Candidate Statements - Treasurer

Barbara Arneson Yutrzenka, Ph.D.

I am honored to be a nominee for Division 12 Treasurer. My credentials to serve in this position are embedded in the past 29 years of service to the profession as a clinician, scientist, administrator and advocate. After receiving my Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of North Dakota in 1981, I spent three years as director of the Emergency Services Unit within a comprehensive community mental health center outside of Richmond, Virginia. For the past 24 years I have been a faculty member in the Psychology Department at the University of South Dakota (which, I might add is the warmer of the two Dakotas!). I have directed our APA accredited clinical psychology program continuously for the past 20 years, which has involved managing budgets, advocating for/allocating resources, recruiting/retaining students and faculty, and encouraging/modeling/valuing diversity across all of these responsibilities.

I have been a member of APA and D12 for over 25 years. I have served as an officer in the South Dakota Psychological Association, as a Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology Programs Board member, and am currently on the SD Board of Examiners of Psychology. I am committed to the integration of science and practice as core to our discipline and am a strong proponent for increasing diversity in our science, practice, and presence/participation. I would welcome the opportunity to serve as your treasurer, to support the division’s mission and to work collaboratively with the division’s stakeholders to achieve its goals. Thank you.