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The American Psychological Association offers 54 active divisions, based upon popular areas of expertise within psychology. These divisions are:
- 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.
- Society for the Teaching of Psychology. This division provides free teaching material for students and teachers of psychology and bestows many awards.
- Experimental Psychology
- Currently vacant. Initially the Psychometric Society, which decided against becoming an APA division
- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods (previously named Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics)
- Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts
- Currently vacant. Initially Abnormal Psychology and Psychotherapy, joined division 12 in 1946
- Society of Clinical Psychology. This division was established in 1948 with 482 members. In 1962 it created clinical child psychology as its first section.
- Educational Psychology
- School Psychology. This division was originally formed as the Division of School Psychologists in 1945 and renamed in 1969.
- Society of Counseling Psychology
- Psychologists in Public Service
- Society for Military Psychology
- Adult Development and Aging
- Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology
- Rehabilitation Psychology
- Society for Consumer Psychology
- Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
- Behavior Analysis
- Society for the History of Psychology
- Society for Community Research and Action: Division of Community Psychology
- Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
- Psychotherapy
- Society of Psychological Hypnosis
- State, Provincial and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs
- Society for Humanistic Psychology
- Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Society for Environmental, Population and Conservation Psychology
- Society for the Psychology of Women
- Society for the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
- Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice
- Health Psychology
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychologists in Independent Practice
- Society for Family Psychology
- Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues
- Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
- Media Psychology
- Exercise and Sport Psychology
- Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division
- Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy
- Society of Addiction Psychology
- Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity
- International Psychology
- Society of Pediatric Psychology
- American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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