Dr. Jane S Halonen

At theCompetencies Conference: Future Directions in Education andCredentialing in Professional Psychology, the Scientific Foundations andResearch Competencies Work Group focused on identifying how psychol-ogists practice scientifically. This article presents the subcomponentsassociated with the core competency of scientific practice. The subcom-ponents include: 1) access and apply current scientific knowledge habit-ually and appropriately; 2) contribute to knowledge; 3) critically evaluateinterventions and their outcomes; 4) practice vigilance about how socio-cultural variables influence scientific practice; and 5) routinely subjectwork to the scrutiny of colleagues, stakeholders, and the public. In addi-tion, the article briefly discusses how the depth of training for and assess-ment of each subcomponent will vary by training model. Implicationsand future directions for individual psychologists, training programs,