The American Psychological Association has officially committed to reinstating the proficiency certificate for addiction treatment. Your collective participation ensured that our professional standards remain protected and accessible. We will continue to monitor the development of these new credentialing plans to ensure they meet the needs of all practitioners.
June 19, 2013
Final supporters
Healthcare reform will allow for more treatment of individuals with problems related to addiction. As such, it is vital that licensed psychologists maintain useful and fairly accessible credentials to support their work. To maintain the vitality to addiction psychology more broadly, fair access to credentials supporting such work is also vital to future psychologists in addiction - those in training now and recently licensed.
To this end, we the undersigned, who are licensed psychologists and students intending to be licensed psychologists, respectfully request your action on the following items.
1. Immediately reinstate the certificate for the recognition of the Proficiency in the Psychological Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders;
2. Work collaboratively with the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50) to develop a long term plan to maintain the utility of the certificate for licensed psychologists;
3. Work collaborative with all current and future licensed psychologists to insure access to an appropriate credential for psychologists in addiction so that they are not at risk for having their teaching, training, and clinical work inappropriately impinged upon by standards of other professional groups;
4. Work collaboratively with the APA Council to insure that no certificate for proficiency is ever again retired without thorough discussion by all stakeholders.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
April 7, 2013
April 6, 2013
The momentum behind this petition continues to build as we approach two hundred and fifty signatures. Please direct others to this page now to ensure the American Psychological Association sees the full scope of our professional concern.
Reached 100 supporters
March 28, 2013
March 26, 2013
The petition is approaching one hundred signatures and this momentum is encouraging for our advocacy efforts. Please help us reach this initial milestone by inviting your professional colleagues to review the proposed changes.
6 Comments
I worked way too hard for my training to have it devalued like this. please fix it.
Addiction treatment is already hard enough. We need these credentials to actually be recognized so we can help people properly.
The APA really dropped the ball on this one. How are we supposed to compete with other fields if our own board keeps pulling the rug out from under us?
TOTAL NONSENSE. The patients suffer most when the professionals aren't supported. Get it together.
im a student and this is actually really scary for my future career. dont take this away from us.
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The American Psychological Association has officially committed to reinstating the proficiency certificate for addiction treatment. Your collective participation ensured that our professional standards remain protected and accessible. We will continue to monitor the development of these new credentialing plans to ensure they meet the needs of all practitioners.
June 19, 2013
Final supporters
Healthcare reform will allow for more treatment of individuals with problems related to addiction. As such, it is vital that licensed psychologists maintain useful and fairly accessible credentials to support their work. To maintain the vitality to addiction psychology more broadly, fair access to credentials supporting such work is also vital to future psychologists in addiction - those in training now and recently licensed.
To this end, we the undersigned, who are licensed psychologists and students intending to be licensed psychologists, respectfully request your action on the following items.
1. Immediately reinstate the certificate for the recognition of the Proficiency in the Psychological Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders;
2. Work collaboratively with the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50) to develop a long term plan to maintain the utility of the certificate for licensed psychologists;
3. Work collaborative with all current and future licensed psychologists to insure access to an appropriate credential for psychologists in addiction so that they are not at risk for having their teaching, training, and clinical work inappropriately impinged upon by standards of other professional groups;
4. Work collaboratively with the APA Council to insure that no certificate for proficiency is ever again retired without thorough discussion by all stakeholders.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
April 7, 2013
April 6, 2013
The momentum behind this petition continues to build as we approach two hundred and fifty signatures. Please direct others to this page now to ensure the American Psychological Association sees the full scope of our professional concern.
Reached 100 supporters
March 28, 2013
March 26, 2013
The petition is approaching one hundred signatures and this momentum is encouraging for our advocacy efforts. Please help us reach this initial milestone by inviting your professional colleagues to review the proposed changes.
6 Comments
Listen to the experts and bring the certificate back. Division 50 knows what they are doing.
I worked way too hard for my training to have it devalued like this. please fix it.
Addiction treatment is already hard enough. We need these credentials to actually be recognized so we can help people properly.
The APA really dropped the ball on this one. How are we supposed to compete with other fields if our own board keeps pulling the rug out from under us?
TOTAL NONSENSE. The patients suffer most when the professionals aren't supported. Get it together.
im a student and this is actually really scary for my future career. dont take this away from us.
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Listen to the experts and bring the certificate back. Division 50 knows what they are doing.