Booth Materials for Convention 2004 Keeping Divisions Informed and Involved BCA Wants Your Help for Convention 2005 Convention Closing Session 2004 Fellowship Status Conferred on Eight I-O Psychologists SPSSI – Biennial Convention A Division on the Move The 26th Annual Running Psychologists Booth Materials for Convention 2004 As we prepare for the upcoming APA Annual Convention being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Division Services Office would like to inform you that we will have a Divisions Booth. With this letter, we invite you to submit materials your division would like to have on display. You may send membership brochures, applications, newsletters, journal information, as well as convention and hospitality suite programs. We are asking that you limit your supply to 100 copies of each piece. You may also send one copy of your journal as a sample display. If there are other pieces you would like to send, such as handouts for special projects or upcoming events, please feel free to do so. The Division Services booth will also display information for those divisions that will sponsor a hospitality suite. Upon checking in and receiving your suite assignment, please stop by the booth or leave a message for me at the Message Center with the suite number, hours of operation and location. All materials must be received in the Division Services Office on or by Friday, June 18th. When preparing your shipment, please remember to: Put your name and division number on the OUTSIDE of each box. List the box’s contents on the OUTSIDE of the box (e.g., newsletters, hospitality suite program). This will avoid having to open boxes before shipping to Honolulu. Complete the attached inventory sheet and return it separately. Ship materials to: For Non-contract divisions to Troy Booker and Contract divisions to Keith Cooke at: APA Division Services Office 750 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20002-4242 The Division Services Booth will be located in the Resource Center in the APA booths area of the Convention Center. The hours of operation are as follows: Tuesday, July 27…………………3:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, July 28……………..7:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. Thursday, July 29………………...7:30 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Friday, July 30……………………8:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Saturday, July 31……………......8:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Sunday, August 1………………..8:00 A.M. - 12:00 Noon If you have any questions about shipping or the booth operation, please contact Troy by email or at (+1/202) 336-6121 and Keith by email or at (+1/202) 336-6197. Keeping Divisions Informed and Involved At its March 2004 meeting, the Committee on Divisions / APA Relations (CODAPAR) discussed the importance of increasing the awareness of divisions in developing APA policies and resolutions, especially those that will have a direct effect on division members and division governance. CODAPAR feels strongly that divisions should have the opportunity to comment on resolutions in their areas of interest and expertise. Below is a list of March 2004 Cross Cutting Agenda items that CODAPAR believes may be of interest or concern to divisions. CCI – 1 Policy on Removal of Board or Committee Members Elected by Council CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to all Divisions. CCI – 2 Amending Association Rule Re: Filing Vacancies for Board and Committees CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to all Divisions. CCI – 3 Resolution on Families of Incarcerated Offenders (C/R New Business Item 32D) CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to Divisions: 9, 16, 18, 35, 43, 48, 50, 51, 53 and 54 CCI – 4 Draft Resolution on Bullying Among Children and Youth CODAPAR believes CYF should solicit input from Divisions 7, 16, 35, 37, 43, 48, 51, 53 and 54 CCI – 5 Draft Resolution on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to Divisions: 7, 16, 35, 37, 43, 48, 51, 53 and 54 CCI – 6 Draft Report on the Children and Adolescent Task Force of the Ad Hoc Committee on End-of-Life Issues CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to Divisions: 7, 16, 35, 37, 43, 48, 51, 53 and 54 CCI – 8 Resolutions in Opposition to Abstinence-Only and Abstinence Until Marriage Programs to Prevent HIV/AIDS Among Youth CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to Divisions: 7, 16, 35, 37, 43, 44, 48, 51, 53 and 54 CCI – 10 Determination and Documentation of the Need for Practice Guidelines CODAPAR believes that this item should be referred to all Divisions. CODAPAR's intention is to give divisions the opportunity to review items and express their views and concerns to their Council Representatives and/or the groups involved in drafting these resolutions and items. If you would like to obtain a copy of any of these items, please contact Troy Booker. CODAPAR is committed to the dissemination of information and the involvement of divisions in APA governance. It is CODAPARs aim to identify and distribute such items to divisions in a more timely fashion in the future. BCA Wants Your Help for Convention 2005 The Board of Convention Affairs (BCA) is beginning the planning process for the 2005 Convention in Washington D.C. We need your expertise in generating cutting edge topics for creative plenary programming. We are particularly interested in ideas for programs that cut across multiple disciplines (i.e., Psychology and Economics) or across multiple sub-fields in Psychology (i.e., neuroscience and adolescent development). Examples of the types of programs ideas we are seeking could include topics such as: New research on the impact of virtual reality on early adolescent behavior Career development and change after age 65, across all populations including gender and diversity. The Board of Convention Affairs’ program planning begins in May; thus, we need your replies by May 15, 2004. We are not requesting names of speakers, but rather ideas that are cutting edge, creative and that cut across/involve multiple disciplines and Psychology or multiple fields within Psychology. Please email the ideas you generate to Candy