Vision: The Promotion of Human Well-Being in Singapore
Mission: To Advance the Research and Practice of Psychology in Singapore

Membership FAQs

Singapore Psychological Society is a professional society with aim for the advancement of psychology as a science and as a profession in Singapore. Please view Membership Benefits for more details.

The Singapore Register of Psychologists is an official directory of Registered Psychologists within the Singapore Psychological Society. SPS seeks to ensure the service quality of Registered Psychologists through the SRP, a regulatory system that promotes transparency, accountability and professionalism for the services provided.

Please view Singapore Register of Psychologists for more details.

One of the requirements of SRP membership is that the applicant has to be a Full member of SPS. The SRP is not a licensing board. SRP membership does not serve as a license to practice as a psychologist but shows that the member has reached a certain standard of training and experience and is qualified to practice. Only Full SPS members and SRP members, that meet the requirements to practice as a psychologist are allowed to use the acronym of MSPS (Member of Singapore Psychological Society).

Please view the Criteria and Categories for Membership page for the different membership categories as well as their respective requirements.

Work experience in a psychological field would include work that encompasses the practice of psychology – be it research in a psychology related field or specific direct client work with certain population groups.

Please note that counselling is a separate field from Counselling Psychology. For counselling psychology, besides needing to demonstrate that psychological tools or methods are constantly used in the field of work, receiving supervision by a counselling psychologist is also essential.

Look at the Full member directory on our website or contact your (local) university’s psychological department. You may even have friends or colleagues who are already Full members of Singapore Psychological Society. Alternatively, you may want to attend one of our social events or talks held by SPS and network with our committee and members.

Certified true copies are photocopies of the actual transcripts that have been certified as true by a recognised individual of standing in society or the institution that awarded the transcript/ certificate. Preferably the institute that awarded the transcript should certify the copies as true. Other examples of accepted persons/ institutions to certify the transcripts are lawyers, notary public and embassies.

To upgrade your membership, you will need to fill out the form for that category of membership you are applying for.

The application instructions and form can be found here.

In addition, you should include a short note, to indicate that you
wish to upgrade your current membership.

For those upgrading from Associate to Full membership, please include details on the nature of the work done. It is important that the work experience should be in the psychological field. You will not need to pay the one-time processing fee again, but just the yearly membership fee if you are upgrading your membership.

Yearly membership fee payments can be made here: Renew / Upgrade Membership.

It takes on average 2 to 3 months to process membership applications, once received, assuming that all papers are in order and the application is submitted complete. Your application will be first reviewed by the membership subcommittee. After review, the application will then be recommended for approval in the next Council meeting. Those with overseas qualifications may require a longer processing time.

Please contact us here with the said changes. Please include your full name, membership category as well as IC no. For those with changes in academic qualifications or name, please provide certified true copies of the supporting documents to us.

Membership Fees FAQs

You may pay by internet banking. You may use any Internet Banking Account with any bank. If you have already set up a recurring payment through PayPal, the yearly fees will be automatically deducted from your account. Please ensure that you have enough money for this process. For more details, please contact us.

Please do not submit cash by post. Please contact us to discuss suitable alternatives.

You may contact us to enquire. Do note that if you have set up a recurring payment with paypal, membership fees will be automatically deducted on a yearly basis. If you wish to stop this payment, you may do so at any time through the settings in your paypal account.

Since 1 Oct 2021, both members residing overseas and local members pay S$100 for the full membership.

Individuals whose membership has lapsed may re-apply and will have an initial opportunity to reinstate their membership by paying their dues for the current year and the normal application fees. Membership will then be deemed to have commenced from the date of reinstatement. Members who have lapsed dues for more than 1 year will have their names taken off the membership register. Such lapsed members will have to reapply for membership and provide all supporting and updated documents required. It will be taken as a new membership application and will require payment of that year’s membership fee and processing fee.

Please refer to SPS Membership Application for more information.

If your membership has lapsed in the last 1 year and you did not renew in Oct – Dec of the year, please make your renewal payments through the following page: SPS Membership Renewals. If you do not have a PayPal account, you may use other forms of payment including cheque / Internet Banking for payments. Please do not submit cash by post. You may contact us to discuss suitable alternatives. 

Career/ Study FAQs

No, there are no differences in the degrees. The title differences would depend on which faculty the psychology department is located in that particular university. To view the differences, looking at the individual modules provided by the courses would be a more accurate measure. Advice to students looking at studying psychology overseas is to only take up courses that are accredited by the recognised psychological society of that country.

Only overseas university courses that are accredited by recognized established psychological societies of that particular country are recognised by SPS. Australian Psychological Society (APS), British Psychological society (BPS) and American Psychological Association (APA) are examples of such societies. This is to say that a degree programme offered by an Australian university that is accredited by the Australian Psychological Society will be recognised. 

Please note that for student membership, we only accept minimum degree or equivalent courses of study.

SPS does not accredit any of the local degrees. However, currently we recognise the degree and post-graduduate studies provided by the major educational institutions in Singapore. These include the National University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) and Singapore Management University (SMU).

Administrative Matters FAQs

No, there are no differences in the degrees. The title differences would depend on which faculty the psychology department is located in that particular university. To view the differences, looking at the individual modules provided by the courses would be a more accurate measure. Advice to students looking at studying psychology overseas is to only take up courses that are accredited by the recognised psychological society of that country.