Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology: Clerical Errors Corrected but Inferences Unchanged

The Yu et al. (1997) study on correlates of mean score on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) contained some clerical errors that are corrected here. The findings and associated inferences are basically the same after making these corrections as they were before. Academically stronger clinical psychology programs have graduates who tend to score higher on the EPPP. An additional analysis using only professional schools revealed that programs approved by the American Psychological Association and those that are not freestanding tend to produce graduates with higher scores.

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Comparing Professional Schools and Traditional Clinical Program Faculty on Measures of Professional and Scientific Achievement

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.95.3.837-840 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 95 (3) ◽

pp. 837-840

Author(s):

Mindy Jane Tews ◽

Donald I. Templer ◽

Shelley Stokes ◽

Valerie Forward

Keyword(s):

Clinical Psychology ◽

American Psychological Association ◽

Professional Psychology ◽

Professional Schools ◽

American Psychological ◽

Psychology Programs ◽

Professional Programs ◽

Clinical Psychology Programs ◽

Traditional Programs ◽

Clinical Program

474 faculty in 56 professional clinical psychology programs were compared with 972 faculty from 157 traditional clinical psychology programs. The faculty in the professional programs were more likely to be licensed (93% to 85%) and to be diplomates of the American Board of Professional Psychology (15% to 11%, respectively). The faculty in traditional programs averaged more publications (35 vs 17) and citations, and they were more likely to be fellows of the American Psychological Association (26% to 11%). These differences appear congruent with the different missions and objectives of the two types of programs. There were no differences in the number of years since the doctorate, used as a measure of professional experience.

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Sport Psychology as Viewed by Chairpersons of APA-Approved Clinical Psychology Programs

The Sport Psychologist ◽

10.1123/tsp.4.1.18 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 18-24 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Arnold LeUnes ◽

Sue Ann Hayward

Keyword(s):

Data Analysis ◽

Sport Psychology ◽

Clinical Psychology ◽

American Psychological Association ◽

American Psychological ◽

Psychology Programs ◽

Clinical Psychology Programs ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Sport Psychologist ◽

Licensing Laws

Departmental chairpersons of American Psychological Association-approved clinical psychology programs responded to a questionnaire concerned with selected aspects of sport psychology. Of 147 chairs, 102 (69.4%) returned the instrument. The nine questions comprising the instrument were aimed at assessing the current perception of and future predictions for sport psychology. Data analysis is supportive of the viability of sport psychology but also indicates that it is not a major curricular component in selected psychology departments at the present time. Sport psychology appears to be positively perceived by the current respondents, and there is little evidence of an impending turf war between psychology and physical education over who will control the field. However, the use of the term sport psychologist is seen as contentious in view of state/provincial licensing laws, but no clear-cut answer to credentialing is foreseen.

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Demystifying One’s Chances of Acceptance into Clinical PhD Psychology Programs

Teaching of Psychology ◽

10.1177/0098628319889537 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 97-101

Author(s):

Jonathan M. Golding ◽

Mary Beth McGavran ◽

David Susman ◽

Raymond Wright

Keyword(s):

Clinical Psychology ◽

American Psychological Association ◽

Application Process ◽

Psychology Programs ◽

Clinical Psychology Programs ◽

Clinical Psychology Program ◽

Number Of Individuals ◽

Phd Programs ◽

Phd Program ◽

Program Data

The present study investigated the commonly accepted view from various sources (e.g., American Psychological Association [APA]), which indicates the significant difficulty in being accepted into a PhD in clinical psychology program. Data were collected (total number of applicants, applicants accepted, and number of accepted students who matriculated) from 100 APA-accredited PhD in clinical psychology programs that are also members of the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology. These data were used to examine why the probability of acceptance into at least one clinical PhD program may be higher than previously thought. The results showed an acceptance–matriculation discrepancy—the overall number of individuals accepted into clinical psychology PhD programs is higher than that of matriculated students. In addition, being accepted into a clinical PhD program is a function of the number of applications per applicant. The article concludes with a discussion of how applicants to clinical PhD programs should approach the application process.

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Score on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology as a Function of Attributes of Clinical Psychology Graduate Programs

Psychological Science ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9280.1997.tb00423.x ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 347-350 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Laurina M. Yu ◽

Sharon A. Rinaldi ◽

Donald I. Templer ◽

Louise A. Colbert ◽

Karen Siscoe ◽

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Keyword(s):

Professional Practice ◽

Clinical Psychology ◽

Graduate Programs ◽

American Psychological Association ◽

Graduate Record Examination ◽

American Psychological ◽

Doctoral Recipients ◽

Quantitative Score ◽

Student Ratios

Graduate programs' correlates with doctoral recipients' scores on the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) were determined Higher EPPP score was associated with larger faculty-to-student ratios, smaller clinical programs traditional as opposed to professional program orientation, and Ph D rather than Psy D awarded Programs approved by the American Psychological Association and those that scored favorably on a number of objective indices also produced graduates with high EPPP scores Among the more frequently used admissions requirements median Quantitative score on the Graduate Record Examination correlated most highly with EPPP score

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