Won. Convention Closing Session 2004 Please join us for the Closing Session of the 112th Annual APA Convention. The third annual Closing Session will be held on Sunday, August 1 from 12:00pm – 12:50pm in the Kalakaua Ballroom at the Hawai`i Convention Center. The Closing Session, co-chaired by president Diane F. Halpern, PhD, and president-elect Ronald F. Levant, EdD, promises to be filled with exciting entertainment and presentations. Dr. Halpern will present presidential citations to the Business of Practice Network; Fanny M. Cheung, PhD; Jana N. Martin, PhD; Wilbert J. McKeachie, PhD; Dolly C. Sadow, PhD; and Michael Wessells, PhD. The president of the Washington DC Psychological Association, Barbara T. Roberts, PhD, and Dr. Levant will co-present a preview of the 2005 Convention in Washington, DC. The Closing Session will include musical entertainment from two groups: the Makaha Sons and Robi Kahakalau. The Makaha Sons sing traditional Hawaiian music and are known for their unique style of harmonies and their distinctive live performance. They have performed all over the world including multiple appearances at Carnegie Hall. They have also played for President Clinton on both of his trips to Hawai`i as well as for Vice-President Al Gore. A renowned hula troupe, Hula Halau `O Kawaili'ula, will dance to the music of the Makaha Sons. Robi Kahakalau is a third-generation Hawaiian musician whose multicultural, multilingual background is reflected in her music. Ranging from Hawaiian, to reggae, blues, jazz and R&B, with lyrics in English, Hawaiian, Tahitian, and French, Robi is considered one of Hawai`i’s most versatile female vocalists and has been recognized multiple times by the members of the Hawai`i Academy of Recording Artists. Please be sure to attend the Closing Session to enjoy her distinctive voice and musical talent that brought her to the forefront of Hawaiian music. Fellowship Status Conferred on Eight I-O Psychologists The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology has elected eight of its members to be Fellows, the society’s highest honor. Announcement of the awards was made April 2 during the annual SIOP national conference in Chicago. “SIOP Fellows have distinguished themselves by their outstanding contributions to the field,” Dr. Michael Burke, president of the 6,000-member organization, said. “It is a significant honor granted only to a small percentage of industrial-organizational psychologists.” Elected to SIOP Fellowship were: Dr. Janis Cannon-Bowers, associate professor of digital media and senior research scientist of the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida in Orlando; Dr. Jack Edwards, assistant director of social science at the U.S. General Accounting Office in Washington, D.C.; Dr. Paul Hanges, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Maryland; Dr. Scott Highhouse, an associate professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University; Dr. David A. Hofmann, the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar and associate professor of management at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Dr. Fred A. Mael, principal research scientist at American Institutes for Research in Baltimore, MD. Also, Dr. Pamela L. Perrewe, the Jim Moran Professor of Management at The Florida State University, and Dr. Howard Weiss, a professor of psychological sciences at Purdue University, were named SIOP Fellows. SIOP was established in 1982 and its members are dedicated to applying psychology to people in the workplace. Their field of psychology tries to understand and measure human behavior to improve employees’ satisfaction in their work, employers’ ability to select and promote the best people, and to generally make the workplace better for the men and women who work there. Cannon-Bowers, who has spent most of her career with the Naval Air Warfare Training Systems Division in Orlando, was awarded Fellowship for her innovative contributions in team training and performance and decision making under stress. Her work has been beneficial to those in military combat in making right decisions as a result of their superior training. Edwards was cited for his “truly significant impact on public policy through surveys and evaluation of very visible, high-stakes, large-scale government and military human resource programs.” Hanges was recognized for his outstanding work in several areas including catastrophic analysis, stereotype bias in ratings, test banding, cross cultural leadership and multilevel issues in data analysis research. Highhouse was cited for his research in decision-making in the workplace, including company reputation, choosing a job, applicant recruitment practices and for his emerging work with non-traditional applicant populations. Hofmann was elected a Fellow for his work in hierarchical linear modeling and its effect on industrial and organizational psychology studies in multilevel and longitudinal issues. He was also cited for his focus on the psychology of workplace safety in the context of leadership and climate. Mael was honored for his influential work in diagnostic organizational surveys and feedback in a variety of areas including employee selection, training, loyalty, performance management and coaching. He has also contributed to a better understanding of issues relating to spirituality in the workplace. Perrewe has done extensive research on occupational stress. She was cited for her pioneering work in occupational health psychology, blending industrial, organizational, clinical and health psychology with public health issues. Her research has also focused on occupational stress, personality and organizational politics. Weiss was recognized for his “long and distinguished record of scholarly and creative research, thinking and writing,” especially in social learning in organizations, personality and organizational behavior and emotions at work. For more information, contact Clif Boutelle, SIOP Information, at 419-353-0032, or email. SPSSI – Biennial Convention The fifth biennial convention of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues will explore implications of societal diversity from a research, social policy, and social