<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">The Association
of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB), an organization
comprised of all the psychology licensing boards in the United States and
Canada,<b> is seeking volunteers with expertise and
experience in writing multiple-choice (MC) test items/questions</b> for
the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology Part 1 – Knowledge
(EPPP-1).</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers are
the people who write the MC items that are on the EPPP-1. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Writers are selected
for their expertise and experience, to represent geographic, work, demographic,
cultural, and professional diversities. Writers are professors, researchers, psychologists
in practice, etc. Early career psychologists are encouraged to apply because
they represent the largest portion of those for whom the EPPP-1 is intended.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers are professionals
working in one or more of the knowledge domains that are assessed by the EPPP-1.
The domains are: 1. </span></font><font color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Biological Bases of Behavior; 2 Cognitve-Affective Bases of
Behavior; 3. Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior; 4. Growth and Lifespan
Development; 5. Assessment and Diagnosis; 6. Treatment, Intervention, and
Prevention and Supervision; 7. Research Methods and Statistics; 8. Ethical/Legal/Professional
Issues</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">This
call is for volunteers with expertise and exprience in Domain 1</span></font></b><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> which covers the following specific content areas: </span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10pt">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span></font></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Functional
correlates and determinants of the neurobiological and genetic bases of
behavior pertaining to perception, cognition, personality, and mood and affect
in normal, acute and chronic neurobehavioral disease processes and disease
comorbidities; </span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10pt">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span></font></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Drug
classification, mechanisms of action, and desired/adverse effects of
therapeutic agents, drugs of abuse, and complementary or alternative agents; </span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10pt">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span></font></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Results from
major trials and general guidelines for pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and
combined treatment of psychological disorders; </span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 3pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10pt">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span></font></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Behavioral
genetics, transmission and expression of genetic information and its modification,
and the role and limitations of this information in understanding disorders; </span></font></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="2" color="black" face="Symbol"><span style="font-size:10pt">·<font size="1" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">
</span></font></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Applications of
structural and functional brain imaging methods, electrophysiological methods,
therapeutic drug monitoring methods, and genetic screening methodologies, and
the evidence for their effectiveness</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers meet once each
year -- usually in the Spring, at the ASPPB office in Tyrone GA -- for a 2-day
item writing workshop. Each writer drafts 10-15 new items prior to the
workshop, and at the workshop, </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">these items are reviewed and revised -- tweaked in a group session
with item-writer colleagues from the same knowledge domain. For the item
writing workshop, the ASPPB covers travel and accommodation costs.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">If you are interested in
becoming an EPPP1 item writer for Domain 1, please send a brief note and a <b>copy of your current CV</b> to </span></font><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline"><u><font size="3" color="#0563c1" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:asppb.eppp1@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">asppb.eppp1@gmail.com</a></span></font></u></span><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">. Your note will come to me, Peter Graf, Chair of the EPPP1 Item
Writing Committee (IDC). </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Item writers are vetted by
me as the Chair of the IDC, in collaboration with the chair of the knowledge
domain </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">(each
domain has between 3 and 7 writers, plus a chair) and with Hao </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Song, the ASBBC </span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Associate Executive Officer of Examination
Services.</span></font><font size="3" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Please forward this message
to any individuals who you think may be interested in volunteering to write items
for the EPPP-1.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Thank you for reading this
note.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"> </span></font><span style="font-size:16pt;color:black;font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC"">Peter Graf</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font size="3" color="black" face="Arial Narrow"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Chair EPPP1 IDC </span></font></p></div>