Awards & Grants for ECPs
Licensure and Job Search
Work-Life Balance
Practice
Teaching
Research
Leadership & Service
Miscellany

Awards & Grants for ECPs

• The Fritz and Linn Kuder Early Career Scientist/Practitioner Award

Division 17 awards an ECP for outstanding contributions to the science and practice of counseling psychology within 10 years after degree.

• Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology

APA Committee on Scientific Awards honors scientists within 9 years after degree, in 10 different areas of research.

• Frank J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Prize on Understanding the Human Mind

American Psychological Foundation awards this prize to support research that advances a materialistic understanding of the mind.

Licensure

• State Licensure Information
• Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB)
• Association for Advanced Training in Behavioral Sciences (AATBS)
• Advocating for Change in Licensure Laws
• Article
• Presentation
• Academic Licensing Article
• License to Move Article

Job Search

• PsycCareers
• Academic Careers
• Practitioner's Opportunities in a Difficult Economy
• Psychology's Growth Careers
• Non-Traditional Careers

Work/Life Balance & Financial Planning

• Resource Guides for Early Career Psychologists: Academia, Research, Parenting and Life Issues
• Work/Life Balance Article and Handouts
• APA Salary Survey
• Financial Strategies for Psychology Doctorates
• Debt Management

Practice

• APA Practice Central: The Business of Practice
• Practice Guidelines
• State and Provincial Psychological Associations
• Books for Psychotherapists
  How Psychotherapists Develop, Orlinsky & Ronnestad
  How to Survive and Thrive as a Therapist, Pope & Vasquez

Teaching

• Resources for Educators
• Surviving and Thriving in Academia
• Preparing Future Faculty
• The Compleat Academic, Darley, Zanna, & Roediger

Research

• Funding Sources
• NIH Grant Cycle
• National Institutes of Health Grants
• Keys for Tapping NIH Funding
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Science Foundation Grants
• Recent Funding Opportunities
• Research and Publishing
• Books on Writing
• How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing, Silvia
• How Writers Journey to Comfort and Fluency: A Psychological Adventure, Boice

Leadership & Service

• Division 17 Governance
• APA Governance
• Building Bridges: Opportunities for Learning, Networking, and Leadership
• Receiving Mentoring as an ECP
• Division 17 Sections
• Section for the Advancement of Women (SAW)
• Animal Human Interaction: Research and Practice
• Counseling Health Psychology
• Section on Ethnic and Racial Diversity (SERD)
• Independent Practice
• International Section of Counseling Psychology (ICP)
• Section for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (SLGBTI)
• Section on Positive Psychology
• Prevention Section
• Promotion of Psychotherapy Science
• Supervision and Training
• College and University Counseling Centers
• Society for Vocational Psychology
• Division 17 Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Adoption Research and Practice
• Couples and Families
• Faculty in Four-Year Colleges
• Hypnosis
• Men, Masculinity, and Men's Studies
• Older Adults and Aging
• Organizational Counseling Psychology
• Religious and Spiritual Issues in Counseling Psychology
• Rural Practice and Scholarship

Miscellany

• APA Committee on Early Career Psychologists
• Become a Reviewer for APA Journals
• Preparing to Be Interviewed by the Media? Tips for Psychologists
• APA Style Page