Division Dialogue Is
Going Electronic!
Dear Readers:
In an effort to continuously work towards cost savings at APA, Division
Dialogue is going electronic. This issue, May/June 2003, will be the last
printed issue distributed. Future issues will be available at the Division
Services website, http://www.apa.org/about/division.html. The next issue,
July/August 2003, will be sent to your email of record. Please notify
us should you need to correct/update your email address. If you are unable
to access the new electronic version, please notify Courtney
A. Leyendecker. We will send you a photocopy of the text.
Council
New Business Items from February 2003
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 August 2002 and February 2003
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 received via email (due to the early adjournment
of the February Council due to weather) 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
BPA - Board of Professional Affairs
BSA - Board of Scientific Affairs
CIRP - Committee on International Relations in Psychology
COLI - Committee on Legal Issues
Item 27: Rescinding Certain Actions Taken by
Council I August 1999
This item concerns recently discovered procedural difficulties for the
Commission on the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional
Psychology. It seeks to clarify the relationship between recognizing a
specialty area and the description of the area.
Referred to: BEA, BPA and BSA
Item 28: Ban Department of Defense (DoD) Advertising
in APA Publications
This item recommends that Council rescind the APA ban on DoD advertising
in APA publications begun in 1990.
Referred to: BAPPI, BEA, BPA and COLI
Item 29: Information for Potential APA Presidential
Candidates
This is a request for the development of an informational document that
provides details on the time commitment and financial impact on an individual
serving as APA President.
Referred to: Election Committee
Item 30: Orientation for APA Presidents
This item recommends that an orientation package be created for the benefit
of newly elected APA presidents including information on operating procedures
of Council and other governance units, limitations of authority tied to
the office, support personnel and other useful topics.
Referred to: Election Committee
Item 32A: Resolution on Culture and Gender Awareness
in International Psychology
This document is a reframing of an earlier position paper on the same
topic. Council is being asked to adopt this resolution.
Referred to: CIRP, BAPPI, BSA and COLI
Item 32B: Guidelines for Psychological Practice
with Girls and Women
This is a request for the Council of Representatives to adopt the Guidelines
for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women as APA policy.
Referred to: BPA, BAPPI, BSA and COLI
Item 32C: Discrimination against Lesbian, Gay
and Bisexual Military Personnel
The item is a request for a joint task force of Division 19 and 44 to
review the issues and report back to Council on the current status of
lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel and confidentiality issues
for psychologists in the military regarding their lesbian, gay and bisexual
clients.
Referred to: BAPPI
Item 32D: Proposed Resolution on Families of
Incarcerated Offenders
This resolution on the effects of incarceration on the members of the
offender's family is being proposed as APA policy.
Referred to: BAPPI, BSA and COLI
Item 32E: Diversity in Course Content, Publications
and Training Programs
This item requests that a report be provided to Council on the status
of diversity in course content, publications and training programs.
Referred to: BAPPI
Office of Teaching Resources
in Psychology
The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) operates under
the auspices of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP, Division
2 of the American Psychological Association). OTRP develops and distributes
peer-reviewed teaching and advising materials, and provides services to
psychology teachers in institutions such as secondary schools, community
colleges, liberal arts colleges, and universities. Documents include course
syllabi from dozens of courses and other pedagogical resources. Materials
provided by OTRP are all low-cost or no-cost, and most materials can be
downloaded (for free) from OTRP-Online, which is accessible through the
Society’s web site, http://www.teachpsych.org.
OTRP documents are authored primarily by expert teachers of psychology,
some of whom have received support through our annual Instructional Resource
Award program to develop their documents. Our resources cover a wide range
of topics and levels in psychology, and all resources—documents
and syllabi—undergo a peer-review process that helps authors develop
high quality, user-friendly, pedagogically sound teaching and advising
resources. Examples of our holdings include resources to assist undergraduate
majors with graduate school planning; writing letters of recommendation
while protecting oneself from litigation; using electronic databases;
compendium of PsyD programs; sensitizing students to research fraud; ethical
issues in teaching; informational resources on incorporating genocide,
ethnopolitical conflict, and human rights issues into one’s curriculum;
compendium of introductory psychology texts; annotated bibliographies
on a number of topics such as multicultural psychology and scientific
psychology; and many more. Project Syllabus holdings are ever expanding,
and cover a wide variety of courses, including cognitive psychology, health
psychology, personality, physiological psychology, psychological testing,
psychology of adjustment, history of psychology, psychology of peace,
research methods, sexuality, teaching, and others.
STP sponsors the Instructional Resource Award program, with OTRP coordinating
the process. Each year, proposals are solicited and submitted from faculty
across the nation who seek to complete projects that will form the basis
for the development of instructional resources, similar to those that
comprise the current holdings of OTRP. The Call for proposals and application
requirements are posted online, usually around September 1.
