The Graduate Program in Clinical Psychological Science at Indiana is committed to: training clinical psychologists who are prepared to make significant contributions to basic research on mental illness and well-being; to the development, evaluation, delivery, and dissemination of new assessments and interventions; and ultimately to reducing the burden of mental illness and related problems in living.

Our program is PCSAS accredited until 2025 and we are in the process of renewing our PCSAS accreditation for another ten years (until 2035). We are deeply committed to ongoing PCSAS accreditation, as the goals and values of the organization are consistent with our training model. The program is also APA accredited and we are in the process of renewing our APA accreditation for another ten years as well. Our program remains APA accredited during this renewal process. However, we have noted both a shift over time in curricular and other requirements associated with APA accreditation and significant changes in knowledge and skills necessary for students to thrive professionally. Therefore, we are uncertain how well APA’s future requirements will align with the longstanding clinical science training goals of our program and the needs of graduates who will have optimal preparation for addressing pressing challenges in clinical psychology. For these reasons, after renewing our APA accreditation in 2025, we may or may not seek subsequent accreditation from APA after 2035 while maintaining our PCSAS accreditation indefinitely.

Discussion of this issue would include students in our program and would in no way represent a departure from our core mission, stated above, and our guiding values of collaboration, mutual respect, fairness, diversity, and the highest ethical standards. We will not make any changes that would limit our students’ training opportunities or threaten the ability of our graduates to have the sorts of successful careers they have long enjoyed (e.g., as university professors, college teachers, public policy analysts, faculty in medical centers and research institutes, licensed clinical psychologists, and administrators/directors of a variety of community agencies/organizations).

Finally, we are pleased to note that other leading clinical psychology doctoral training programs, including University of California-Berkeley, UCLA, University of Illinois, Stony Brook University, University of Delaware, University at Buffalo, University of Wisconsin, University of South Florida, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Arizona, University of Pennsylvania, Emory University, and University of Washington have expressed very similar commitments to clinical psychological science training and plans regarding future accreditation.