This article highlights how syndemic processes related to the coronavirus disease-2019
(COVID-19) pandemic, racial injustice, and economic instability serve as catalysts for …

The contemporary commitment to competence in professional psychology occurs even as
the field itself confronts considerable challenge and change. This chapter addresses key …

What kinds of professional development activities do psychologists participate in and to what
extent do these activities contribute to ongoing professional competence? A conceptual …

Professional psychology training programs exert a powerful influence on the ways in which
trainees come to appreciate and respond to the ethical mandate to ensure their own …

Over half of the clinical psychologists graduating each year come from professionally
oriented doctoral programs in psychology. Therefore, the impact of the type of training those …

Competency-based education (CBE) is a model that guides the educational process toward
acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for effective professional practice …

Professional development (PD) is a broad, albeit vaguely defined, construct that underlies
psychologists' education and training and is intrinsic to professional functioning, or …

Professional psychology has begun shifting toward a competency-based model of training.
The articles on the Competency Benchmarks and the Competency Assessment Toolkit in …

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 …

What is professional competence and how should it be assessed? Professionalism in
psychology requires the habitual and judicious use of knowledge and skills as well as …