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Licensing of I-O Psychologists: Some Potentially Lethal Features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2017

John P. Campbell
John P. Campbell*
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Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to John P. Campbell, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 E. River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail: campb006@umn.edu
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The focal article (LCIOP Joint Task Force, 2017) is a painstakingly thorough discussion of licensing issues regarding I-O psychology as they have evolved over the last 40–50 years. There is also a very large literature produced by Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) members, and cited in the focal article, that discusses many of these issues in some detail (e.g., Campbell, Levy, Murphy, Schmitt, & Weiss, 2009). The focal article makes a very useful distinction between health service providers (HSP) and general applied psychologists (GAP). The position of SIOP for some time has been that licensure should be required for the former, but not for the latter, although a path to licensure should be provided for those who need it. I would certainly agree. Also, the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP) is much more infused with applied clinical psychology than is SIOP. Consequently, the licensing needs of most SIOP members and most SCP members are most likely not quite the same.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 190 - 193
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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