Early Career Resources
The resources below are designed to provide guidance and opportunities for Early Career School Psychologists—spanning information on certification and licensure, finding jobs, starting a successful career, and so forth. In addition, we recommend visiting APA’s early career development website.
To contact the Division 16 Early Career Workgroup Board, please email D16ECP@gmail.com.
Those interested in submitting a link for potential inclusion on this webpage may do so here.
Certification/Licensure
- American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP)
- Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB)
- American Psychological Association (APA) Accredited Internship Programs
- Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers
- National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
Detailed information on school-based credentialing requirements by state can be found by visiting NASP’s website, here.
Resources to Begin and Thrive in an Academic Career
- Pathways to academic careers for school psychologists
- So you want to be a professor? Perspectives on the academic job search process (Part 1)
- So you want to be a professor? (Part 2)
- So you landed a job – What’s next? Advice for early career psychologists from early career psychologists
- Work-life balance in academic careers
- Surviving and Thriving in Academia: A Guide for Members of Marginalized Groups
- National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity
- Society for the Study of School Psychology Early Career Forum
Resources for Those Pursuing a Private Practice
Job Boards
- Division 16’s job board
- APA career search website: PsycCareers
- NASP career search website: Career Center
- Society for the Study of School Psychology’s Early Career Forum
- Chronicle Vitae
- Inside Higher Ed’s job board
- HigherEdJobs.com
The School Psychologist, Early Career Corner
As part of our efforts, the Early Career Workgroup publishes a column in each edition of The School Psychologist, Division 16’s official newsletter. This column focuses on the needs of ECPs within the Division. Members of the workgroup have authored several articles of The School Psychologist to date:
- Establishing School-University Partnerships and Collaborations between Practitioners and Researchers (Fall 2023)
- Impostor Syndrome in School Psychology: Analyzing and Addressing Root Causes (Summer 2023)
- Development of Professional Identity as School Psychologist (Spring 2023)
- Professional Development in Quantitative Methods (Summer 2022)
- Using Psychological First Aid to Support Graduate Student Mental Health (Summer 2022)
- Advocacy in School Psychology: Considerations for Early Career School Psychologists (Spring 2021)
- Transitioning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of New Faculty and Practitioners (Fall 2020)
- Early Career Mentoring: The Need for an Intersectional Perspective (Spring 2020)
- Teaching for Early Career School Psychologists (Fall 2019)
Those with suggestions for future topics may contact Jackie Cammerer (jacqueline.cammerer@uconn.edu
Funding & Awards for ECPs
These funding opportunities are specifically designed for early career psychologists. Some of these opportunities provide travel funding to specific conferences while others provide funds for research activities.
- Division 16’s Lightner Witmer Award
- American Psychological Association Early Career Funding Opportunities
- Society for the Study of School Psychology Early Career Research Awards
- Society of the Study of School Psychology Research Collaboration Conference
- National Association for School Psychologists’ Paul H. Henkin Memorial Travel Scholarship Award
- Trainers of School Psychologists Junior Faculty Development Award
- Institute of Education Sciences Early Career Development Grants
- National Institutes of Health Early Career Investigator Policies
Other Recommendations
- What you need to know to get licensed
- Creating an Independent Developmental Plan for Your Post-Doc
- DiLillo, D., DeGue, S., Cohen, L. M., & Morgan, R. D. (2006).The path to licensure for academic psychologists: How tough is the road? Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 5, 567-586.
- Vaughn, T. J. (Ed.). (2006). Psychology Licensure and Certification: What Students Need to Know. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
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