A Health Service Provider in Psychology is a licensed/certified psychologist, at the independent practice level in his/her state, province, or country, who is trained and experienced in the delivery of preventive, consultative, assessment, and therapeutic services (rev. 2007).

National Register Vision: To improve the health of a diverse and global community.

National Register Mission: The National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology credentials licensed psychologists, promotes credentialed psychologists to consumers, provides distinction and value to its Registrants, guides psychology students toward credentialing, and enhances psychologists' contributions to integrated health care.

Mission-Driven Activities: The National Register is a nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience serving consumers, psychologists, and the health-care community. We are the largest and most successful credentialing organization in psychology.

To realize our goal of credentialing licensed psychologists, we:

• determine which doctoral-level psychologists meet National Register’s stringent requirements for education, internship, and experience as health-care professionals;
• disseminate standards for evaluating the education and training of health-service psychologists; and 
• award annual credentialing scholarships to Early Career Psychologists (ECPs) in collaboration with the APA Committee on ECPs.

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

• offer the free Find a Psychologist website (www.FindaPsychologist.org) to connect informed consumers with health-service psychologists;
• provide self-help and consumer resources; and
• monitor the licensure status and ethical conduct of psychologists to ensure integrity in the profession and quality of patient care.

To realize our goal of providing distinction and value to its Registrants, we:

• expedite licensure mobility for psychologists within the 43 jurisdictions in the US and Canada now approving the National Register;
• offer free continuing education (CE) programs and credits for Registrants (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);
• publish The Register Report featuring articles on practice, ethics, and emerging proficiencies;
• market Registrants’ practices to consumers through www.FindaPsychologist.org and Registrant Profile Pages.
• verify psychologists’ credentials to healthcare organizations;
• recognize innovative services through the annual Hall Awards and Wellner Awards; and
• advocate for the services and scope of practice of psychologists at the state and federal levels.

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

• offer the National Psychologist Trainee Register as the entry point for banking their credentials and charting their progress toward licensure;
• inform students of credentialing and licensure through NR publications and programs;
• identify qualified doctoral programs in psychology through the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards/National Register Designation Project;
• distribute the 4-volume DVD series (A Legacy of Excellence) on education, supervision, specialization, and credentialing for students and faculty; and
• award credentialing scholarships, in collaboration with American Psychological Association Graduate Students, for doctoral students to join the National Psychologist Trainee Register.

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

• evaluate and disseminate mechanisms for ensuring quality health-care services;
• advocate for the continued integration of psychological services into primary health care and the recognition of psychologists as primary health-care professionals;
• serve as the only National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) deemed source of credentials verification in the profession;
• support emerging practice areas for psychologists, including prescriptive authority; and
• designate postdoctoral psychopharmacology programs in collaboration with the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.