Become a Psychologist

The American Psychological Association offers 54 active divisions, based upon popular areas of expertise within psychology. These divisions are:

1. Society for General Psychology. This was the first division formed by the APA, in 1945, and it is concerned with issues across the subdisciplines of psychology.
2. Society for the Teaching of Psychology. This division provides free teaching material for students and teachers of psychology and bestows many awards.
3. Experimental Psychology
4. Currently vacant. Initially the Psychometric Society, which decided against becoming an APA division
5. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (previously named Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics)
6. Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology
7. Developmental Psychology
8. Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts
9. Currently vacant. Initially Abnormal Psychology and Psychotherapy, joined division 12 in 1946
10. Society of Clinical Psychology. This division was established in 1948 with 482 members. In 1962 it created clinical child psychology as its first section.
11. Educational Psychology
12. School Psychology. This division was originally formed as the Division of School Psychologists in 1945 and renamed in 1969.
13. Society of Counseling Psychology
14. Psychologists in Public Service
15. Society for Military Psychology
16. Adult Development and Aging
17. Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology
18. Rehabilitation Psychology
19. Society for Consumer Psychology
20. Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
21. Behavior Analysis
22. Society for the History of Psychology
23. Society for Community Research and Action: Division of Community Psychology
24. Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
25. Psychotherapy
26. Society of Psychological Hypnosis
27. State, Provincial and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs
28. Society for Humanistic Psychology
29. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
30. Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology
31. Society for the Psychology of Women
32. Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
33. Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice
34. Health Psychology
35. Psychoanalysis
36. Psychologists in Independent Practice
37. Society for Family Psychology
38. Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues
39. Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
    
40. Media Psychology
41. Exercise and Sport Psychology
42. Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division
43. Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy
44. Society of Addiction Psychology
45. Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity
46. International Psychology
47. Society of Pediatric Psychology
48. American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy