Jude Bergkamp, Co-Chair and core faculty in Applied Psychology and Counseling and Family Therapy at Antioch University Seattle, recently presented at the 50th Annual National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, where he is currently serving as Past-President. His presentation reviewed an important new competency-training model for health service psychology—a culmination of five years of work by the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on Doctoral Competencies in Health Service Psychology.
Competencies help define health service psychology and clarify distinctions between tiers of practice at the master’s and doctoral levels. Bergkamp’s session introduced a new model of HSP competencies developed by the APA task force and recently published in Training and Education in Professional Psychology. Two hallmarks of the model are its simultaneous-process framework and its iterative competency domains. Following the overview, Bergkamp led a discussion on practical applications, inviting participants to consider how the model could be adapted within their own professional psychology programs.
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