Education & Standards Committee Update

Education & Standards Committee Update

By Meghan Miller, PhD
Member-at-Large: Education & Standards

I’m happy to provide the SCCAP membership my inaugural update as your Member at Large for Education and Standards! In this role, I hope to build upon the Professional Development webinar series and other CE programs, support SCCAP’s student and early career award programs, and represent SCCAP’s interests and members in the development of training guidelines for clinical child and adolescent psychology as a specialty discipline.

Members of SCCAP have been working tirelessly over the last year to help develop training guidelines for clinical child and adolescent psychology as part of the Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology Training Council’s (CCaPPTC) Training Guidelines Steering Committee and Task Force. Thanks in particular to SCCAP Education and Standards committee member Dr. Sunny Bai for her work on this important project, as well as all other SCCAP members who are involved. We will be providing updates on our progress in future newsletters and will be soliciting input from the SCCAP membership along the way.

We’ve also been busy reviewing an impressive bunch of applications for the Routh Dissertation Grant, which provides support for student research that shows promise to add significantly to the clinical child and adolescent psychology literature. Thank you to the reviewers who volunteered their time to carefully evaluate these applications, including Dr. Ed Christophersen, Dr. Michelle Rozenman, Dr. Joaquin Borrego, Dr. Sunny Bai, and Dr. Emily Ricketts.

Finally, we have an exciting webinar series in the works for this year. Thanks to all who attended  the webinars so far. First, we had the President’s Webinar: When the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree: Treating Children with ADHD When the Parent Has ADHD Too by Andrea Chronis Tuscano, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, College Park). It was a great way to kick off the series! Next, Miya Barnett, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara) gave an inspiring talk titled “How Psychologists Can Partner with Lay Health Workers to Promote Equity in Children’s Mental Health” on March 18th. We have two more webinars scheduled for this spring and early summer. We look forward to seeing you there—keep an eye out on your inbox for more details soon!

Upcoming Webinars:

• May 2024: Alayna Park, Ph.D. (University of Oregon and Ballmer Institute; details TBD)
• June 12, 2024, 1-2pm EST: Henry Willis, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, College Park)