Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology

Psychology has become a global profession. Professionals are now readilyable to practice in geographic areas far from where they were trained. Inpractice, psychology has a social contract with the public to promote human andsocietal welfare, all the while responsible for the constant upkeep of systemsthat promote, maintain, and demand quality from health care professionals. InGlobal Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology,editors Judy E. Hall and Elizabeth M. Altmaier examine the tools needed forevaluating the crucial components of quality assurance- education, training,accreditation and designation, licensing and credentialing, ethics, mobility,and continuing professional development- from an international perspective, witha specific focus on practices in the United States, Canada, the European Union,Latin America, Australia, and The Netherlands and vignettes on the UnitedKingdom, China and South Africa. An international team of contributorssynthesizes the progress made in implementing quality assurance mechanismsacross the globe and offers diverse perspectives as to how the widerinternational community can promote quality and mobility. With an eye toward thefuture of psychology as well as on the systems that will support it, GlobalPromise is required reading for universities, regulatory bodies, professionalassociations, professionals and students.