36 - The Minnesota 2022 Update Conference: History, Process, and Essential Outcomes Regarding Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology

Efforts to develop consensus education and training guidelines began in the 1970s and reached a milestone with the development of Houston Conference Guidelines (HCG), published in 1998. Since the development of HCG over two decades ago, three compelling needs have emerged to update them. First, HCG were released prior to contemporary competency approaches that have become an integral part of training within psychology and other disciplines. Second, our current assessment strategies are predominantly monolingual and monocultural despite ever-increasing linguistic, racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity within North America. We need to fully integrate multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes within all aspects of clinical neuropsychological competence. Third, the technologies employed in many of our assessment approaches have changed little over time. In order to prepare the neuropsychology workforce of the future, training programs will need to provide students and trainees with competence in new technologies and advances in neuroscience and data analytics. In 2021, an interorganizational Planning Commission was formed to design a process by which our education and training guidelines would be updated, building on the foundation of HCG and more recent developments in competencies, diversity, and technology. Attendees will gain an understanding of the process and outcomes of the Minnesota conference to date, including policy statements for use by training programs and consensus statements regarding ongoing development initiatives in education and training designed to maximize clinical neuropsychology’s relevance throughout the 21st century.