action perspective. The conference program will incorporate international representation and perspectives on a broad array of topics that incorporate racial, sexual, gender, developmental, physical, and cultural diversity. More details about the Convention can be found going to http://spssi.org/about.html.com. Convention Registration SPSSI Members, click here to register online. If you are not a SPSSI member, click here to register online. To download the convention registration PDF file, click here. If you are unable to click on the link, please visit the SPSSI website at http://www.spssi.org. Please don't register online if you have already sent your Convention registration payments by snail mail. For any questions, please call SPSSI Central Office at (+1/202)-675-6956 or email. A Division on the Move There are many exciting things happening in the Child, Youth and Family Services Division, which is Division 37. The presidential initiative of Luis Vargas, Division President is Access, engagement, and intervention in Mental Health Services to Minority, Low SES children: Training, Policy, and Services. The Advocate, the Division newsletter, continues to have articles on state-of-the–art policy issues concerning mental health services for children and families. Our 2004 convention programming includes symposia on “Online Counseling With Latino Adolescents in a Rural Community,” “Systems Perspective for Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Youth,” “Omissions, Commissions, and Credibility: The Plight of the Child Witness,” “Improving the Community Response to Child Abuse Victims,” “Tripartite Resilience Model---Applications and Implications for Underserved Youth,” and “Delivery of Mental Health Services for Youth Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Their Families.” These are all reflective of the Division mission, commitment to the application of psychological knowledge to advocacy, service delivery, and public policies affecting children, youth, and families. Award recipients are John Weisz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at University of California at Los Angeles for the Nicholas Hobbs Award and Virginia Weisz, J.D., Public Counsel, Los Angeles, Directing Attorney, Children’s Rights for the Child Advocacy Award. Division members have been active in forming task forces and presenting information about key policy and advocacy issues for children and families. Division 37 sponsors the Interdivisional Task Force on Children’s Mental Health, which where members from several divisions representing children and their families work in cooperation with APA leadership to enhance understanding of children’s mental health needs and disseminate information about prevention and treatment, with a goal of improving the use of evidence-based interventions. Additionally, division members serve on the Interdivisional Coalition sponsored by the Education Directorate at APA called the Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education (CFPSE). This group of psychologists is interested in contributing to the quality of education for our nation’s youth congruent with APA’s mission to improve the lives of children in our schools. We also have representation on the APA Task Force on Immigrant Children, Youth and Families. The Section on Child Maltreatment, remains and active and exciting group within Division 37, writing legal briefs and addressing research and practice issues related to abuse and neglect of children and adolescents. The Section on Child Maltreatment has several other projects including The Section Newsletter and The Section Alert (up-to-date information on funding for research and treatment innovations), and Section members also may participate in a policy and an internship network. The 26th Annual Running Psychologists: APA 5K Ray's Race and Walk The annual race and walk at the 2004 Honolulu Convention of APA will be held on Saturday morning, July 31st, at 7 A.M. The race will be held on the Kapliani Trail near Waikiki Beach, walking distance from the major hotels. More details will appear in the APA Monitor on Psychology, the Division 47 web site (http://www.APA47.org), and in your convention packet. If you pre-register, you will be notified via email or post. Trophies will be awarded to the overall men’s and women's winners and to the top three in each 5-year age group, from under 25 to over 75. The top three male and female finishers who hold membership in Division 47 will receive awards. The top three finishers who are current Psi Chi members also will receive awards, as will the top three current Psi Chi National Council members. To honor the exhibitors at our meeting who provide excellent raffle prizes for us, a special award also will be given to the highest finishing male and female exhibitor. Pre-registration will run until July 23rd, which means that the entry form and fee must be received by that date. Please give us all the requested information including age and gender so that the race numbers can be labeled appropriately and save us time in determining your category for the results. THE ENTRY FEE FOR PRE-REGISTERED RUNNERS IS $20.00, which includes a commemorative t-shirt, raffle chance, and post-race refreshments. PAST July 23RD, CONVENTION AND DAY-OF-RACE, REGISTRATION FEE IS $25.00. Pre-registration for students is $10.00 and convention/day-of-race student registration is $14.00. PLEASE pre-register to help us avoid too many convention and day-of-race registrations. Make your check payable to: Running Psychologists. Click here for the registration form in Adobe pdf. 2004 CODAPAR Members Lisa Harlow, Gary Brooks, Martha Banks, Frank Worrell, Ilene Serlin (Chair), and Thomas Zentall Division Services Staff Troy Booker, Division Services Officer Laura Anibal Braceland, Division Services Coordinator Keith Cooke, Division Services Manager Penny Harrison, Division Services Assistant Sarah Jordan, Director, Divisions Services 2004 Deadlines for Articles for the APA/Division Dialogue Please submit copy on diskette or via email to Troy Booker. July/August 2004: June 28, 2004 September/October 2004: August 23, 2004 November/December 2004: October 25, 2004 Back to May/June homepage