As APA policy, the Model Act for State Licensure of Psychologists serves as a prototype for drafting state legislation regulating the practice of psychology. State legislatures are encouraged to use the language of this document and the policies that it espouses as the model for their own state licensure laws. Inevitably each state law will…

Announces the 2007 recipient of the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Practice of Psychology: Patricia M. Bricklin. A brief biography, highlighting areas of special focus in Bricklin's work, is provided.

There are those who recommend that professions such as psychology should follow medicine's lead with an equally forceful articulation and control over education, accreditation, and licensure. (Author/AM)

Asserts that legal restraints, such as those existing for other major professions, are needed in psychology. Outlines areas in psychological practice that might call for direct or indirect legal regulation. (GC)

Asserts the advantage of employing the PsyD degree both affirmatively, as a certificate of professional competence in psychology, and restrictively, to exclude inadequately trained people from the practice of professional psychology. (Author)

Global mobility for psychologists is rapidly improving because of an emerging consensus on recognition standards, the demand for cross-border mobility both internal and external to the profession, and the efforts of membership, credentialing, and regional organizations to promote mobility. In the United States, multiple credentialing organizations…

School psychology is concerned with applying psychology to education and is commensurate with goals of professional psychology education. It should be considered a doctoral profession or specialty, fulfilling emphasis on an educational orientation (rather than on mental health), and greater reliance on educational psychology. (Author/AOS)