Learning the Fundamentals of Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control
Clinical hypnosis can be an effective, evidence-based intervention for managing pain and relieving suffering. Here’s how to learn it.
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Enhancing Patient Access to Specialized Clinical Psychology Services through Direct-To-Patient Telehealth
Telehealth services allow specialists to reach a wider range of patients and remove barriers to accessing care.
Shifting to a Specialty and Subspecialty Developmental Model: Making Specialist Pathways in Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology and Psychoanalysis More Accessible, Equitable, and Inclusive
The American Board Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology now offers a specialty and subspecialty certification, aiming to include a broader range of training experiences.
Protecting Test Secure Information: Ensuring Valid Future Test Use is an Obligation Spanning All Psychology Specialties
Protecting the security of psychological tests is crucial for maintaining the validity and future use of these instruments, but threats exist.
From Data to Depth: Bridging Idiographic and Nomothetic Personality Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence could be a significant boon for the field of personality assessment. Learn about its risks, benefits, and potential uses.
Pain Psychology: A Path to Creative Expression
Pain medicine is a specialized area of practice that benefits from the expertise of psychologists and transcends several ABPP specialties.
Cultural Humility and Diversity Efforts in Professional Psychology Should Include Religion and Spirituality
Religion and spirituality are important, yet often neglected, dimensions of diversity.
The Importance of Board Certification in Psychology: A 25 Year Retrospective
Two specialists recently published a 25-year retrospective on the history and importance of board certification in professional psychology.
The Psychology Taxonomy: A New Tool for Specialist Training
The Psychology Taxonomy allows psychologists and training programs to assess how their experiences align with the various training pathways toward specialist board certification. In 2007, the American Psychological Association approved funds for a workgroup to convene and begin working on the development of a taxonomy for education and training programs in psychology. (It should be … Read more
Want to use ABPP’s logo? Here’s how
In 2021, the Board of Trustees voted to allow Specialists to use the ABPP logo to help increase the visibility of ABPP board certification. The ABPP logo is for Specialist identification purposes only and does not imply that ABPP endorses the content of the item on which the logo is imprinted. Please feel free to … Read more