Revised Competency Benchmarks
Why the Change?
Implementation is the next challenge in moving to a culture of competence
Programs using the 2009 version of the Competency Benchmarks have expressed a strong preference for a more streamlined document
The Competency Benchmarks needed to be transformed into a tool that would preserve its essential content, but would be feasible for regular use by education and training programs.
Who Worked On This?
A working group comprised of individuals who were all part of the 2006 benchmarks meeting, with the addition of a (then) postdoctoral fellow. Their goal was to find ways to make the competency benchmarks document easier to implement for programs.
What Is New?
The 15 competencies were organized into 6 overarching clusters (DOC, 34KB) to simplify application
Redundancy among items was reduced and complete coverage of the identified competencies assured; language was revised for consistency.
The document was reviewed and modified to ensure expectations were consistent across the sequence of training and within developmental level.
The specific examples (behavioral anchors) were moved to an appendix (DOC, 315KB) that will be easily accessible when raters (see the Benchmarks Evaluation System) need to refer to examples for greater clarification.
This project gratefully acknowledges the financial support of APA and the ASPPB foundation.
