The Commission on Accreditation (CoA) held its fall 2021 program review meeting from October 20–23, 2021. In the CoA’s review of programs during this meeting, decisions were made on 45 programs including six applicant programs that were awarded an initial accredited status. As a result of travel restrictions consequent to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of these applicant programs participated in a virtual site visit as part of the accreditation application process.
All programs that underwent or will undergo a virtual site visit must have an in-person verification visit when it is safe to do so. These programs will receive notice when decisions are made regarding approving and scheduling the required on-site verification visit.
The commission’s workgroups and policy groups convened to review policy and work on policy matters including the election of chairs for 2022 and implementing regulations (IRs) with forthcoming public comment.
Decisions from the 2021 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 23, 2021:
| Programs (level and area) | Accredited programs | ||||
| Doctoral programs | Area | PhD | PsyD | ||
| Full | Contingent | Full | Contingent | ||
| Clinical | 174 | 4 | 65 | 8 | |
| Counseling | 65 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |
| School | 59 | 2 | 8 | 3 | |
| Combined | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |
| Total doctoral programs | 414 | ||||
| Internship programs | Full | Contingent | |||
| 631 | 16 | ||||
| Total internship programs | 647 | ||||
| Postdoctoral residency programs | Area | Full | Contingent | ||
| Traditional – clinical | 94 | 3 | |||
| Clinical child psychology | 8 | 1 | |||
| Clinical health psychology | 11 | 1 | |||
| Clinical neuropsychology | 33 | 9 | |||
| Forensic psychology | 1 | 0 | |||
| Geropsychology | 3 | 0 | |||
| Rehabilitation psychology | 10 | 1 | |||
| Total postdoctoral programs | 175 | ||||
| Total | 1,236 | ||||