Education in The Monitor - 2007
NOVEMBER
EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
• Adding psychology's
teachings to the mix
• Outcomes that
matter
• Taking psychology's
message to Congress
• Keeping psychology
in medical education
Teaching the teachers
TOPSS Summer institute gives high school psych instructors a crash course
in biopsychology.
Better living through
creative chemistry
APA's Catalyst program helps gifted high schoolers develop their talent by
exploring originality in the arts and sciences.
PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE
Congress's chance to boost
elder care
APA urges Congress to recognize the need for more integrated health care.
ASSOCIATION NEWS:
APA
seeks public comments on accreditation changes
APA's Committee on Accreditation proposes three changes to the Accreditation
Operating Procedures and welcomes public comment:
APA
helps teachers enhance their classes
APA and the American Psychological Foundation team with Clark University
to host a workshop for high school teachers of psychology
Test
APA's CE programs
APA's Office of Continuing Education in Psychology seeks doctoral-level psychologists
interested in testing independent study programs for continuing education credit.
JULY/AUGUST
The New Women Leaders
Special section
for students
Learn about tips and tricks of the profession as well as student-centered
offerings at the 2007 APA Annual Convention.
Psychologists
on Capitol Hill
This year's congressional fellows consider such issues as children's and
veterans' mental health, HIV/AIDS and education.
High school
students win behavioral science scholarships
Center for Deployment
Psychology opens
The Center will educate behavioral health specialists in providing quality services
for military personnel and their families.
Convention Highlights:
• A cutting-edge
convention
• Do observers
belong in the testing room?
• The psychological
challenges of gender reassignment surgery
• Pleasant
places, satisfied students
• Open forum
on APA Publication Manual
• Coming together
to answer tough questions
Honoring innovation
APA recognizes three graduate programs fulfilling unmet needs.
JUNE
Making sense of evidence and testimony
- Order in the court
The best way to educate juries on the pitfalls of eyewitness evidence? Teach
judges, say psychologists.
- To ask or not to ask
The practice of allowing juror questions gains momentum.
- The problem with
DNA
Forensic evidence increasingly includes genetic fingerprinting, but researchers
worry that juries put too much stock in the results.
Reauthorizing No Child
Left Behind
With members' guidance, APA recommends improvements to Congress.
Comment on programs up for 2008 Accreditation Review
APA's Committee on Accreditation (CoA) solicits testimony from students, faculty and consumers on programs scheduled for site visits and periodic reviews during 2008
Task force develops Web site on psychology's application to teaching and learning
The Task Force on the Applications of Psychological Science to Teaching and Learning met in March to finalize plans for a Web site for educators and parents.
MAY
View this year's meeting highlights
TOPSS
marks 15 years
Since 1992, Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) has worked
to provide a voice for teachers of psychology.
Sign
up for a continuing-education workshop at convention
At APA’s 2007 Annual Convention in San Francisco, Aug. 17–20, participants
can choose from 73 workshops, three pre-convention workshops and approximately
175 continuing-education (CE) sessions.
Article
focuses on psychology coalition’s education work
APA’s Coalition for Psychology in the Schools and Education has drafted
an article to be published in the March 2008 Psychology in the Schools journal
as part of a special issue on psychology’s contribution to education
APRIL
Operation cope and heal
A federally funded center is training psychologists to help military families and service members cope with the stress of deployment.
APA to investigate course design
PA’s Education Directorate is teaming up with organizations to rethink undergraduate introductory psychology courses.
Psychology as a high school staple
Adding psychology to high school requirements may benefit both students and the sciences.
A mixed bag
Here’s a look at proposed federal funding levels for programs affecting
psychology
Submit comments on proposed accreditation policy
APA’s Committee on Accreditation (CoA) seeks comments on a language clarification in it’s Guidelines and Principles for Accreditation of Programs in Professional Psychology.
Innovative graduate programs honored
APA’s Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) has announced the winners of its 2006 Award for Innovative Practices in Graduate Education in Psychology.
MARCH
Regional associations
initiate increased collaboration
"It was an opportunity to reflect and recognize the interconnection between the regional associations and APA,” says Robin Hailstorks, PhD, Education Directorate associate executive director.
APA's Committee
on Accreditation hosts first accreditation assembly
Professionals involved in the psychology program accreditation process gathered in January for the 2007 Accreditation Assembly.
APA seeks nominations
for 2008 awards
Nominate your colleagues now for next year’s Annual Convention.
Prepare for upcoming federal
authorizations
APA's Education and Public Interest Policy Offices will work together to
ensure funding for a variety of programs.
Comment on psychopharmacology guidelines
The proposed revision of the guidelines outlines postdoctoral education and training in psychopharmacology for licensed psychologists who seek prescriptive authority.
Board of Educational Affairs develops teaching strategies
The strategies provide evidence-based do’s and don’ts
based on available psychological literature and recent findings from the APA Teacher
Needs Survey.
FEBRUARY
The
Love Drug
IES-PERT
fellows move on to new challenges
APA/Institute of Education Sciences Postdoctoral Education Research Training
(IES-PERT) fellows complete training towards becoming the next generation of
school-based research psychologists.
New
APA center analyzes psychology employment and training trends
Cynthia Belar, PhD, executive director of APA Education Directorate, sees
the center as essential to advance psychology as a science and profession.
Comment
on proposed APA accreditation changes
The change extends the time students, interns and residents have to file complaints against accredited programs.
JANUARY
Opening up the bottleneck
PsyD programs look to create internships that help underserved clients.
Supplying therapy where
it’s needed most
A Philadelphia-based program matches psychology interns and students with primary-care
physicians.
Make connections
Psychology’s regional meetings will offer top-notch programming in 2007.
The psychological needs
of military personnel and families
The Defense Graduate Psychology Education program trains psychologists to
help troops and their families.
Method man
New journal editor Scott Maxwell wants methodological advances to be accessible
to all psychologists.
Comment on programs up for accreditation review
APA’s Committee on Accreditation is accepting testimony from students, faculty and consumers on all psychology training programs scheduled for 2007 site visits and periodic reviews.
BEA seeks national conference site proposals
The Board of Educational Affairs (BEA) seeks universities or colleges to host a four- to five-day
Conference on Undergraduate Education in Psychology in June 2008.
