Boards and Committees

• Council Leadership Team
  The team manages the work of council, determines the process for council to select topics for strategic issue discussions and provides recommendations on agenda items that council would consider.

Standing boards and committees are established by the APA Bylaws and report to APA's Council of Representatives through the Board of Directors. They cannot be modified or sunset without a vote of membership.

• Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest

• Board of Convention Affairs

• Board of Educational Affairs

• Board of Professional Affairs

• Board of Scientific Affairs

• Election Committee

• Ethics Committee

• Finance Committee

• Membership Board

• Policy and Planning Board

• Publications and Communications Board

Continuing committees are established by the Council of Representatives and are described in the Association Rules. They may be modified or sunset by a vote of council.

• Advocating Coordinating Committee

• Agenda Planning Group

• APA Fellows Committee

• Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Subspecialties in Professional Psychology

• Commission on Accreditation

• Committee for the Advancement of General Applied Psychology

• Committee for the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students

• Committee of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools

• Committee on Aging

• Committee on Animal Research and Ethics

• Committee on Associate and Baccalaureate Education
  

• Committee on Children, Youth, and Families

• Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology

• Committee on Division/APA Relations

• Committee on Early Career Psychologists

• Committee on Education and Training Awards

• Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs

• Committee on Human Research

• Committee for Global Psychology

• Committee on Professional Practice and Standards

• Committee on Psychology in the Public Interest Awards  

• Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessment

• Committee on Rural Health

• Committee on Scientific Awards

• Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

• Committee on Socioeconomic Status

• Committee on Women in Psychology

• Continuing Education Committee

• Council of Editors

• Needs Assessment, Slating and Campaigns Committee

Ad hoc groups (task forces, working groups, panels, etc.) are appointed by standing or continuing committees for a specific purpose and a limited time.

• Ad Hoc Committee on Health Equity

• APA Task Force on Differences of Sex Development

• BEA Task Force on Guidelines for Master’s Programs in Psychology

• Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology Taskforce (CEMRRAT2)

• Designation Committee for Postdoctoral Education and Training Programs in Psychopharmacology for Prescriptive Authority

• Ethics Code Task Force

• Journal Advisory Committee

• Open Science and Methodology Expert Panel

• Task Force on Serious Mental Illness/Severe Emotional Disturbance