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How to Develop an EPPP Study Schedule (and other advice after a two-time fail)

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Dr. Graham Taylor answers your EPPP questions.
Dr. Graham Taylor is available to answer your EPPP questions

Dr. Graham Taylor often has the opportunity to interact with people in EPPP discussion groups and online forums. He is also available to answer your EPPP questions which you can ask on our comments page.

Last year Dr. Taylor interacted with a person (who we will call Lexi) who had failed her EPPP twice. Lexi was asking advice as she prepared to study for a third try. Below is the answer Dr. Taylor gave Lexi, in which he emphasized the importance of creating an EPPP study schedule and using research-based methodologies of memory and learning.

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Feedback From the EPPP-DSM-5 Webinar Series

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The EPPP has changed!

In fact, the whole field of mental health has changed with the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Many people who are studying to pass their EPPP have been nervous about these changes, and have been wanting to know how this will effect their psychology licencing exam.

To address these and other important concerns, TSM put on a series of live webinars earlier this autumn on DSM-5 and the EPPP. These webinars are now entirely available online through the following links:

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You Are How You Think: Age and Psychology Licensing Prep

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People often say ‘You are what you eat.’ Well, it is equally true that you are what you think. Our self-perception is central in determining not simply how we think of ourselves, but the actual people we become. Graham Taylor shared some examples of this in his earlier post ‘What You Expect is What you Get.’

Nowhere is this principle more true than than when it comes to aging. If our concept of aging is characterized by words like such as “decrepit”, “decline”, “senility” rather than words like “maturity” and “wisdom”, then our self-perception as old people can have a self-fulfilling quality about it. (See our earlier post Becca Levy Shows Importance of Speech in Elderly Self-Perception.”)

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MCAT Will Test Knowledge of Psychology

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The AAMC will be changing the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in 2015 to ensure that students wishing to enter medical school are proficient in basic psychology.

On their website the AAMC announced that the MCAT changes would involve adding 59 new questions to the test to cover the Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior.

These changes to the MCAT reflect the rise of multi-disciplinary approaches to the health professions, as seen in the increased popularity of Recovery-Oriented Approaches. These approaches are emphasizing that all health professionals should be trained to work together in order to better understand the relationship between mental health disorders, addictions, past trauma and psychological factors that affect physical and mental health.

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CalSouthern Uses TSM to Prepare Students For EPPP Exam

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California Southern University is now using TSM in their psychology doctoral program. The goal is that when a student graduates from CalSouthern with a PsyD in psychology, the student will already have been prepared to pass the EPPP exam.

In the video below, Dr. Toby Spiegel, Associate Dean for the School of Behavioral Sciences, gives a short overview of the integration of the Taylor Study Method into all doctoral coursework offered at CalSouthern.