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Division 17: Professional Practice

Welcome to Division 17!

Professional Psychology places a strong emphasis upon evidence-based practice and covers a wide range of matters of central interest to practicing psychologists. These include accreditation, registration, quality and standards, supervision and mentoring, ethics, service delivery, workplace conditions, advertising standards, technological orientation, and political orientation and advocacy.

Division 17 Board Members

President: Susan McDaniel

President-Elect: Tim Carey

Immediate Past-President: Robyn Vines

Past-President: James Bray

ECP 2024 PhotoEuropean Congress of Psychology (ECP), Brighton, UK, July, 2024

ICAP 2018 Photo International Congress of Psychology (ICAP), Montreal, Canada, June, 2018

ECP 2015 Photo European Congress of Psychology (ECP), Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2015

Resources

A Systemic Approach to Behavioral Healthcare Integration: Context Matters (Fundamentals of Clinical Practice With Couples and Families Series) 1st Edition

by Dr. Nancy Breen Ruddy PhD (Author), Dr. Susan H. McDaniel Ph.D (Author)

This book provides clinicians, consultants, and healthcare administrators with a roadmap to establishing a systemic, patient-centered, family-oriented behavioral health service that is integrated into a healthcare setting.
Healthcare that goes beyond biomedical issues to address our whole biopsychosocial selves, produces better outcomes for patients and families. Integrating behavioral health into medical settings requires an understanding of the interplay of multiple systemic layers in American healthcare. The existing literature on integration largely fails to address the "big picture" of integrated services and systems, including operations, clinical processes, and financial sustainability elements.

A Systemic Approach to Behavioral Healthcare Integration summarizes the literature on the impact of integrating behavioral health care into medical settings, on the role of families in health maintenance and chronic disease management, and on team science and applying family systems theory/relational science to the teams that are now essential to healthcare.