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EPPP (Part 2-Skills)

Provider
Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB); delivered by Pearson VUE at Pearson Professional Centers
Format
Computer-based examination with several item types: multiple choice with single response, multiple choice with multiple response, scenarios (which can include animation with video/audio, an interview description, a test protocol or other data, with up to 5 questions per scenario), point and click, and drag and drop; may be taken only after the EPPP (Part 1-Knowledge) has been taken and passed; required only by licensing authorities that have adopted it; no French version
Exam questions
170 items: 130 scored and 40 unscored pretest items
Time limit
4 hours and 10 minutes for completion of the exam items
Passing score
Scaled score (200-800 scale); ASPPB recommended passing score of 500 for independent practice; scoring procedures are the same as for the EPPP (Part 1-Knowledge)
Exam fee
$450 USD exam fee per sitting plus $91.88 test sitting fee
Examination outline
  • Domain 1: Scientific orientation to practice: This competency domain involves an orientation to the knowledge developed through the science of psychology, including evidence-based practice, as well as a scientific method of looking at and responding to psychological problems. This general competency also involves the knowledge of the core areas of psychology, which will not be assessed by the new competency examination as they are currently well assessed by the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (Part 1-Knowledge). (6%)
    • Competency 1.1: Select relevant research literature and critically review its assumptions, conceptualization, methodology, interpretation, and generalizability
    • Behavioral exemplar 1.1.1 (competency 1.1): Critically evaluate and apply research findings to practice, with attention to its applicability and generalizability
    • Behavioral exemplar 1.1.2 (competency 1.1): Interpret and communicate empirical research results in a manner that is easily understood by non-scientific audiences
    • Competency 1.2: Acquire and disseminate knowledge in accord with scientific and ethical principles
    • Behavioral exemplar 1.2.1 (competency 1.2): Critically evaluate the literature relevant to professional practice
    • Behavioral exemplar 1.2.2 (competency 1.2): Share psychological knowledge with diverse groups (e.g., students, colleagues, clients, other professionals, the public) within professional settings in an unbiased manner
  • Domain 2: Assessment and intervention: This competency domain involves the provision of psychological assessment and intervention services to the public. (33%)
    • Competency 2.1: Apply knowledge of individual and diversity characteristics in assessment and diagnosis
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.1.1 (competency 2.1): Integrate knowledge of client characteristics in formulating assessment questions and understanding the reason for assessment
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.1.2 (competency 2.1): Select assessment methods and instruments based on psychometric properties, available normed data and/or criterion-referenced standards, and address any limitations in that selection
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.1.3 (competency 2.1): Ensure that professional opinions, recommendations, and case formulations adequately reflect consideration of client characteristics
    • Competency 2.2: Demonstrate effective interviewing skills
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.2.1 (competency 2.2): Adapt interview questions and behaviors in light of the characteristics of the interviewer and interviewee
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.2.2 (competency 2.2): Demonstrate flexible, empathic, and appropriate use of a broad range of interview techniques
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.2.3 (competency 2.2): Consider contextual information (e.g., reason for assessment, possible legal or forensic considerations) in conducting an interview
    • Competency 2.3: Administer and score instruments following current guidelines and research
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.3.1 (competency 2.3): Administer, score, and interpret a range of commonly used standardized assessment instruments
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.3.2 (competency 2.3): Adapt relevant guidelines in situations requiring non-standard administration, scoring, interpretation, or communication of assessment results
    • Competency 2.4: Interpret and synthesize results from multiple sources (e.g., multiple methods of assessment, written documentation, interviewees, collateral sources of information) following current guidelines and research
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.4.1 (competency 2.4): Interpret and integrate results from standardized tests and interviews following established guidelines and, as appropriate, multiple applicable norm sets
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.4.2 (competency 2.4): Identify the strengths and limitations of various types of assessment data
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.4.3 (competency 2.4): Reconcile or explain discrepancies between various sources of data and suggest alternative interpretations or explanations in light of any limitations of assessment instruments
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.4.4 (competency 2.4): Synthesize client-specific and scientific data with contextual factors to refine working hypotheses and develop conclusions and recommendations across a range of problems
    • Competency 2.5: Formulate and communicate diagnoses, recommendations, and/or professional opinions using relevant criteria and considering all assessment data
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.5.1 (competency 2.5): Formulate diagnoses using current taxonomies
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.5.2 (competency 2.5): Provide recommendations that incorporate client and contextual factors, including diagnoses
