postdoctoral work experience
3. The education and training preparation in the specialty should meet APA accreditation requirements for the specialty.

SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST OPTION

PSYCHOLOGISTS QUALIFY FOR THE SENIOR OPTION IF THAY HAVE HAD AT LEAST 15 YEARS OF PRACTICE POST LICENSURE.

Psychologists who qualify for the Senior Psychologist Option must submit a Curriculum Vitae and Professional Statement. In addition to the Curriculum Vitae and Professional Statement, the Senior Candidate MUST include one or more of the following: professional publications, brochures, outlines, presentations, or portfolios regarding scholarship, assessments, interventions, consultations, or supervision/teaching/management activities related to the practice of clinical psychology. Specifically, Candidates qualifying as seniors may provide information reflecting more distinctive practice patterns resulting from extended professional experience, e.g., areas of consultation; contracted service responsibilities; special grants; program administration/supervision; graduate school, internship, or residency program contributions, involvement, or clinical level teaching; Continuing Professional Education program presentations, program evaluation or research, professional publications related to the practice of the specialty, or the organization and pattern of the Candidate’s current clinical practice.

NOTE:  TAPED ASSESSMENT, INTERVENTION, CONSULTATION, OR SUPERVISION/TEACHING/MANAGEMENT PRACTICE SAMPLES ARE NOT REQUIRED.

CURRICULUM VITAE

All practice samples must include a Curriculum Vitae that details the Candidate’s professional contributions. The Curriculum Vitae must include educational and training background, professional roles and responsibilities, and professional contributions (e.g., service activities, publications, presentations, grants).

PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT

The Professional Statement (no more than 10 double-spaced, typewritten pages) must address in separate sections each of the following items:

1. Description of current professional work (employment and professional activities at the local, state, and national level), continuing professional education activities, long term plans in psychology, and reasons for board certification
2. Evidence of science base and application by addressing (a) discussion of evidence base that informs one’s practice as a Clinical Psychologist OR (b) description of one’s own current clinical-research activities
3. Assessment, intervention, consultation, and supervision/teaching/management activities (the latter only if applicable) and theoretical and empirical basis for these activities
4. Examples of handling of complex interpersonal interactions (i.e., conflicts or disagreements in work relationships, challenging relationship dilemmas with clients/patients) in one or more of the domains of scholarship, assessment, intervention, consultation, and supervision/teaching/management
5. Examples of awareness of individual and cultural diversity as pertinent to one’s scholarship, assessments, interventions, consultations, and supervision/teaching/management (the latter only if applicable)
6. Description of a meaningful and challenging ethical dilemma personally encountered, the aspects of the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct pertinent to the dilemma, and how the dilemma was managed
7. Verification that no ethical/legal action has been taken against Candidate since candidacy
    

SENIOR PSYCHOLOGIST PRACTICE SAMPLE OPTION