American Psychological Association of Graduate Students

American Psychological Association of Graduate Students

Formation	1988 (1988)
Headquarters	750 First Street, NE Washington, D.C., U.S.
Website	www.apa.org/apags

The American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) is a constituency group within the American Psychological Association that represents APA graduate student affiliate members. Founded in 1988, APAGS currently represents approximately one-third of all members of the American Psychological Association, making it one of the largest constituency groups within the association and the largest group of organized graduate psychology students worldwide.^[1] APAGS was formed by David Pilon and Scott Mesh who were graduate students in clinical psychology. David Pilon was then the president of SOSIP (Society of Students in Psychology of the Ontario Psychological Association) and Scott Mesh was president of CPSE (Clinical Psychology Student Association of Greater New York). Most leaders in organized psychology at the time thought that APAGS was a bad idea and cited the fact that students graduate as the reason such an organization would fail. However, Pilon and Mesh found friends in psychologists Ray Fowler, Charlie Spielberger, Pierre Ritchie, Ellin Bloch, Virginia Staudt Sexton, John Hogan, Jeff Nevid and Louis Primavera. These psychologists helped Pilon and Mesh lay the groundwork to form APAGS at the August meeting of the American Psychological Association in Atlanta, Georgia.

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