Operationalizing and Evaluating Professional Competencies in Psychology: Out With the Old, in With the New?

Training and Education in Professional Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 4 SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Schulte, Ann C ^a   Daly III, Edward J ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

competency benchmarks; evaluation of training; professional competency; training

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649103720     PISSN: 19313918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017155     Document Type: Article

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