| Abstract: | The Committee on Professional Standards (COPS) of the Board of Professional Affairs (BPA) is the APA governance committee charged with the responsibility for development and interpretation of the Association's quality assurance policy. In its initial charge to COPS, BPA asked the committee to develop a "casebook for providers of psychological services." The goal of the casebook would be the implementation of the Specialty Guidelines for the Delivery of Services by Clinical (Counseling, Industrial/Organizational, School) Psychologists (approved by Council in January 1980). The focus of the cases would be quality assurance problems that came to the attention of COPS directly or through other governance bodies such as the Committee on Academic Freedom and Conditions of Employment or the Committee on Scientific and Professional Ethics and Conduct, COPS would be responsible for developing three or four cases per year, with these cases appearing in the June archival issue of the American Psychologist. This report contains the first three cases, developed by COPS during its October 1980 meeting and approved for publication by the Board of Professional Affairs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
