A Health Service Provider in Psychology is a licensed/certified psychologist, at the independent practice level in his/her state, province, territory, or country, who is trained and experienced in the delivery of prevention, consultation, assessment, and treatment (rev. 2010).

Vision

To improve the health of a diverse and global community.

Mission

The National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology:

• credentials health service psychologists;
• promotes credentialed health service psychologists to consumers;
• provides distinction and value to health service psychologists;
• guides psychology students and early career psychologists (ECPs) toward credentialing;
• enhances health service psychologists' contributions to integrated healthcare; and
• identifies qualified health service psychologists in the global community.

Mission Driven Activities

To realize our goal of credentialing health service psychologists, we:

1. determine which licensed psychologists meet the National Register’s stringent requirements for education, internship, and experience as healthcare professionals;
2. monitor the licensure status and ethical conduct of health service psychologists by verifying licensure status with the primary source at least twice yearly and requiring health service psychologists to attest to ethical conduct annually; and
3. disseminate standards for evaluating the education, training and credentialing of health service psychologists.

To realize our goal of promoting credentialed health service psychologists to consumers, we:

1. provide free access to our database of credentialing and contact information on ~11,000 health service psychologists (FindaPsychologist.org); and
2. empower consumers with information including articles, useful websites, and self-help resources.

To realize our goal of providing distinction and value to health service psychologists, we:

1. promote health service psychologists
2. advocate for their services and scope of practice at the state and federal levels;
3. expedite licensure mobility for health service psychologists in 46 jurisdictions in the US and Canada, and in other countries;
4. verify health service psychologists’ credentials to healthcare organizations through NationalRegisterPro.org;
5. market health service psychologists to consumers through FindaPsychologist.org and Profile Pages; 
6. offer free continuing education (CE) programs* for health service psychologists;
7. publish The Register Report online and in print;
8. build stakeholder networks through social media outreach;
9. reward and recognize early career psychologists through the Judy E. Hall ECP Awards; and
10. recognize lifetime achievement in psychology through the A.M Wellner Distinguished Career Awards.

*The National Register is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The National Register maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

To realize our goal of guiding psychology students and ECPs toward credentialing, we:

1. offer the National Psychologist Trainee Register (NPTR) as the entry point for banking approved credentials and charting progress toward licensure and credentialing;
2. award NPTR and ECP credentialing scholarships;
3. identify qualified doctoral programs in psychology (ASPPB/National Register Designation Project) and acceptable internship and postdoctoral supervised experience in health service provision; and
4. publish articles by doctoral students and ECPs in The Register Report.

To realize our goal of enhancing health service psychologists' contributions to integrated healthcare, we:

1. monitor healthcare reform and disseminate information on the integral role of health service psychologists;
2. identify and promote examples of effective models for quality healthcare services;
3. advocate for the integration of psychological services into primary healthcare; and
4. serve as a National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) deemed source for credentials verification of psychologists' education, training and board certification.

To realize our goal of identifying qualified health service psychologists in the global community, we:

1. expedite licensure mobility for health service psychologists throughout the world;
2. review the education and training of internationally-trained applicants for health service provider credentialing;
3. review the education of internationally-trained applicants for licensure on behalf of state, provincial, and territorial licensing boards; 
4. identify qualified doctoral programs in psychology outside the US and Canada; and
5. collaborate in the development of an international register of psychologists.