European Federation of Psychologists' Associations

The European Federation of Psychologists ' Associations ( European Federation of Psychologist 's Associations, EFPA ) is a federation of national professional trade associations for psychology of the European countries. It now has 35 member organizations, representing about 300,000 psychologists in Europe. It was founded in 1981 in Germany ( 12 founding organizations ). Seat of EFPA in Brussels. Affilierte members are the EFPSA ( European Federation of Psychology Students ' Associations) and the EFPTA ( European Federation of Psychology Teachers' Association).

  • With the EuroPsy program, a uniform European standard of training for academic psychology training was created.
  • A further object is to the adoption of ethical guidelines for European Psychologists Associations, the basis of professional activities of psychologists be and are implemented in national ethics guidelines ( see also: Ethics Commission).
  • In addition, other European standards are developed: Services on the Internet
  • Procedures for detecting unethical behavior
  • Rules for forensic psychology ( assessment )
  • Psychology as a science: Board of Scientific Affairs
  • Education and training: Board of Educational Affairs
  • Job description: Board of Professional Development
  • Ethics: Board of Ethics
  • Prevention and intervention: Board of Prevention and Intervention
  • Psychological Assessment and Quality Assurance: Board of Assessment

The organization is the European Psychologist journal out, which is also the official organ of EFPA.

The organization is chaired by an Executive Council. President (2009 to 2013) is Robert Roe (Netherlands). Vice- President are Robertas Povilaitis ( 2011-2015, Lithuania) and Edward van Rossen ( 2011-2015, Belgium ), Christoph Bach stones represents a delegate of the BDP 2011-2015 German-speaking countries on the Executive Committee.

Member associations in the German-speaking area are the Professional Association of German Psychologists, the Federation of Swiss Psychologists, the Professional Association of Austrian psychologists and the professional association of psychologists in Liechtenstein.

Weblink

  • Homepage of the EFPA
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