Survey of the educational backgrounds and specialty training of instructors of clinical neuropsychology in APA-Approved graduate training programs: A 10-year follow-up

Abstract

This report is a replication of a survey conducted a decade ago that examined the graduate training and postdoctoral experiences of the instructors of clinical neuropsychology within American Psychological Association-accredited doctoral programs in clinical psychology. The orginal findings indicated that the formal background and clinical experiences of most of the instructors of clinical neuropsychology fell short of the minimum level of training guidelines proposed by the International Neuropsychology Society (INS) Task Force on Education, Accreditation, and Credentialing. In the present survey, data from 61 doctoral training programs revealed that instructors are more closely approximating the minimal educational standards than they were a decade earlier. Specifically, respondents to the current survey indicated more training in both the neurosciences and clinical neuropsychology and involvement in more research activities than did respondents to the past survey. Despite the significant improvements in the background training of current instructors, many still do not report educational and clinical experiences that are consistent with the INS minimal level training guidelines.