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.5.3 (competency 2.5): Communicate assessment results to clients, referral sources, and other professionals in an integrative manner
    • Competency 2.6: Select interventions for clients based on ongoing assessment and research evidence as well as contextual and diversity factors
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.6.1 (competency 2.6): Conceptualize intervention or treatment on the basis of evidence-based literature
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.6.2 (competency 2.6): Integrate client or stakeholder opinions, preferences, readiness for change, and potential for improvement into intervention plan
    • Competency 2.7: Apply and modify interventions based on ongoing assessment, research, contextual factors, client characteristics, and situational and environmental variables
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.7.1 (competency 2.7): Articulate evidence-based rationale for decisions, recommendations, and opinions to clients and others as indicated
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.7.2 (competency 2.7): Continually evaluate, modify, and assess the effectiveness of interventions, considering all relevant variables including biases and heuristics
    • Behavioral exemplar 2.7.3 (competency 2.7): Consult with qualified peers when facing the need to modify interventions in unfamiliar situations
  • Domain 3: Relational competence: This competency domain includes the ability to engage in meaningful and helpful professional relationships, as well as to understand and interact appropriately in a variety of diverse cultural and social contexts. It includes the two sub-categories of diversity and relationships. (16%)
    • Competency 3.1: Integrate and apply theory, research, professional guidelines, and personal understanding about social contexts to work effectively with diverse clients
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.1.1 (competency 3.1): Recognize, understand, and monitor the impact of one’s own identities in professional situations
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.1.2 (competency 3.1): Engage in respectful interactions with an awareness of individual, community, and organizational differences
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.1.3 (competency 3.1): Modify one’s own behavior based on self-reflection and an understanding of the impact of social, cultural, and organizational contexts
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.1.4 (competency 3.1): Follow professional guidelines and the scientific literature, when available, for providing professional services to diverse populations
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.1.5 (competency 3.1): Apply culturally appropriate skills, techniques, and behaviors with an appreciation of individual differences
    • Competency 3.2: Work effectively with individuals, families, groups, communities, and/or organizations
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.2.1 (competency 3.2): Use relational skills to engage, establish, and maintain working relationships with a range of clients
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.2.2 (competency 3.2): Communicate respectfully, showing empathy for others
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.2.3 (competency 3.2): Collaborate effectively in professional interactions
    • Competency 3.3: Demonstrate respect for others in all areas of professional practice
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.3.1 (competency 3.3): Consider differing viewpoints held by clients and others
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.3.2 (competency 3.3): Respond to differing viewpoints by seeking clarification to increase understanding before taking action
    • Competency 3.4: Identify and manage interpersonal conflict between self and others
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.4.1 (competency 3.4): Manage difficult and complex interpersonal relationships between self and others
    • Behavioral exemplar 3.4.2 (competency 3.4): Consult with peers to examine and address one’s own reactions and behavior when managing interpersonal conflict
  • Domain 4: Professionalism: This competency domain includes personal competence, the ability to identify and observe the boundaries of competence and reflective practice, the ability to be self-reflective and to receive feedback from others in relationship to one’s psychological activities. (11%)
    • Competency 4.1: Identify and observe boundaries of competence in all areas of professional practice
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.1.1 (competency 4.1): Identify limits of professional competence
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.1.2 (competency 4.1): Use knowledge of professional competence to guide scope of practice
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.1.3 (competency 4.1): Seek appropriate consultation when unsure about one’s competence and additional needs for training and professional development
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.1.4 (competency 4.1): Seek additional knowledge, training, and supervision when expanding scope of practice
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.1.5 (competency 4.1): Update knowledge and skills relevant to psychological practice on an ongoing basis
    • Competency 4.2: Critically evaluate one’s own professional practice through self-reflection and feedback from others
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.2.1 (competency 4.2): Engage in systematic and ongoing self-assessment and skill development
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.2.2 (competency 4.2): Accept responsibility for one’s own professional work and take appropriate corrective action if needed
    • Behavioral exemplar 4.2.3 (competency 4.2): Maintain awareness of personal factors that may impact professional functioning
