Membership in SPPA enhances your professional growth, your colleagues, and people in the performing arts. SPPA membership provides you with access to peer-reviewed scientific and clinical publications which examine many aspects in performing arts. By joining SPPA you will have opportunities to advance quality of life in the performing arts field by voicing your concerns in many different ways:

• Performing Arts Psychology Connections online newsletter, which includes information to keep you up to date on recent trends in the discipline, notice of other related events and other information.
• Early notice of SPPA scientific/arts meetings
• Inclusion in and access to the online membership directory, featuring complete listings of all SPPA members alphabetically, geographically and by specialty.
• Opportunities to advocate for better legislation and/or regulatory practices to improve the environment for performing arts training at collegiate, high school, and elementary school levels.
• Notification about Performing Arts Psychology research funding opportunities and deadlines
• Opportunity to work to elevate standards of performing arts training by developing and disseminating position statements and guidelines.
• SPPA Membership Certificate.
• Continuing Education Opportunities at the annual meeting, which offer numerous symposia, comprehensive lectures, performance opportunities, poster sessions, and exhibits. It is designed to appeal to a wide spectrum of performing artists, music teachers, specialists and others with these interests.
• Professional Development Courses: half-day in-depth sessions presenting the latest in performing psychological research applications to clinical practice.
• Special Interest Groups to allow members from all disciplines to gather together and exchange views on areas of common interest. Special Interest Groups meet at the Annual Meeting.
• Networking Opportunities at the annual meeting, in regional activities, committees, task forces, and other informal gatherings.

• The Journal of Psychology in the Performing Arts (coming soon), an online journal that contains a comprehensive collection of scholarly articles and elucidates most current issues with commentaries on controversial subjects.
• Significant savings on registration for SPPA scientific meetings and discounts for other organizational meetings with which we form a professional relationship.
• Principles in Treatment of Performing Arts Related Problems, a regularly updated reference guide offering concise descriptions of appropriate interventions, variations in presenting problems among performers, rapid treatment of acute performing arts problems.

• Affiliate with up to two Committees.
• Mentor young healthcare professionals and beginning investigators.
• Eligible to hold positions such as national science officer, board member, panel member, journal editor, etc.