Mandatory Continuing Education 

Sandra Kerka  

On Mandatory Continuing Education    

Cynthia McLoughlin

Mandatory Continuing Education: Does it Really Protect Society from Incompetent Professionals?   Patricia A. Mc Partland

Update on Mandatory Continuing Education 

Cynthia McLoughlin

Ideas Concerning Mandatory Continuing Education for Psychoanalytic Psychology - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, or a Journey From the Sublime to the Ridiculous   Barry Dauphin

Policing Professionals  Marvin Hyman

Exchange of Letters on Mandatory Continuing Education and the MPA  Patrick B. Kavanaugh, &  Marvin Hyman; Daniel H. Swerdlow-Freed; Bert Karon

On Psychoanalytic Education, National Standards, and Mandatory Continuing Education Patrick B. Kavanaugh

Codes of Silence and Whispers of Discontent: A Perspective on Mandatory Continuing Education    Patrick B. Kavanaugh 

Michigan Mandatory CE Efforts Confront Roadblock  From the National Psychologist

MSPP President's Column on MCE    Etta G. Saxe

Open Letter to Colleagues on Mandatory Continuing Education    

Etta G. Saxe

Straight Time and Standard Brand Adult Education  John Ohliger 

Continuing Education  Ed Zuckerman 

MCE UPDATE for 

 Michigan Psychologists 

First, proponents of MCE admitted that they could produce no evidence that mandatory continuing education has any impact whatsoever on its stated goal of protecting the public from incompetent or unethical practitioners. Not that MCE has been found to be ineffective. The interesting thing is that no one has studied the question.

Second, despite the lack of evidence that MCE is effective, the imposition of such requirements seemed to have caused little comment, let alone debate in psychology or in other professions. Internet searches yield hundreds of sites where one can purchase one’s required credits, but    almost no discussion of whether such requirements are reasonable or even of what the requirements ought to be. 

We are interested in promoting such discussion, and toward that end present a number of articles and letters discussing the issue of mandatory continuing education, as well as links to other sites where information on this topic is available. 

We’d like to hear about the experiences of professionals who are already living with this requirement. Let us hear from you.

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APA Approval of Sponsors of Continuing Professional Education for Psychologists. Criteria and Procedures Manual http://www.apa.org/ce/CPmanual.html  

APA main page on CE http://www.apa.org/ce/