Welcome to the Pediatric Integrated Primary Care (IPC) Special Interest Group!
Mission Statement
“To create a network of professionals to highlight the work and growing nature of pediatric psychologists caring for children in pediatric primary care and integrated health care settings.”
We are an officially recognized special interest group within the Society of Pediatric Psychology (Division 54 of the American Psychological Association). The IPC-SIG maintains an active google group for its members to communicate upcoming meetings and events pertaining to the IPC-SIG. Please contact our membership and communication leads to join our google group. Membership to the IPC-SIG is open to any SPP member in good standing. Trainees interested in IPC as a subspeciality are especially encouraged to join the SIG.
As a SIG, we strive to:
As a SIG, we strive to:
- Educate SPP members-at-large about health care reform and the changing landscape for practice and funding of services.
- Develop effective mechanisms to define competencies for psychologists in pediatric primary/integrated care settings.
- Explore how pediatric psychologists in particular bring unique skills to integrated care and primary care settings (i.e., screening, triage, consultation, intervention, inter-professional training), and how their role in primary care maps to the roles of pediatric psychologists in other health care delivery systems (e.g., tertiary care).