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Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology
Author(s): Judy E. Hall (Author), Elizabeth Altmaier (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: April 23, 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 272 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195306082
- ISBN-13: 9780195306088
Book Description
Psychology has become a global profession. Professionals are now readily able to practice in geographic areas far from where they were trained. In practice, psychology has a social contract with the public to promote human and societal welfare, all the while responsible for the constant upkeep of systems that promote, maintain, and demand quality from health care professionals. In Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology, editors Judy E. Hall and Elizabeth M. Altmaier examine the tools needed for evaluating the crucial components of quality assurance- education, training, accreditation and designation, licensing and credentialing, ethics, mobility, and continuing professional development- from an international perspective, with a specific focus on practices in the United States, Canada, the European Union, Latin America, Australia, and The Netherlands and vignettes on the United Kingdom, China and South Africa. An international team of contributors synthesizes the progress made in implementing quality assurance mechanisms across the globe and offers diverse perspectives as to how the wider international community can promote quality and mobility. With an eye toward the future of psychology as well as on the systems that will support it, Global Promise is required reading for universities, regulatory bodies, professional associations, professionals and students.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Efforts to promote quality assurance internationally require a common knowledge of the status of psychology. Recent books on international psychology, including professional psychology, help promote this understanding. A base of common knowledge may lead to the development of shared policies that in turn may lead to shared practices. Global Promise makes an important contribution to these efforts.”–PsycCritiques
About the Author
Judy Hall is Executive Officer at the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology in Washington, DC. Elizabeth Altmaier is a Professor, Psychological and Quantitative Foundations at the College of Education at the University of Iowa.
