APA-Accredited Programs is a database of up-to-date listings of programs' accredited status, including: doctoral programs (clinical, counseling, school and combined); internship programs; and postdoctoral residency programs (traditional clinical and specialty).

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The APA Practice Organization promotes and supports the interests of practicing psychologists. In collaboration with state, provincial and territorial psychological associations, APA Practice Organisations pursues a wide range of activities to promote and support practicing psychologists including creating tools and information to help manage and grow your practice; advocating for your interests in Congress, state legislatures and the courts; pursuing fair reimbursement for all psychological services; fighting parity violations and other managed care abuses; affirming the doctoral standard for entry into the profession; and protecting you from assaults to your scope of practice.

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APA Style CENTRAL is a revolutionary new institutional learning, writing, research, and publishing solution for current and future generations of scholars. It includes editorial style concerns uniform use of such elements as punctuation and abbreviations, construction of tables, selection of headings, citation of references, and presentation of statistics.

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The Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation has a database of up-to-date listings of programs' accredited status, including: doctoral programs (clinical, counseling, school and combined); internship programs; and postdoctoral residency programs (traditional clinical and specialty).

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PsycINFO fosters the exchange of peer-reviewed research in digital format. After 50 years of digitizing and indexing literature in the behavioral and social sciences, It explores the full breadth of research in the behavioral and social sciences with confidence. Focused on the interdisciplinary aspects of the worldwide behavioral and social science research and literature, PsycINFO is unmatched as a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields across a host of academic disciplines from the historical to the cutting edge PsychInfoA single, authoritative source for interdisciplinary research, PsycINFO unlocks vital behavioral and social science linkages to a vast array of fields of study that allows you to quickly locate trusted peer-reviewed research, with the help of professional indexing by APA experts. PsycINFO shortens the amount of time spent searching by easily identifying:

• Document types, such as journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, and editorials
• Specific research methodologies, such as clinical case reports, empirical studies and literature reviews
• Documents that have tests or assessment instruments appended
• Research from a specific grant or funding source

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The Education Directorate of APA advances the science and practice of psychology for the benefit of the public through educational institutions, programs and initiatives. The directorate seeks to advance education and training in psychology and the application of psychology to education and training by:

• Enhancing the quality of teaching and learning outcomes at all levels of education and training.
• Meeting the demands of the changing demographics in a multicultural society through education and training.
• Increasing the level and availability of financial and public policy support for education and training.

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The Office of Continuing Education in Psychology provides continuing education opportunities for psychologists to expand their skills while earning continuing education  credits through a wide range of topics. This office works with the Continuing Education Committee which is responsible for overseeing the review and approval of continuing education workshops and sessions at the APA Annual Convention.

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Continuing Education (CE) Approval Programme facilitates the development and recognition of continuing education activities, the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) offers a system for reviewing and approving organizations and individuals that offer formal CE programmes and activities, including universities, clinics, professional associations, specialty societies, consulting firms, and individual psychologists. Continuing education is intended to provide psychologists with new information, research, and skills in their area of focus, but is not intended to replace formal degree or internship training. CE in psychology is an ongoing process consisting of learning activities that are relevant to psychological practice, education and science, enable psychologists to keep pace with emerging issues and technologies; and allow psychologists to maintain, develop, and increase competencies in order to improve services to the public and enhance contributions to the profession.

The CPA approval programme and associated standards apply only to the subset of CE activities that are structured and organized by a provider or sponsor. Continuing education or professional development can also occur through participation in other learning activities as well as self-directed studies. Many professions now recognize the value of structured self-initiated learning projects, personal practice reviews, audits, incident reports, utilization studies, research, teaching, and clinical practice guideline development as some of the many options that can contribute to continuing professional education.

CPA assures that the CE programmes and activities of the sponsoring organizations and individuals are adequately planned and administered to meet specified standards, criteria, and procedures. CPA, through its Registrar for the Office of Accreditation, will review proposed new activities, as well as sponsors’ ongoing activities, through the annual report process. Approval relates only to the ability to sponsor CE activities. It is not accreditation of the sponsor organization. Accreditation is reserved for formal educational training (graduate and internship) programmes. Advertising and promotional materials can refer to approval and are not to use the term ‘accreditation’. The granting of approval for an organization to sponsor CE does not constitute approval of that organization in its other activities. CPA has no legal or financial obligations to either approved sponsors or to those individuals registered for sponsors’ continuing education activities.

