dear prospective member
Welcome. The transition from graduate student to successful practitioner is not always an easy one. Graduate school provides excellent didactic and clinical/counseling training, but often does not provide graduate students and psychologists new to the profession with all the tools, resources, guidance, and support they need to navigate from student to professional.
Psychologists in Independent Practice, the American Psychological Association’s division of independent practitioners, is that resource. Membership in Division 42 complements your academic and clinical training by providing you with the resources needed to be a successful practicing psychologist.
Division 42 exists to provide a home for practitioners within APA. The Division’s primary focus is on keeping the practitioner’s interests and needs represented in every facet within APA governance. As we have evolved, we have realized the necessity of assisting students and early career psychologists, in not only making this transition, but in also surviving and thriving in the area of practice. To this end, Division 42 created a Student/Early Career Psychologist(S/ECP) affiliate category, a S/ECP Committee, and more recently, a S/ECP representative on the Division’s Board of Directors with voting privileges. In addition to what the division has always provided to practitioners, we now assist graduate students and early career psychologists with a variety of professional interests. Our current student members are enrolled in a variety of graduate programs throughout the country. Members of the division and early career affiliates practice in full or part-time clinical/counseling settings, provide organizational consulting to businesses, teach, and conduct research.
Division 42’s resources assist S/ECP affiliates through the completion of graduate school requirements, internship process, selecting a post-doc/job, getting licensed, and starting an
independent/group practice. Whether it is full-time or part-time, immediately upon licensure or after you’ve established yourself in another setting, APA’s Division 42 is here to help you succeed as a practicing psychologist.
We hope you take this opportunity to begin to shape not only your future as a psychologist,
but also help shape the future of psychology. You are the future of professional psychology
as a practice and we look forward to embracing the diversity of your interests, backgrounds, and specific areas of expertise.
Please accept our invitation to join Division 42’s Student/Early Career Psychologist affiliates by completing the enclosed membership application. Please forward your completed application with a check for your $21 annual dues payment (1/2 the dues paid by licensed psychologists). If you have any additional questions about membership in Division 42, please feel free to contact Monica Neel [email].
Sincerely,
Student/Early Career
Psychologists Committee
