Vision Statement: ASPPB is committed to serving member jurisdictions by promoting excellence in regulation and advancing public protection. to accomplish this goal, ASPPB undertakes the following activities: 1. Offering exemplary examination and credentialing programs; 2. Providing state of the art programs and services to all of our stakeholders; 3. Serving as the source for the most current and accurate information about the regulation of psychologists; and 4. Advocating for the critical consumer protection perspective in the on-going development of the profession.

ASPPB 2009—2010 Board of Directors: (Officers are elected and begin serving in October)
President: Jack B. Schaffer, Ph.D., ABPP; President-Elect: Joseph S. Rallo, Ph.D.; Past President: Emil R. Rodolfa, Ph.D.; Secretary-Treasurer: Martha N. Storie, B.S.; Members-At-Large: Carol Webb, Ph.D., ABPP; Jacqueline B. Horn, Ph.D. and Fred Millán, Ph.D., ABPP.

Membership: ASPPB’s member organizations include all of the provincial and state psychology regulatory boards in Canada and the United States as well as the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. resulting in 64 active member jurisdictions. ASPPB also has a number of individual members.  

www.asppb.net: We have been renovating the ASPPB website with the goal of making it more user-friendly and providing better licensure information for all interested parties, including faculty and students.  A student section of the website has been developed with assistance from a liaison from APAGS. A faculty section of the website has also been developed that contains resources to aid faculty and other trainers in preparing their students/interns/trainees for licensure. The Handbook of Licensure Certification Requirements (which provides a short synopsis of major aspects of the licensing requirements in each ASPPB member jurisdiction) has been updated and expanded.

ASPPB Practicum Task Force: An ASPPB task force, with input from training directors and numerous training organizations and reviewers, developed model language to define and regulate pre-doctoral supervised experience used to qualify for licensure. "The ASPPB Guidelines for Practicum Experience" was approved by the ASPPB Board of Directors and is available on our website at www.asppb.net.  The ASPPB Board took this action because several jurisdictions implemented a sequence of training model that no longer requires completion of a postdoctoral year of supervised experience for licensure, although ASPPB has expressed reservations about this change because there is a lack of commonly accepted definitions of what constitutes a qualified practicum experience.

EPPP Scores for Doctoral Programs: ASPPB is making available a re-analysis of EPPP scores for doctoral programs, and in the future internship programs, so that programs can access scores for their graduates by year for self-studies and annual reports.  There will be a nominal fee for this service.  Scores will not be reported for years with less than three (3) candidates for privacy reasons.  ASPPB is considering how to provide data in additional formats that would allow programs and prospective students to evaluate the EPPP performance of graduates.

Mobility Initiatives: To date, there are 39 jurisdictions that accept the Certificate of Professional Qualification (CPQ) for licensure, an additional 7 are in the process of accepting the CPQ in the near future, and 9 waive at least one educational or experiential requirement for licensure.  The ASPPB Mobility Committee has developed a credential, the Interjurisdictional Practice Certificate (IPC), to facilitate temporary practice in jurisdictions for psychologists involved in short term practice, such as organizational or other consulting, conducting forensic assessments or disaster relief. At least four (4) jurisdictions currently recognized the IPC for short-term practice and many more are moving towards adopting this standard.  ASPPB has began accepting applications from individual psychologists for the IPC in September, 2008. 

Credentials Bank: A Verification and Storage Program: The ASPPB Credentials Bank service provides primary source verification of licensure-related materials offered prior to storing the documents in the ASPPB Credentials Bank. The Credentials Bank/Verification Program is available for students, interns, applicants for licensure, licensed psychologists, and CPQ and IPC holders.   The tragedies of the recent natural disasters are a dramatic reminder of the need for archival resources for psychologists.  For $25 per year, students/interns and post docs can bank their licensure-related information and then obtain a CPQ when eligible at no additional application cost.

Meetings: Our 2009 annual meeting was held October 28-November 1 in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.  The theme was Bridging the Divide across Jurisdictions with program presentations on regulation consistency in areas of supervised professional experience, CE, and discipline.  Our 2010 midyear meeting will be held April 22-25 in Seattle.  The conference theme will be Psychology Unplugged with presentations on the use of technology and its impact on regulation, telepsychology, and distance education.

ASPPB Sponsored EPPP Practice Tests: To assist candidates for licensure to prepare for the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) ASPPB offers two different practice tests. Information for these tests can be found at www.asppb.net.

On-Line EPPP Application: Licensure candidates seeking to take the EPPP will be directed to the ASPPB web site to apply for the EPPP after being qualified by the jurisdiction where they are seeking licensure. This new process will allow ASPPB to improve the collection of candidate demographic information, which may enhance understanding of the pipeline issues. The revised background questionnaire will include all ASPPB/National Register Designated programs in psychology (which also includes all APA and CPA accredited programs) and APPIC member internships and postdoctoral programs. 

Training Councils: The ASPPB Board of Directors believes in the importance of enhanced communication between training councils and ASPPB. As a result, ASPPB plans to continue to work closely with training councils and training programs by creating on-line resources for faculty, attending training council meetings as liaisons, and providing consultation that will help improve the sequence of training leading to licensure.

Exam Security Issues:  ASPPB continues to be vigilant to item harvesting and review course materials that claim to be based on “actual EPPP exams.” ASPPB has taken steps to reduce “brain-dumping” by some individuals who have recently taken the EPPP and post their recollected items on listservs.  ASPPB has also been working to correct common misunderstandings about the EPPP, for example, that half or more of first time test takers fail, and that ASPPB sponsors or receives remuneration from commercial test prep companies. 

Practice Analysis: ASPPB is nearing completion of a new practice analysis, designed to keep current thecontent validity of the EPPP. The current analysis will also focus on the identification and validation of underlying professional competencies and the identification of assessment methods to best measure them.