Language: ASPPB offers a French form of the EPPP (the FEPPP) where a licensing authority legally requires one. ASPPB has not yet published the competency statements in French, so our questions and cards are in English until it does.

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One concept card for each of the integrated EPPP's 76 competency statements: the key ideas, a worked example and a quick check, with the sources behind every claim. A question you answer wrong in practice links to its card.

1. Scientific Orientation to Practice

1.A.1Biological bases: genes, brain systems, drugs and imaging
1.A.2Learning, memory, emotion and motivation in everyday behavior
1.A.3Social and cultural forces on behavior
1.A.4Development across the lifespan: risk, protection and timing
1.A.5Models of psychopathology and their effect on functioning
1.B.1Sampling, data collection and research designs
1.B.2Analyzing data and interpreting statistics
1.C.1Critically evaluating research findings
1.C.2Applying research to practice: does this evidence fit here?
1.D.1Reporting research accurately in professional settings
1.D.2Explaining psychological knowledge so people can use it

2. Assessment

2.A.1Psychometric foundations: consistency, evidence, accuracy and fairness
2.A.2Assessment methods and what each can and cannot show
2.A.3Choosing and adapting assessment methods
2.A.4Common instruments and matching them to the question
2.B.1Fitting instruments to the person being assessed
2.B.2Tailoring the assessment as it unfolds
2.B.3Letting the referral context shape working hypotheses
2.B.4Differential diagnosis: from findings to conclusions
2.B.5Base rates, development, culture and the traps of clinical judgment
2.C.1Scoring and interpreting standardized tests
2.C.2When standard administration is not possible
2.C.3Integrating findings across methods and informants
2.D.1Keeping the assessment on the question
2.D.2Using models of psychopathology to formulate
2.D.3Diagnosing with current taxonomies
2.D.4Communicating results that people can use

3. Intervention

3.A.1Treatment models and how they produce change
3.A.2Choosing a treatment: evidence, fit, readiness and cost
3.A.3Telepsychology and digital treatments
3.B.1Choosing by evidence: efficacy, effectiveness and comparisons
3.B.2Setting goals: from crisis to quality of life
3.B.3Building the plan with the client and others
3.B.4Explaining why: the rationale for a recommendation
3.C.1Monitoring response session by session
3.C.2Adapting treatment to the person and the response
3.C.3Explaining a change of plan and deciding together
3.C.4Evaluating outcomes: reliable, meaningful and lasting change
3.D.1Planning prevention: tiers, risk and what works
3.D.3Monitoring and improving a prevention program
3.D.4Explaining changes to prevention with stakeholders
3.D.5Evaluating prevention outcomes

4. Consultation and Supervision

4.A.1Consultation models: who the client is and what the consultee needs
4.A.2Supervision models and what the evidence shows
4.A.3Evaluating consultation and supervision: needs, formative and summative
4.B.1Organizations and systems: changing the setting, not only the people
4.B.2Consulting from the consultee's world: profession, culture and context
4.B.3Evidence-based consulting and better group decisions
4.C.1Running an evaluation: plan, monitor and adapt
4.C.2Reporting evaluation results people can understand and use
4.D.1The supervision plan: a written agreement for the work ahead
4.D.2Supervisees' responsibilities to clients: consent, status and privacy
4.D.3Monitoring compliance and responding when standards are not met
4.E.1Behaviorally anchored feedback on strengths and growth
4.E.2Keeping supervisees within their competence and the supervisor's

5. Interpersonal Relationships

5.A.1How moods, stereotypes and social systems shape what people think and do
5.A.2Attraction, aggression, fairness and power between people
5.A.3Identity, diversity and intersectionality at every level
5.B.1Self-reflection: knowing what you bring into the room
5.B.2Adapting your professional behavior to the person and the setting
5.B.3Naming and working through differences with clients and colleagues
5.B.4Consulting about your own reactions
5.C.1Respectful, empathic engagement across differences
5.C.2Culturally attuned skills for building and keeping alliances
5.C.3Consulting with stakeholders and advocating for clients

6. Ethical and Professional Practice

6.A.1The APA and CPA codes: what binds and what guides
6.A.2Standards, guidelines and what each asks of you
6.B.1Ethical decision making with clients and stakeholders
6.B.2Seeking consultation on ethics and competence
6.B.3Raising ethical concerns with a colleague
6.B.4When law and ethics pull in different directions
6.B.5Research ethics and honest reporting of findings
6.C.1Recognizing the limits of competence and referring well
6.C.2Expanding practice into new areas and technologies
6.C.3Keeping competence current
6.C.4Owning mistakes and correcting them