Resources for Early Career Psychologists

• Div. 37 Diane J. Willis Early Career Award

• Resource Guides for Early Career Psychologists (PDF, 211KB)

• PsycCareers

• Indeed

• Career Builder

• Psychology Jobs

• Information about referrals – use other email lists or monitor the ECP yahoo group

• A Guidebook for Starting and Operating an Independent Practice in Psychology (PDF, 257KB)

• The Business of Psychology: Insurance Panels: To Join or Not to Join (PDF, 204KB)

• How to Get On Insurance Panels as a Preferred Provider – Part 1

• APA's Resources for ECPs starting to practice

• So you landed a job – What's next? Advice  for  early career psychologists  from  early career psychologists

• Malpractice Insurance 101: Claims-made vs. occurrence coverage

• Malpractice & Licensing Pitfalls for Therapists: A Defense Attorney's List

• APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology

DiLillo, D., DeGue, S., Cohen, L. M., & Morgan, R. D. (2006). The path to licensure for academic psychologists: How tough is the road? (PDF, 95KB) ) Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 5, 567-586.

You can subscribe to the Div. 37’s ECP resource sharing database by sending an email. The database includes information about other Div. 37 ECPs, sample copies of course syllabi, and other documents relevant to ECPs.

• Negotiating Skills to Help You Thrive in Your Next Job (PDF, 415KB)
  Kate Brown, PhD, past chair of APA's Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice, share slides for a skill-based way to approach salary negotiation, regardless of the job.

• Negotiating a Faculty Job Offer
  APA's Center for Learning and Career Development presents an interactive online program on five critical steps on negotiating a job offer to work as a professor.

• How to Get The Salary Package You Really Need
  The APA's Monitor on Psychology has an article on salary negotiation for people in academia.

• Slate's Negotiation Academy
  Slate Magazine has a 10-part podcast on salary negotiation for people in all kinds of fields.

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• American Psychological Association (APA)

• American Public Health Association (APHA)

• Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
  

• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

• Whole workplace health

• Tips from Practitioners on Finding Work-Life Balance

• Work-Life Booklets from the Psychology Foundation of Canada

• Work-life balance as an assistant professor from UCLA

The Advocate (the division's newsletter) includes an ECP corner and an ECP advice column

• Opportunities for leadership development, mentoring and networking.

• Social events at APA Convention.

• Access to professional development resources.

• Christy Olezeski (chair), Yale University School of Medicine

• Elizabeth Ahern, University of Cambridge

• Cheryl Arndt, KidsPeace

• Sarah Cleary, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

• Angelique Day, University of Washington

• Kristi Geissler, Oceanside School District

• Helen Masland Milojevich, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Sonia Rubens, Santa Clara University

• Rebecca Kanine, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

• Jennifer Lovell, Cal State Monterey Bay

To join the ECP email list or if you have questions or concerns about the ECP committee, please contact Christy Olezeski.