Green and Gray in APA
As part of his presidential initiative Gerry Koocher, PhD plans to establish a task force on "Green and Gray in APA". The goal of the task force is to generate ideas and plans for connecting psychology graduate students and early career psychologists (i.e., "green") with senior psychologists (i.e., "grey") in a range of mentoring relationships that would cut across areas of scientific and professional interests. Activities might lead to generating potential programming appropriate for State, Provincial and Territorial Psychological Associations and Divisions along with diverse educational, research and policy outcomes and web based networking.
Please forward this request for nominations to all boards and committees. Nominations for task force members (both "green" and "grey"), including self nominations should be sent to Elizabeth Kaplinski.
Please include a CV and a statement detailing the nominee's interest and experience. We ask that nominations be sent in by September 30 as Dr. Koocher is trying to have the task force meet prior to the end of this year, if possible.
Council New Business Items
The Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR) provides the following information to division officers to increase the awareness of and opportunity for division input to governance issues that are on the current agendas of APA boards and committees. What follows is a summary of new business items submitted between the close of the February 2005 and August 2005 sessions of Council. The Agenda Planning Group, which is made up of the chairs of APA standing boards, the Committee on the Structure and Function of Council, CODAPAR (representing division interests), the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice (representing state/provincial interests) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) reviewed the items and referred them to APA groups for consideration. Divisions are invited to comment on these items. Summary statements for each item appear below, along with a list of the APA boards and committees to which the item was referred. The board or committee appearing in bold has been designated lead group for the item. Division comments on each item should be directed to the lead board or committee at the APA address.
The board/committee acronyms used in the listing are:
BAPPI – Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest
BEA – Board of Educational Affairs
BCA – Board of Convention Affairs
BPA – Board of Professional Affairs
CAPP – Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice
CDIP – Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology
CODAPAR – Committee on Division/APA Relations
COLI – Committee on Legal Issues
CSFC – Committee on Structure and Function of Council
P&P – Policy and Planning Board
Item 31A: Convention Programming of Science Sessions
This item is a request for the creation of a task force to look at APA Convention programming in an effort to improve the Science Convention Program and better attract members to the convention and to APA.
Referred to: BCA/BSA, P&P
Item 31B: Requirements for Petitioning for a New Division
This item seeks to modernize the petition gathering process for the establishment of a new division by setting up a part of the members-only APA webpage for the express purpose of adding one’s name to a division petition. The system will allow for automatic verification of eligibility to sign the petition, thereby helping petitioners know how close they are to their goal.
Referred to: CODAPAR, BSA, P&P
Item 31C: Separate Slates for Board of Director Candidates Each Year
This item suggests that two member-at-large slates be designated each year so as to have diverse representation from the areas of education, practice, science and public interest. The motion recommends that the slates will include representatives for the two areas with the fewest representatives remaining on the Board in the following year.
Referred to: P&P, BAPPI, BEA, BPA, BSA, CSFC, CAPP, Elections Committee
Item 31D: NCMRR to Institute Status
This is a recommendation for APA to join the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research Coalition and work to support its effort to raise NCMMR to independent institute status at the National Institutes of Health.
Referred to: BSA, BAPPI (CDIP), BPA
Item 31E: Increasing the Number of Quantitative Psychologists
This item speaks to the concern that the supply of quantitative psychologists falls far below the current demand. The movers request the formation of a task force that will address how to attract more students and create more training opportunities in this area of psychology.
Referred to: BEA/BSA
Item 31F: Infusing the Association Guidelines in the Public Interest Which Have Been Adopted by Council for Psychologists throughout APA
This is a request for funding and establishment of a task force on the implementation of guidelines in the public interest throughout APA. The task force would be made up of representatives from the major APA boards and its mandate would be to formulate generic methodologies for infusion of past, present and future association guidelines in the public interest throughout APA and psychology.
Referred to: BPA, BAPPI, BEA, CAPP
Item 31G: Evidence Based Practice as It Applies to Applied Psychology Practitioners/Non Health Care Services
This item is a request for the establishment of a task force to develop a policy on evidence based practice for applied psychologists with relevant principles and references.
