The American Psychological Association should defend ALL psychologists #AllPsychologists
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Chris Tito
9 years ago
Be ashamed APA
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Anonymous
10 years ago
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Currently in the process of applying for pre-doctoral internships and it is more than likely I will be at a site that is non-accredited. It is disheartening as a doctoral student to see the prejudice shown towards non-accreditated sites and the potential difficulties it can cause for future employment. As psychologist, you would think individual differences would be something that be accounted for, since it is so heavily stressed in our education in training. Unfortunately, it is not. Hopefully, a change will come.
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Victoria Kuhl, PhD
10 years ago
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I have done disability evaluations for decades, and I am still barred from working at the VA, despite the fact that it has a massive backlog due to a shortage of psychologists. I resent the APA's implication that my training was substandard and I am sick of the APA constantly attacking other psychologists. Psychology is the only profession I know of that goes after its own members and tries to drive them out of practice.
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Antonio Anglero
10 years ago
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I have served in the military for 10 years. Now that I am getting out I can not work int he VA? This is unfair especially since I have been supervising interns in miitlary sites.
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Ronald Giannetti
10 years ago
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I have been the DCT of two APA approved doctoral programs. I have seen first hand the unnecessary damage we are causing ourselves. The negative consequences of codifying the requirement for an accredited internship can not be evaded.
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Shelia Heard
11 years ago
I am currently working toward my Masters Clinical Psychology and have not started internships as of yet. However, I do believe APA should represent all psychologist. I came across this site looking for other information, I would suggest making this petition more known and others may sign to get your goal of 10,000. Otherwise, they may never know about it.
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Joseph Grillo, Ph.D.
12 years ago
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I graduated from an APA-accredited program and internship, but oppose APA's non-evidenced based assumptions regarding what constitutes a competent psychologist. The COA promulgates standards that have no basis empirically, and without having a meaningful dialogue with groups, such as CAPIC, that have internships that produce excellent psychologists. As usual, APA wastes its efforts on attacking its own while the other mental health professions take away the positions that used to be ours. It is time to force the COA to come to the table to talk about an internship solution and stop this thinly-veiled attack on the professional schools it accredits.
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Cynthia Maguire
12 years ago
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I am a specialist in trauma treatment working for the military. I lost my job because I didn't have an APA internship. I hired an attorney to fight this on my own when the APA wouldn't help me.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
The APA accreditation requirement of the VA limits quality psychologists in general and I imagine decreases diversity of the psychologists even more.
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Anonymous
13 years ago
It's about time someone represents the interest of licensed psychologists who didn't have an APA approved internship or program. I would think that the licensing exam is the determining factor for competency. I guess it's all about politics and not really about practice. The APA doesn't have a problem accepting my annual dues though.
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Aimee Yermish
13 years ago
For re-entry students (nontraditional, career-change, etc), the APA internship system is often simply not an option. There aren't enough slots and being older, not geographically mobile, and coming from professional programs instead of research programs (since research programs don't usually want us either) makes you much less likely to match. Plus, we may not be able to swing extra years before getting back to actually earning money. With this scarlet letter, not only are jobs at the APA inaccessible, so are many other options, including most specialty postdocs and most professional boards. Yet there is no evidence to support this discrimination. And once you don't have the APA internship, there is no way to go back and retroactively fix it. I pay my APA dues just like everyone else and I went to an APA-accredited program and met state requirements for licensure. Why does APA make such a slap in the face and threaten my licensure mobility? How does this serve the profession or the public?
Be ashamed APA
Currently in the process of applying for pre-doctoral internships and it is more than likely I will be at a site that is non-accredited. It is disheartening as a doctoral student to see the prejudice shown towards non-accreditated sites and the potential difficulties it can cause for future employment. As psychologist, you would think individual differences would be something that be accounted for, since it is so heavily stressed in our education in training. Unfortunately, it is not. Hopefully, a change will come.
I have done disability evaluations for decades, and I am still barred from working at the VA, despite the fact that it has a massive backlog due to a shortage of psychologists. I resent the APA's implication that my training was substandard and I am sick of the APA constantly attacking other psychologists. Psychology is the only profession I know of that goes after its own members and tries to drive them out of practice.
I have served in the military for 10 years. Now that I am getting out I can not work int he VA? This is unfair especially since I have been supervising interns in miitlary sites.
I have been the DCT of two APA approved doctoral programs. I have seen first hand the unnecessary damage we are causing ourselves. The negative consequences of codifying the requirement for an accredited internship can not be evaded.
I am currently working toward my Masters Clinical Psychology and have not started internships as of yet. However, I do believe APA should represent all psychologist. I came across this site looking for other information, I would suggest making this petition more known and others may sign to get your goal of 10,000. Otherwise, they may never know about it.
I graduated from an APA-accredited program and internship, but oppose APA's non-evidenced based assumptions regarding what constitutes a competent psychologist. The COA promulgates standards that have no basis empirically, and without having a meaningful dialogue with groups, such as CAPIC, that have internships that produce excellent psychologists. As usual, APA wastes its efforts on attacking its own while the other mental health professions take away the positions that used to be ours. It is time to force the COA to come to the table to talk about an internship solution and stop this thinly-veiled attack on the professional schools it accredits.
I am a specialist in trauma treatment working for the military. I lost my job because I didn't have an APA internship. I hired an attorney to fight this on my own when the APA wouldn't help me.
The APA accreditation requirement of the VA limits quality psychologists in general and I imagine decreases diversity of the psychologists even more.
It's about time someone represents the interest of licensed psychologists who didn't have an APA approved internship or program. I would think that the licensing exam is the determining factor for competency. I guess it's all about politics and not really about practice. The APA doesn't have a problem accepting my annual dues though.
For re-entry students (nontraditional, career-change, etc), the APA internship system is often simply not an option. There aren't enough slots and being older, not geographically mobile, and coming from professional programs instead of research programs (since research programs don't usually want us either) makes you much less likely to match. Plus, we may not be able to swing extra years before getting back to actually earning money. With this scarlet letter, not only are jobs at the APA inaccessible, so are many other options, including most specialty postdocs and most professional boards. Yet there is no evidence to support this discrimination. And once you don't have the APA internship, there is no way to go back and retroactively fix it. I pay my APA dues just like everyone else and I went to an APA-accredited program and met state requirements for licensure. Why does APA make such a slap in the face and threaten my licensure mobility? How does this serve the profession or the public?