Following are the categories of Membership including fees information.
Life/ Full Member:
Any qualified Psychologist can become a Full Member of The Sindh Psychological Association on payment of the prescribed Annual or Whole Life Membership Fee on the approval of the Executive Committee. The minimum qualification of the Psychologist shall be Masters or an Equivalent Degree in Psychology.
Honorary Life Member:
The honorary Life-Membership of the Association, may, as a mark of recognition, be conferred on anyone who may or may not be a Psychologist in the formal sense of the term, but one who, in the opinion of the Executive Committee of the Association, has rendered an outstanding services to the cause of Psychology and Psychologists or to humanity at large, provided that such a decision has been unanimously taken by the Executive Committee and ratified by the General Body. Their name shall be entered into a special register to be maintained for this purpose in the office of the Association, which shall be known as “Honorary Life Members Register.”
But unlike the “Member” of the Association, honorary life members shall have no voting rights in the Association.
Associate Member:
Any person who subscribes to the Aims and Objects of the Association and undertakes to abide by the rules and by laws applicable to him/ her, can become an Associate Member of the Association on payment of the prescribed fee provided that his/her application of Associate Membership has been recommended by at least two Members of the Association and approved by its Executive Committee; provided further that unlike a Member he/she shall have no voting rights in the Association.
Student Member:
Any regular student of Psychology, on his furnishing satisfactory evidence of his/ her being such a student and recommendation of at least two Members, or head of his/ her institution, become a Student Member on payment of the prescribed fee for such Membership, subject to the rules and by-laws made for this purpose from time to time, provided again that unlike a Full Member, he/ she shall have no voting rights in the Association.
Any Other Membership:
The Executive Committee may in anticipation of, or subject to the approval of the General Body, create any other category of Membership, provided that the category created shall be subject to the rules and by-laws made for this purpose.
Fees:
Rules and by-laws, to be framed later, and ratified by the General Body, shall among other things, prescribe the fees for different categories of membership, which may change from time to time according to price index.
