![]() The American Psychological Association started last for 117 years ago as a scientific and professional organization. ![]() The proposed six-pronged strategy including Communication, Coming together, Creating Local Chapters, Consensus Forming, Collectively Working, and Configuration of Psychology Associations, may help young psychologists to work together to achieve the objectives of the associations. From the organizational perspective, striving to bring together all the psychological associations that have the national fervor under a Federation of Psychology Associations may be a workable solution and three models of Federation are discussed in this paper. There is a need to develop strategies that would help to achieve our objectives as mentioned in the 'Aims and Objectives " of the psychology associations. Psychology associations could provide leadership in responding to the issues that affect the general public of this country like issues of farmers' suicide, disasters, communal riots or public health/mental health issues in an organized manner. Even though there are commonalities among the objectives of the different psychology associations, there is a lack of collaboration among them. They have played a key role in the development and growth of the profession. In countries where psychology has attained prominence have received support from the professional psychology associations. However, the profession has not made its mark in the history of the country. The scientific psychology in India is more than a century old. ![]()
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