Update from the ABPP President
Learn about current organizational initiatives and updates from ABPP’s President, Dr. Rick Day.
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ABPP Foundation’s 2024 Scholarship Recipients
The American Board of Professional Psychology Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2024 scholarships. The scholarships are made available to individuals who are applying for their initial board certification. Funding for the scholarships is made available through the generous donations of individual ABPP specialists like yourself, the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and … Read more
Call for Papers
On Board with Professional Psychology is requesting brief articles for our next issue, to be published in Nobember 2024. Please consider submitting pieces that would be broadly informative to ABPP specialists across disciplines, as well as pieces that address hot topics from within your speciality. We particularly encourage cross-specialty collaborations and pieces representing a diversity of perspectives. … Read more
2024 Mid-Year Board of Trustees Meeting
The Board of Trustees of the American Board of Professional Psychology attended the annual mid-year meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on June 21-22, 2024. New leadership was welcomed, current leaders were honored, and a productive, collaborative time was had by all. We thank all of our Board of Trustee Representatives, Specialist Boards, and Liaisons … Read more
Newly Boarded Specialists
Congratulations to newly-boarded specialists who completed their oral exams during 2024 thus far! Newly Boarded Specialists 2024 Newly Boarded Subspecialists 2024 The American Board of Addiction Psychology and the American Board of Serious Mental Illness Psychology are provisionally-approved boards seeking full ABPP affiliation. In that process, the following have successfully passed the examination during 2024.
Donate to the ABPP Foundation!
When you consider your charitable contributions during the 2024 year, please consider giving to the American Board of Professional Psychology Foundation. Your gift will benefit the Foundation’s efforts to offer scholarships and grants to help cover the costs of board certification for qualified psychologists and to help make a difference in people’s lives. Donate online … Read more
“Doctors Don’t Go to Therapy”: Helping Providers Access Mental Healthcare
Physicians: A Surprisingly Vulnerable Population In the last year, most of us have had an encounter with our medical doctor. In the patient role, many of us maintain the image of physicians as a robust group, untouched by basic life stressors. However, data suggest that this perception is inaccurate. According to a recent survey of … Read more
Habituation: Friend or Foe?
The methods of treatment for psychological disorders have typically drawn on research literature and theory generated by Pavlov, Thorndyke, Skinner and others. In the aggregate, both classical conditioning and operant conditioning models have been employed to reduce anxiety, eliminate phobias, lessen depression and improve self-control. Applications of these methods became common in domains very different … Read more
Implications for Artificial Intelligence in Forensic Psychological Practice and Board Certification
This article is part of a Special Section of On Board with Professional Psychology that focuses on the intersection of professional psychology and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Learn more about ABPP’s Artificial Intelligence Taskforce in this issue. Current Uses of AI in Forensic Practice Artificial intelligence (AI) is a term with multiple definitions, although is generally … Read more
The Immense Value of the Mental Health Technician and How Psychologists Can Support Them
It is no secret that access to mental health services in the United States remains a challenge. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports that almost half of adults in the United States dealing with mental illness do not receive care, with the lack of access to mental health providers being a major contributing … Read more