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Be Careful What You Wish For: An Insider's Perspective on Licensure of I-O Psychologists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2017

Lorin M. Mueller  and
Alexander Alonso
Lorin M. Mueller*
Affiliation:
Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy
Alexander Alonso
Affiliation:
Society for Human Resource Management
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Lorin Mueller, c/o FSBPT, 124 S. West St., Alexandria, VA 22314. E-mail: lmueller@fsbpt.org
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At first blush, licensing industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists seems like a worthy pursuit. The work we do is important, can affect many lives for better or worse, and (we believe) requires a high level of education, training, and competence. Given a deeper look, however, we believe that the Licensure of Consulting and I-O Psychologists (LCIOP) Joint Task Force (2017) review overestimated the benefits of licensure, which are substantially outweighed by the practical challenges associated with a licensure program. Our response to the LCIOP represents two perspectives that can inform the feasibility of such an undertaking: a view from the inside of a federation of regulatory boards and a view from the world of certification as an alternative approach for ensuring quality in a diverse, complex profession.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 207 - 214
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2017 

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