The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) held its fall 2020 program review meeting from October 22–25, 2020. The CoA conducted a full review of 48 programs during this meeting, including two applicant programs receiving an initial accredited status. The commission elected its leadership team for 2021. Georita Frierson, PhD, will be leading the commission as the CoA chair. The CoA’s workgroups and policy groups convened to review policy and begin preparing for next year’s policy and program review priorities.
Decisions from the 2020 fall program review meeting are available on the OPCA's website. Please see the following table for a summary of accredited programs as of October 25, 2020:
| Programs (level and area) | Accredited programs | ||||
| Doctoral programs | Area | PhD | PsyD | ||
| Full | Contingent | Full | Contingent | ||
| Clinical | 173 | 3 | 60 | 6 | |
| Counseling | 62 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |
| School | 56 | 7 | 1 | 3 | |
| Combined | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| Total doctoral programs | 395 | ||||
| Internship programs | Full | Contingent | |||
| 609 | 35 | ||||
| Total internship programs | 644 | ||||
| Postdoctoral residency programs | Area | Full | Contingent | ||
| Traditional—clinical | 94 | 3 | |||
| Clinical child psychology | 8 | 1 | |||
| Clinical health psychology | 11 | 1 | |||
| Clinical neuropsychology | 32 | 9 | |||
| Forensic psychology | 1 | 0 | |||
| Geropsychology | 3 | 0 | |||
| Rehabilitation psychology | 10 | 1 | |||
| Total postdoctoral programs | 174 | ||||
| Total | 1,214 | ||||