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The CPA relies heavily on the work of and volunteers who serve on its various committees, task forces and board committees. These include:

• Governance Committee (Formerly By-laws, Rules & Procedures, Nominations & Elections)
• Admin, Finance & Audit Committee
• Fellows & Awards Committee
• Education & Training Committee
• Scientific Affairs Committee
• Professional Affairs Committee
• Public Policy Committee
• International Affairs Committee
• Past Presidents Committee
• Management Committees:
• Convention Committee
• Membership Committee
• Publications Committee
• Arms Length Committees:
• Ethics Committee
• Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Psychological Science

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The CPA actively encourages groups of psychologists with common interests to share those interests through groups that formed from time to time and certainly change and disappear from time to time as well. Sections are the primary agents through which the particular and special needs of members are met and interests served, and have the power to initiate and undertake activities of relevance to its members; draft position papers on topics of relevance to the Section; initiate policy statements in areas of expertise; organize meetings within CPA's annual convention; make specific representation to external agencies or organizations, if it has received the approval of the Board of Directors to do so; and recommend that CPA make specific representations to external organizations or agencies. CPA’s Sections include:

• Aboriginal Psychology
• Addiction Psychology
• Adult Development and Aging
• Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Clinical Psychology
• Clinical Neuropsychology
• Community Psychology
• Counselling Psychology
• Criminal Justice Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Educational and School Psychology
• Environmental Psychology
• Extremism and Terrorism
• Family Psychology
• Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine
• History and Philosophy Section
• Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• International and Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Psychologists in Hospitals and Health Centres
• Psychology in the Military
• Psychologists and Retirement
• Psychopharmacology
• Quantitative Methods
• Quantitative Electrophysiology
• Rural and Northern Psychology
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Social and Personality Section
• Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Students
• Teaching of Psychology
• Traumatic Stress Sectio
• Section for Women And Psychology (SWAP)

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The Practice Directorate is made up of a Council of representatives from the provincial and territorial associations of psychology across Canada with a primary mandate of supporting and facilitating advocacy projects at the provincial and territorial levels including coordinating common advocacy initiatives and strategies. More…

Psychology Month is celebrated every February to highlight the contributions of Canadian psychology and to teach Canadians how psychology works to help them live healthy and happy lives, help their communities flourish, help their employers create effective workplaces, and help their governments develop good policies.

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The Recruit Research Participants Portal (R2P2) is a member-only portal has been developed to allow CPA members to post requests for other CPA members to serve as participants in their research studies. Posting requires you to provide a brief description of your project, stating who you are looking to recruit, participant obligation, and duration of data collection. Before descriptions are posted, you must provide CPA with evidence of REB approval, show that at least one member of the research team is a student or full member of CPA and have a psychologist on the research team.

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The CPA Research in Psychology Hub is an on-line members-only tool designed to allow members to connect with each other based on their areas of research expertise. Members interested in making use of the tool create a profile that highlights their areas of research specialty. The profiles will populate the database, which members can then search. Students may use it to find research mentors or graduate supervisors, while others may use it to find collaborators on a research project. CPA may use it to identify and consult research experts in a given area.

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Tthe Science Directorate is a tool to lobby government for increased funding for psychological research, promote and support the work of Canadian researchers in Psychology, and educate the public about important findings from psychological science. 

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executiveoffice@cpa.ca

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Task Forces include:

1. Internship Supply and Demand Task Force
2. End of Life Task Force
3. Legalization of Marijuana Task Force
4. Title for Non-Registered Psychologists Task Force
5. Responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report Task Force (Indigenous Task Force)
6. Intervention Assessment Task Force (Progress Monitoring Task Force)
7. Criminal Justice Section Task Forces
8. Fitness to Stand Trial Task Force
9. Not Criminally Responsible Force
10. Prevention of Opioid Abuse Task Force

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executiveoffice@cpa.ca