The Board of Directors of ABCT, an organization whose members include approximately 5,000 mental health professionals, voted in May, 2014 to endorse the PCSAS accreditation system for clinical science training. A copy of their letter is attached here. "The emphasis on science," explained President Dean McKay, Ph.D., "leads us to support those states and provinces that would grant license-eligibility to graduates of programs that promote science-centered education and training."
PCSAS is an independent, non-profit body incorporated in December 2007 to provide rigorous, objective, and empirically based accreditation of Ph.D. programs in psychological clinical science (the terms psychological clinical science and scientific clinical psychology are used interchangeably).
There are a multitude of reasons why APS is vital to you and to the science of psychology. From our advocacy efforts to our acclaimed scientific journals to our promotion of the education of psychology, APS is working hard to ensure the vitality and the advancement of psychology as a science.
The Delaware Project aims to redefine psychological clinical science training in ways that emphasize continuity across a spectrum of research activities concerned with (a) basic mechanisms of psychopathology and behavior change, (b) intervention generation and refinement, (c) intervention efficacy and effectiveness...