Introduction. Evaluating competencies required for professional practice is a matter of
particular current interest. Its importance lies in improvements that can be made in both …

Competence is of paramount importance to training in professional psychology, yet little
research has addressed the development of psychometrically sound instruments for …

Professional competence is of paramount importance to the field of professional psychology.
However, little research in the field has examined what it means to be a competent …

Abstract The Competency Benchmarks document outlines core foundational and functional
competencies in professional psychology across three levels of professional development …

Purpose–This study aims to examine the self-perceived competencies of 231 Italian
students enrolled in a psychological degree program and involved in a practicum. It …

This article presents guiding principles for the assessment of competence developed by the
members of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Assessment of …

During the past 10 years, professional psychology has embarked on a major effort to
reconceptualize its training model, shifting from a focus on the number of hours spent …

In the past decade, American professional psychology has taken significant steps toward a
unified statement of the competencies that define the practice of psychology, regardless of …

Abstract This introduces the Special Issue on Competency. We briefly trace the history of the
Competency Initiative in the training of health service psychologists that began in 2002 and …

In developing European standards for the psychological profession, 2 approaches to the
definition of professional competence have been proposed. One focuses on the roles and …