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National Register
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Applying for Licensure
About the
National Register
A Health Service Provider in Psychology is defined
as a psychologist, certified/licensed at the independent practice level
in his/her state, who is duly trained and experienced in the delivery of
direct, preventative, assessment and therapeutic intervention services
to individuals whose growth, adjustment, or functioning is actually
impaired or is demonstrably at high risk of impairment (1974).
National Register Vision:
To improve the health of a diverse and global community.
National Register Mission:
The National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology promotes
credentialed psychologists to the public, provides distinction and value
to its Registrants, guides psychology students toward credentialing, and
enhances psychologists' contributions to integrated healthcare.
Mission-Driven Activities:
The National Register (NR) is a nonprofit organization with more than 30
years of experience serving the public, psychologists, and the
healthcare community. We are the largest and most successful
credentialing organization in psychology.
To realize our goal of
promoting credentialed psychologists to the public, we:
- credential
doctoral-level psychologists who meet stringent requirements for
education, internship, and experience as healthcare professionals;
- offer the free
Find a Psychologist database to connect informed consumers with
health-service psychologists;
- disseminate
standards for evaluating the education and training of licensed
psychologists;
- advocate for
psychology at the state and federal levels;
- provide
regulators with the only National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA)
deemed source of credentials verification in the profession;
- encourage newly
licensed psychologists to become credentialed healthcare providers;
- award annual
credentialing scholarships to Early Career Psychologists (ECPs) in
collaboration with APA Committee on ECPs; and
- monitor
the ethical conduct of psychologists to ensure integrity in the
profession and quality of patient care.
To realize our goal of
providing distinction and value to its Registrants, we:
- expedite
licensure mobility for psychologists within the 41 jurisdictions in
the US and Canada now approving the NR;
- offer free
continuing education (CE) programs and credits for Registrants (The
NR is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor
continuing education for psychologists. The NR maintains
responsibility for this program and its content);
- publish The
Register Report featuring articles on practice, ethics, and emerging
proficiencies;
- verify
psychologists' credentials to healthcare organizations;
- recognize
innovative services of psychologists through the annual Hall Award
and Wellner Award;
- confer
professional recognition and value to health-service psychologists
through NR distinction; and
- advocate for
the services and scope of practice of psychologists as distinct from
other health care professionals.
To realize our goal of
guiding psychology students toward credentialing, we:
- offer the
National Psychologist Trainee Register as the entry point for
psychology credentialing;
- encourage
students to bank their credentials and chart their progress toward
licensure;
- inform students
of credentialing and licensure through NR publications and programs;
- identify
qualified doctoral programs in psychology through the Association of
State and Provincial Psychology Boards/National Register Designation
Project;
- distribute the
4-volume DVD series (A Legacy of Excellence) on education,
supervision, specialization, and credentialing for students and
faculty; and
- award
annual credentialing scholarships, in collaboration with American
Psychological Association Graduate Students, for doctoral students
to join and complete the National Psychologist Trainee Register.
To realize our goal of
enhancing psychologists' contributions to integrated healthcare, we:
- evaluate and
disseminate mechanisms for ensuring quality healthcare services by
psychologists and other healthcare professionals;
- advocate for
the continued integration of psychological services into primary
healthcare and the recognition of psychologists as primary
healthcare professionals;
- recognize that
health-service psychologists are indispensable in reducing the
global burden of disease;
- promote the
effectiveness of health-service psychologists in preventing and
managing chronic illnesses;
- support
emerging practice areas for psychologists, including prescriptive
authority; and
- designate
postdoctoral psychopharmacology programs in collaboration with the
Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.
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