Referred to: BPA, BEA, BSA, CAPP, CODAPAR
Summit on Immigration - "Global Realities: Intersections and Transitions"
Through his "focus on family" platform, APA President-Elect Dr. Gerry Koocher plans to spotlight three areas that span all of psychology's constituencies, one of which is: Diversity in Psychology: "Our society is becoming diverse in ways that couldn't have been imagined 20 years ago," says Koocher, noting that not only are minority populations growing, but so are transracial marriages and international adoptions. "Psychology has the potential to help to move America in greater acceptance of multiculturalism."
Registration: available beginning 9/1/05 at www.Reisman-White.com
Early-bird Rate: $135 (before 12/15/05
Regular and On-Site Rate: $150 ( on or after 12/15/05)
Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Dr. Mary Pipher: clinical psychologist and an adjunct clinical professor at the University of Nebraska; NY Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and In the Middle of Everywhere in which she “unites refugees, people who have fled some of the most repressive regimes in the world, with all of us…”
Dr. Donald J. Hernandez: Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany (SUNY); had overall responsibility for the National Research Council report titled From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families and Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance
Dr. Carola Suarez-Orozco: is the Co-Director of Immigration Studies at NYU and co-author of Children of Immigration and Transformations: Migration, Family Life, and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents. She is also a co-editor of the award-winning six volume series entitled Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration.
A call for Conference Poster presentations is forthcoming through participating Divisions.
(Division 12, Section VI, Divisions 12, 16, 17, 29, 35, 37, 39, 42, 43, 45, 48, 51, 52, 53, & 54)
Location: St. Anthony- A Wyndham Historic Hotel, 300 East Travis, San Antonio, TX, 78202, Phone: (+1/210) 227-4392
Room Rate: $139.00 (single/double) before January 9, 2006
Sponsors: Ortho; SRCD (Society for Research on Child Development); CEMRRAT-2 (Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training), Division 45- Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Studies, Division 35 - Society for the Psychology of Women, Texas Psychological Association
Summit Co-Chairs: Toy Caldwell-Colbert, PhD – President of Div 45 and Cynthia de las Fuentes, PhD - President of Div 35
Continuing Education: Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) maintains responsibility for the program
Interested in International Psychology?
The Division of International Psychology (Division 52) is interested in interacting with division sections or committees organized around international issues in psychology. Dr. Frances Culbertson is the Division 52 contact person. She can be reached via Email.
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research - Call for Papers
The editor is soliciting papers for publication in the Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, a publication of the World Communication Association. JICR publishes qualitative and quantitative research that focuses on interrelationships between culture and communication. Submitted manuscripts may report results from either cross-cultural comparative research or results from other types of research concerning the ways culture affects human symbolic activities. Studies reporting data from within a single nation/culture should focus on cultural factors and explore the theoretical or practical relevance of their findings from a cross-cultural perspective.
Manuscripts should be no more than 25 pages in length, not including tables and references, and must conform to the stylistic guidelines prescribed by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Ed.). Papers may be submitted via hard copy or electronic attachment. Hard copy submissions must include three copies of the paper. Electronic submissions must be sent as an email attachment in either Word or WordPerfect. For all submissions, the manuscript’s cover page must include a title, each author’s name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and fax number. Author identification should include the author’s current affiliation, highest earned degree, the institution granting that degree, and the year granted. Following the title page, a 100 word abstract must be included.
Manuscripts deemed appropriate for JICR and that conform to the above guidelines will be subjected to blind review. Manuscripts that do not conform with the mission of JICR or the above guidelines will not be reviewed.
Hard copy manuscripts may be submitted to:
James W. Neuliep, Editor
Journal of Intercultural Communication Research
Department of Communication
St. Norbert College
100 Grant Street
De Pere, WI 54115
Electronic submissions may be submitted to Dr. Neuliep.
2005 CODAPAR Members
Ilene Serlin (04), Lisa Harlow (Co-Chair), Thomas Zentall, Frank Worrell, Martha Banks (Co-Chair),
Gary Brooks (04) and Kate Hays. Not pictured, Wayne Camara.
Division Services Staff
Troy Booker, Division Services Officer
Keith Cooke, Division Services Manager
Penny Harrison, Division Services Assistant
Sarah Jordan, Director, Divisions Services
Micheline Meyers, Division Services Coordinator
2005 Deadlines for
Articles for the APA/Division Dialogue
Please submit copy on diskette or via email to
Troy
Booker.
November/December : October 24, 2005
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