Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology

Psychology has become a global profession. Professionals are now readily able to practice in geographic areas far from where they were trained. In practice, psychology has a social contract with the public to promote human and societal welfare, all the while responsible for the constant upkeep of systems that promote, maintain, and demand quality from health care professionals. This book examines the tools needed for evaluating the crucial components of quality assurance - education, training, accreditation and designation, licensing and credentialing, ethics, mobility, and continuing professional development - from an international perspective, with a specific focus on practices in the US, Canada, the European Union, Latin America and Australia. An international team of contributors synthesizes the progress made in implementing quality assurance mechanisms across the globe and offers diverse perspectives as to how the wider international community can promote quality and mobility.

- 1: Elizabeth M. Altmaier and Judy E. Hall: Introduction to International Quality Assurance for Psychology
- 2: Paul D. Nelson, Cynthia D. Belar, Catherine A. Grus, and Susan Zlotlow: Quality Assessment in Higher Education through Accreditation
- Cameo 1. ASPPB/National Register Designation Project
- Cameo 2. Accreditation in Canada
- 3: Sandra Greenberg and I. Leon Smith: Methods to Evaluate Competency and to Enhance Quality Assurance Internationally and Across Professions
- 4: Pierre L.J. Ritchie: Codes of Ethics, Conduct, and Standards as Vehicles of Accountability
- 5: Laura Hernandez-Guzman and Juan Jose Sanchez-Sosa: Latin America
- 5: Laura Hernandez-Guzman and Juan Jose Sanchez-Sosa: Practice and Regulation of Professional Psychology in Latin America
- 6: Ingrid Lunt: Professional Mobility and Quality Assurance within the European Union
- 7: Henk T. van der Molen and Klaas H. Visser: The Netherlands
- 7: Henk T. van der Molen and Klaas H. Visser: Accountability of Psychology in the Netherlands
- Cameo 5. Education and Training of a Professional Psychologist in South Africa: A Personal Perspective
- Cameo 6. Accountability in Professional Psychology: The Improvement in Mainland China
- 9: George Stricker: Quality Assurance in Professional Psychology Education
- 10: Merry Bullock and Judy E. Hall: The Promotion of International Mobility
- 11: George Hurley: Synthesis and Concluding Comments