The application submission deadline typically occurs about February
1. We normally fund five projects at $1500 each. As the IRA Task
Force Chair, Tara Kuther oversees this program.
Undergraduate departments of psychology in need of consultants to conduct
program evaluations and related services can work with the Departmental
Consulting Service (DCS), which is jointly administered by the STP and
the Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) of the American Psychological Association.
Consultants can address general personnel issues such as how to encourage
faculty development. We attempt to match consultants to the needs of the
department requesting such services. Most departments cover the consultant’s
travel and related expenses, and offer an honorarium. Loreto Prieto
serves as the DCS Coordinator for STP, and Martha Boenau
serves as the DCS Coordinator for BEA.
OTRP’s Mentoring Service provides support for individual teachers
beyond that available in their departments. This service enables teachers
of psychology who have questions about teaching pedagogy or specific courses
to communicate with experiences colleagues who are willing and able to
respond or refer them to other sources of information. Mentors may be
obtained via OTRP-Online under the Member Services section. There is no
charge to STP members for this service. The service is coordinated by
Drew Appleby.
For more information about any above programs and resources, be sure
to visit us online soon, via the Society’s web site, http://www.teachpsych.org,
or contact any of the directors or coordinators:
Janet Carlson, Director
Christopher Hakala, Associate Director
Jeanne Slattery, Assistant Director
for Project Syllabus
Drew Appleby, Coordinator of the Mentoring
Service
Tara Kuther, Task Force Chair, Instructional
Resource Awards
Loreto Prieto, STP Coordinator, Departmental
Consulting Service
Martha Boenau, BEA Coordinator, Departmental
Consulting Service
SIOP Presents Annual
Awards for Excellence in I-O Psychology
The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology presented its
top honors on April 11 at its annual conference in Orlando, FL.
Nearly 3,000 people attended the three-day conference, which was presided
over by SIOP President Dr. Ann Marie Ryan of Michigan
State University.
Recipients of SIOP’s three major contributions awards were Dr.
Walter C. Borman, CEO of Personnel Decisions Research Institutes,
Inc. in Tampa and a professor of industrial-organizational psychology
at the University of South Florida, and Dr. Paul R. Sackett,
a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, who each were
presented the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. Dr.
George P. Hollenbeck, principal of Hollenbeck Associations in
Livingston, TX, was honored with the Distinguished Professional Contributions
Award.
Dr. David Chan of the National University of Singapore
received the Distinguished Early Careers Award for his “impressive
and significant research during the initial stages of his career.”
There were co-winners of the William A. Owens Scholarly Achievement Award,
given to the researchers for having what was considered the best article
published in I-O psychology in 2001.
Dr. Katherine J. Klein of the University of Maryland;
Dr. Amy B. Conn of Personnel Decisions International
in Minneapolis, MN, and Dr. Joann Speer Sorra of Westat
in Rockville, MD, were recognized for their article “ Implementing
computerized technology: An organizational analysis,” which was
published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Dr. Mark G. Erhart of San Diego State University received
the S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award for his dissertation on “Leadership
and Justice Climate as Antecedents of Unit-Level Organizational Citizenship
Behavior.” He earned his doctorate at the University of Maryland.
The Robert J. Wherry Award for the Best Paper at the IO/OB Conference,
which is an annual gathering of I-O psychology students, was awarded to
Damon Bryant and Dahlia Forde, both
graduate students at the University of Central Florida. Their research
was entitled “Detecting Differential Item Functioning in Multidimensional
Tests with Interfacing Abilities.”
Amy E. Colbert of the University of Iowa was presented
the John C. Flanagan Award for Outstanding Student Contribution to the
SIOP Conference as principal author of the paper, “Interactive Effects
of Organizational Support and Agreeableness on Interpersonal Deviance.”
2003 Biennial SCRA (Division
27) Meeting
The Society for Community Research and Action (Division 27 – Community
Psychology) 9th Biennial Conference, Incorporating Diversity:
Moving From Values to Action, will take place June 4–7,
2003, at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The Conference provides a forum for learning about exciting new work
from professionals and community members in all areas of community research
and action, including new contributions to theory, methodology, and practice;
implementing and disseminating innovative programs; and public policy.
Keynote speakers include Toney Anaya, social activist
and former Governor of the State of New Mexico, and psychologist Joseph
Trimble, an American Indian researcher and interventionist.
The conference takes place on the grounds of historic New Highlands University,
which is nestled at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Further
details about conference registration, including travel arrangements,
lodging, and information about conference accessibility, are available
at http://www.nmhu.edu/scrabiennial.
Persons or organizations wishing to exhibit materials at the conference
should contact Jean Hill.
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