On Board
with Professional Psychology
Issue 2
Letter from Outgoing ABPP BOT President
Brenda J. Spiegler, PhD, CPsych, ABPP
Letter from Incoming ABPP BOT President
J. Rick Day, MBA, PhD, PsyD, ABPP
Announcements
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...
2023 Year-End Board of Trustees Meeting
The Board of Trustees of the American Board of Professional Psychology attended the annual year-end meeting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on November 30-December 2,...
Ethics Corner
Introducing the Ethics Corner
On behalf of the ABPP Ethics Committee, it is a pleasure to announce the launch of the “Ethics Corner” in 2024 which will be found in the On Board with Professional Psychology publication. The Ethics...
Read MoreArticles
- Adriana Sum Miu, Leonardo Caraballo
Board certification may not be the top priority for many early career psychologists (ECPs). After transitions from graduate school, internship, and possibly postdoctoral fellowships, ECPs...
- Lindsay Phillips, Leonardo Caraballo
Over the past two years, the American Board of Clinical Psychology (ABCP) and the Academy of ABCP worked to develop and implement several awards. In...
- Cortney S. Warren
The inclusion of Substance-Related and Other Addictive Disorders to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5th ed. (DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) signifies an...
- Jonathan G. Perle, Jennifer Cecilione Herbst
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many dramatic changes to the provision of behavioral healthcare, with few more impactful than the rapid transition from traditional in-person...
- Jonathan G. Perle, Carly E. McCord
The American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) holds a mission of serving the public by promoting the provision of quality psychological services through the examination...
- Florence W. Kaslow
Preface: This article emanates from an invited presentation given at the 2023 APA Annual Convention in Washington DC on August 4, 2023. The author, Dr....
- Ronn Johnson
Introduction Psychologists operate within a complex array of intersecting demands from structural barriers imposed by a health care system that overlaps with ethnoracial, ethical, personal,...
- William Frye, Sarah Sobalvarro
Over the past several decades, the demand for psychological services has significantly increased. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated this demand and research has demonstrated an increase...
- David A. Jobes
When I reflect back on my formative days in graduate school and early-on in my career, I was mentored by psychologists who were all board...
- Diane Logan
Having eagerly awaited the Addiction Psychology specialty approval, I was thrilled when the timing aligned for me to apply at the tail end of my...
On Board with Professional Psychology (previously The Specialist) was transitioning to its current online format during 2022 year, and thus did not publish a list of candidates boarded during that year. To honor and recognize all of our newly boarded candidates, those who were boarded during both years are included in this issue.
Congratulations, and welcome to the ABPP specialist community!
Call for Papers
On Board with Professional Psychology is requesting brief articles for our next issue, to be published in June 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 welcome your pitches and ideas.
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