“…The LCIOP Joint Task Force considered the possibility of "certification" or "accreditation" by SIOP or other groups outside of APA to approve programs to qualify for supervised experience. However, commentaries from I-O practitioners have cautioned against formal certification of internships arguing that such requirements could threaten the very experiences the certification program would seek to foster (Gibby, McCance, Pusilo, Ducey, & Biga, 2014;Mueller-Hanson, 2014;Pratt & Massman, 2014;Sund et al, 2014). For example, organizations would likely hire interns from allied fields instead of subjecting themselves to a bureaucratic I-O internship certification process.…”