SCP ANNOUNCEMENTS
     


Education and Training Committee
Co-chairs: Scott Serviss and Natalie Monarch

The SCP Education and Training Committee focuses on providing educational and professional development opportunities in Consulting Psychology for SCP members and other psychology professionals with an interest in this arena.

We are celebrating the success of the 2005-2006 Distance Learning Series (DL), which offers Consulting Psychology educational/development teleconference seminars to all levels of consultants – from entry level to senior.  In 2005-2006 the DL program had enormous success and netted $6,495.  This success will help SCP to provide additional educational programs for our members and many thanks go to all of our esteemed presenters who make this program possible!

Thank you to Dr. Harry Levinson who is conducting the second series of a Mentoring Teleconference for new consultants.  Over the past year, Dr. Levinson, in partnership with the Education and Training Committee, has graciously provided 2 rounds of a 6-week case study review conference call for “green” consultants.  We greatly appreciate Dr. Levinson’s valuable contribution and also offer many thanks to E&D committee member, Dr. Toral Desai, for her coordinating efforts.

The 2006-2007 Distance Learning Series is underway!

Register now for the following teleconference seminars at http://www.apa.org/divisions/div13/InsideIndex.htm):

So You Want To Be a Family Business Consultant? Essentials for Neophytes and the Rest of Us
Presenters:  Jane Hilbert-Davis, Bernie Kliska Ph.D. and Mark Sirkin Ph.D. 
Date: November 9th, 2006 (3-5pm EST, 12-2pm PST)
$95, 2 CE Credits

Advanced Ethics for Consulting Psychologists
Presenters:  Rodney Lowman, Ph.D. and Stewart Cooper, Ph.D. ABPP
Date: December 1, 2006 (2-6pm Eastern, 11-3pm Pacific)
$180 Fee (4 full hours), CE Credits Pending

Action Learning
Presenters:  Skip Leonard, Ph.D. and Arthur Freedman, Ph.D.
Date: TBA
$95, CE Credits Pending

New to the Society of Consulting Psychology?  Past "Spotlight On Consulting" articles and issues of The Consulting Psychologist can be found here.

APA Education Leadership Conference: Results for the Society of Consulting Psychology
By Stewart Cooper

The recent APA Education Leadership Conference solicited the involvement of SCP as a Division of APA.  Representatives of about 15 Divisions along with many other groups involved in education and training participated. The conference focused on several topics germane to SCP and several positive outcomes resulted from our being in attendance.

  • Consultation was affirmed as one of six core functional areas to be put in place in the curriculum and training sequence of all professional psychology training programs.  Learning about consultation will be framed developmentally, i.e., entry to pre-practicum, practicum, internship, post-graduation, and lifelong learning.  A document outlining behavioral benchmarks on consultation and the other five core competency areas will be shared with us in the next two to three months for our feedback.  There seemed to be genuine interest in receiving this feedback from us.
  • The conference focused on techniques of assessment targeted towards increasing the formative and summative evaluation activities common to high quality consultation work, in this case focused on education and training.  New technologies for doing this such as web-based and use of in-time electronic responding were presented during the conference.  The concept of Continuous Quality Improvement was used several times as a buzz term for the goals of this enhanced use of assessment.  The central goal is to go to more of a competency model of assessment rather than a activities completed/time put in model.
  • Obtained a tentative commitment from the leader of Division 45, the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, to consider co-sponsorship of our upcoming midwinter conference given its focus on diversity and multicultural work in organization consultation.
  • Provided support for advocacy efforts to support the GPE funds that provide significant economic stipends to graduate students working with underserved populations, e.g., minorities, the aging, etc. in some type of applied capacity.

SCP Graduate Representative
By Melanie Flanders

Our accomplishments include:

  • Updating the Graduate Student Listserv which has resulted in increased use and communication amongst student members .
  • Collaborating with the Education and Training Committee to create reduced cost “seats” for students for the Distance Learning Seminars

SCP Award Winners

The award winners were announced August 2006 at the American Psychological Association conference in New Orleans . The winners are as follows:

  • RHR International Award for Excellence in Consultation: Jag Sheth
  • RHR International Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award: Victoria Davis
  • SCP Service Award: Ann O'Roark
  • SCP Exemplary Impact Commendations: Paul Ofman, Ann O'Roark, John Fennig and Vicki Vandaveer
  • Editor-elect of the Consulting Psychology Journal (starting January 2007): Rodney Lowman

APA Division Dialouge
By Troy O. Booker, Division Services Officer, APA

The September/October 2006 issue of the APA / Division /Dialogue/ is now online. To access this issue, please click here: http://www.apa.org/about/division/dialogue/.

In this issue of the Dialogue, you’ll find a letter from the APA President-Elect, election results for the APA Board of Directors, an update on the APA Psychology Department and the 10th anniversary of OBSSR, several calls for committee nominations, as well as scholarship and award announcements. For your added convenience, a Table of Contents is listed below:

Division News:  

  • APA President-Elect Asks for Common Theme at 2007 Convention

  • The Ballots are In!

  • Council New Business Items – August 2006

  • 2007 DLC – Mark Your Calendars

  • Using APA Listservs to Engage Survey Participants

  • Gearing Up for the Apportionment Ballots

  • APAGS:

  • DSRN Mission Statement

  • Apply for the Outstanding State Association Award

  • Leadership Opportunities in APAGS

  • Attention Students: Present at the 2007 APA Convention

  • Apply for a Spring 2007 CEMA Grant!

The Foundation:

  • Apply for Koppitz Child Psychology Fellowship

  • Apply for LGB Family Psychology and Therapy Research Grant

  • Nominate a Colleague for an APF Gold Medal Award

  • Nominations Sought for Distinguished Teaching Award

  • Millon Award in Personality Psychology Deadline December 1

Education Directorate:

  • Report on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing in a Developmentally Coherent Curriculum

  • Report from the APA Working Group on Internationalizing the Curriculum

  • APA National Standards for High School Psychology Curricula

  • Announcing the APA Psychology Department Program (2006-2007)

  • Block Grants In Support of Pre-college and Undergraduate Teaching Conferences

Public Interest Directorate:

  • Call for Nominations: Committee on Socioeconomic Status

  • 2007 - Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP) Leadership Awards

  • Committee On Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Concerns - 2007 Outstanding Achievement Awards

  • Call for Nominations to the Committee on Women in Psychology

Science Directorate:

  • OBSSR Celebrates 10th Anniversary

  • Supporting Human-Centered Defense Research on the Hill  

Practice Directorate:

  • Call for Nominations - COPPS and ACCA

If you have any comments, submissions or suggestions for future articles in the /Dialogue/, I encourage you to contact me.

National Multicultural Conference and Summit

National Multicultural Conference and Summit (www.multiculturalsummit.org)
January 24 – 26, 2007
Seattle , Washington

The Psychology of Multiple Identities: Finding Empowerment in the Face of Oppression

 

 Conference Schedule

January 24: Evening Opening Reception
January 25-26: Conference Programming

Go to www.multiculturalsummit.org for online registration and the most up-to-date information

We will provide a relaxed environment to discuss common issues raised during the Multicultural Summit.  Topics include:       

  • What are the shared concerns of LGBT and ethnic minority psychologists?

  • How can we foster cooperation rather than competition?

  • What is the role of social activism in our state and national psychological associations?

  • How can we move from victimization to empowerment?

  • How can we shape a unifying diversity agenda?