  • Domain 5: Ethical practice: This competency domain involves the ability to apply both the ethical codes of the profession and the laws and regulations that govern the practice of psychology. (17%)
    • Competency 5.1: Demonstrate and promote values and behaviors commensurate with standards of practice, including ethics codes, laws, and regulations
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.1.1 (competency 5.1): Demonstrate integration and application of ethics codes and laws in all professional interactions
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.1.2 (competency 5.1): Communicate ethical and legal standards in professional interactions as necessary
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.1.3 (competency 5.1): Seek professional consultation on ethical or legal issues when needed
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.1.4 (competency 5.1): Discuss with peers or collaborators any ethical concerns with their behavior
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.1.5 (competency 5.1): Take appropriate steps to resolve conflicts between laws or rules and codes of ethics in one’s professional practice
    • Competency 5.2: Accurately represent and document work performed in professional practice and scholarship
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.2.1 (competency 5.2): Maintain complete and accurate records
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.2.2 (competency 5.2): Report research results accurately, avoiding personal biases
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.2.3 (competency 5.2): Ensure adequate and appropriate credit is given to trainees and collaborators in scholarship
    • Competency 5.3: Implement ethical practice management
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.3.1 (competency 5.3): Practice in a manner commensurate with laws, ethical standards, practice guidelines, and organizational constraints
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.3.2 (competency 5.3): Manage billing practices in an ethical manner
    • Competency 5.4: Establish and maintain a process that promotes ethical decision-making
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.4.1 (competency 5.4): Systematically identify the ethical and legal issues and conflicts that occur in professional practice
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.4.2 (competency 5.4): Consult with peers to aid in ethical decision-making when needed
    • Behavioral exemplar 5.4.3 (competency 5.4): Proactively address identified ethical issues
  • Domain 6: Collaboration, consultation and supervision: This competency domain involves the ability to understand and work with individuals within broader systems and includes the skills to operate effectively and ethically within organizational structures, to collaborate with others in a cooperative, multidisciplinary manner and to effectively and ethically provide supervision to students, trainees and other professionals. (17%)
    • Competency 6.1: Work effectively within organizations and systems
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.1.1 (competency 6.1): Recognize the organizational and systemic factors that affect delivery of psychological services
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.1.2 (competency 6.1): Utilize knowledge of organizations and systems to optimize delivery of psychological services
    • Competency 6.2: Demonstrate interdisciplinary collaborations
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.2.1 (competency 6.2): Collaborate with various professionals to meet client goals
    • Competency 6.3: Consult and collaborate within and across professions
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.3.1 (competency 6.3): Tailor consultation requests and provision of information based on knowledge of others’ professional needs and viewpoints
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.3.2 (competency 6.3): Use evidence-based psychological theories, decision-making strategies, and interventions when consulting
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.3.3 (competency 6.3): Continually evaluate, modify, and assess the effectiveness of consultation, considering all relevant variables
    • Competency 6.4: Evaluate service or program effectiveness across a variety of contexts
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.4.1 (competency 6.4): Develop plans for evaluating service or program effectiveness
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.4.2 (competency 6.4): Assess outcome effectiveness in an ongoing way
    • Competency 6.5: Ensure supervisee compliance with policies and procedures of the setting, the profession, and the jurisdiction
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.5.1 (competency 6.5): Provide a supervision plan that details the supervisory relationship and the policies and procedures of supervision, including procedures to manage high-risk situations
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.5.2 (competency 6.5): Identify responsibilities of supervisees towards clients, including informed consent and supervisory status
    • Competency 6.6: Monitor, evaluate, and accurately and sensitively communicate supervisee performance to the supervisee, the organization, and the jurisdiction as needed
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.6.1 (competency 6.6): Regularly provide behaviorally anchored feedback about supervisee strengths and areas that need further development
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.6.2 (competency 6.6): Assure that supervisees who are trainees practice within the scope of supervisor’s competence and license
    • Competency 6.7: Create and maintain a supportive environment in which effective supervision occurs for trainees and other professionals being supervised
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.7.1 (competency 6.7): Attend to the interpersonal process between supervisor and supervisees
    • Behavioral exemplar 6.7.2 (competency 6.7): Monitor possible multiple roles or conflicts of interest, and work toward resolution, if needed
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