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How to Join

   

For information on how to join, please see the Applications and Fees section of the British Psychological Society's main website. If you are not sure what grade of membership to apply for or have any queries regarding your application please contact the Admissions Team (tel: 0116 252 9525; e-mail: applications@bps.org.uk) who will be happy to help. E-mails are normally respond to within one working day.

Why should I join the Division of Clinical Psychology?

  • Are you a qualified clinical psychologist?
  • Are you training to become a clinical psychologist?
  • Are you presently working as an Assistant Psychologist in the NHS and want to train as a clinical psychologist?

If so, you should consider joining the Division of Clinical Psychology. It is the organisation devoted to developing clinical psychologists skills and developing clinical psychology as both body of knowledge and as a profession.

Benefits of membership to DCP include...

  • Professional status easily recognised by employing authorities and other professional bodies.
  • Entitlement to use the specialist term 'Chartered' and refer to yourself, once registered with the HPC, as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist

  • Clinical Psychology Forum and other publications, keeping you informed of current events and issues of importance to the profession.
  • DCP eBulletin keep you informed of the latest events by e-mail.
  • Discount on registration for the DCP Annual Conference.
  • Automatic Membership of your local DCP Branch enabling you to participate in the business and scientific meetings of the branch with consequent professional benefits of involvement at a local level.
  • Access to the members' areas of the DCP and British Psychological Society websites.
  • Eligibility for membership of our various Faculties and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) specialising in various areas of clinical psychology.

  • Eligibility for nomination to serve on the national DCP Committee, your local branch committee, sub-committees and working parties of the Division.

  • Your membership will increase the representation of the Division, and enable it to press with more weight for changes to benefit the profession and its members.

 
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