Nominate colleagues for Women in Psychology Leadership Award

APA's Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP) seeks nominations for its 23rd annual Leadership Awards. Through these awards, CWP seeks to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring that women are treated fairly both within psychology and as consumers of psychological services, and that women-related issues continue to be included in psychological research, education, training and practice.

Nominees will be identified as "emerging" or "distinguished" leaders in one or more areas of influence:

• Service provision.
• Scholarship.
• Public interest.
• Service in psychology.

The committee gives Emerging Leadership Awards to psychologists who have received their doctorates within the past 15 years, made a substantial contribution to women in psychology and show promise of extensive, influential careers. Distinguished Leadership Awards are presented to psychologists who have worked for 15 years or more after receiving their doctorates, have influenced women's issues and are recognized leaders in their areas of expertise.

All nominations must include a brief statement of support for the nominee that is no more than 500 words long, a curriculum vitae and three reference letters. These letters should address nominees' leadership activities and contributions to knowledge for and about women. Letters should also show how nominees foster understanding of women's lives and improve the status of women, including underrepresented populations of women, in psychology and society.

Members of CWP and APA's Board of Directors, as well as APA staff and individuals who are running for APA president are ineligible for the awards. CWP members cannot make nominations. Award recipients, selected by CWP in March, will be announced at APA's Annual Convention, Aug. 10–13, in New Orleans.

Nominations and supporting materials must be received by Jan. 31. Send materials to Gabriel Twose, APA's Women's Programs Office, at the APA address or e-mail them.

At its August meeting, APA's Council of Representatives approved continued recognition of clinical, clinical child, counseling and school psychology as specialties in professional psychology. A specialty is a defined area of psychological practice that requires advanced knowledge and skills obtained after the acquisition of core scientific and professional foundations in psychology and through an organized sequence of education and training.

In addition, the council approved continued recognition of biofeedback applied psychology as a proficiency in professional psychology. A proficiency is a circumscribed activity in the general practice of professional psychology or one or more of its specialties. Specialties may include several such proficiencies.

According to the policies of the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology (CRSPPP), these specialties and the proficiency will be re-evaluated for recognition before 2012.

For more information about CRSPPP and its recognition process, and for a listing and description of other recognized specialties and proficiencies, visit www.apa.org/crsppp or contact APA's Office of Graduate Education and Training at the APA address; (202) 336-5967.

The 2006 Division Leadership Conference will be held Jan. 20–22 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. This weekend of workshops offers information and resources that help division presidents-elect develop long-range and strategic plans, learn the nuts and bolts of division leadership and foster interdivisional ventures.

Members interested in forming new divisions or steering committees of proposed new divisions are encouraged to send a representative to this meeting.

For more information, contact APA Division Services Officer Troy Booker at (202) 336-6121 or via e-mail.

APA's Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs (CEMA) seeks nominations for the Jeffrey S. Tanaka Memorial Dissertation Award in Psychology, which recognizes work that contributes to a better understanding of psychological issues and concerns facing minorities.

To be eligible for the award, applicants must have filed their dissertations in 2003 or 2004 on research involving one or more of the following areas:

• Enhancing the psychological understanding of ethnic-minority issues.

• Improving psychological service-delivery systems to ethnic minorities.

• Developing new concepts or theories relevant to ethnic-minority populations.

• Creating methodological paradigms that promote effective research and understanding of the values, beliefs and needs of ethnic-minority communities.

A CEMA-appointed selection subcommittee will choose the winner through an anonymous review process. Criteria include the dissertation's impact on ethnic-minority populations, completeness, clarity, creativity and the effectiveness of the research design. The subcommittee will choose semifinalists from submitted abstracts. Semifinalists must submit copies of their entire dissertations for the final selection process.

The winner receives a nominal cash award, a travel award sponsored by APA's Science Directorate to the association's 2006 Annual Convention, Aug. 10–13, in New Orleans, as well as registration and an invitation to present the dissertation to the membership.

The deadline to apply is April 1. Applications should include four copies of an abstract that is less than 1,000 words. The dissertation title should appear on all four copies, although only one should identify the author and provide a mailing address and daytime telephone number. Send submissions to the Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs at the APA address. For additional information, call (202) 336-6029 or visit www.apa.org/pi/oema/programs.

APA's Public Interest Directorate invites qualified psychologists to apply for the sixth Adults and Children Together (ACT) Against Violence Train-the-Trainers Workshop. The ACT Against Violence Training program, a research-based national early violence-prevention initiative, prepares professionals nationwide to help families and communities to create violence-free environments for young children.

The three-day workshop covers the dissemination of child-development information; understanding roots and consequences of violence in children's lives; prevention skills such as anger management, social problem-solving, positive discipline and media literacy; program implementation and evaluation strategies; and fund raising.

Applicants should:

• Have organizational support to implement a program.

• Have experience in public speaking, conducting training and workshops.

• Have experience in consulting with family and child-service providers, schools or public health agencies.

• Work for local government agencies or community-based organizations.

• Be interested in community action and mobilization.

• Have interest and experience in violence prevention, family violence and child abuse.

The workshop will be held in Washington, D.C., March 30–April 1 at APA headquarters. The deadline to apply is Feb. 20. For more information or to request an application form, contact Julia Silva, Director, ACT Against Violence Training Program, at (202) 336-5817; e-mail.

APA's Committee on Accreditation is accepting testimony from students, faculty and consumers on all psychology training programs scheduled for 2006 site visits and periodic reviews.

A list of the programs scheduled for review and those applying for initial accreditation as well as instructions for providing comments and deadlines, can be found at www.apa.org/ed/accreditation. For details on providing testimony, refer to section seven of the Accreditation Operating Procedures at www.apa.org/ed/oprtgprcd.pdf. This information is also available by contacting APA's Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation at the APA address; (202) 336-5979.

APA's Committee on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns (CLGBC) is accepting nominations for two psychologists to begin serving terms on Jan. 1, 2007. The six-person committee serves staggered three-year terms.

Nominees should have experience or expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Policy and advocacy.
• Research with lesbian, gay and bisexual populations.
• State psychological associations.
• Youth, couples and families.
• International issues.

The committee welcomes nominations of ethnic-minority psychologists, bisexual psychologists, psychologists with disabilities, transgendered psychologists and other psychologists who are members of underrepresented groups.

APA requires committee members to attend two meetings a year in Washington, D.C., with expenses reimbursed by APA.

To apply, send a statement of the nominee's interest in, and qualifications for, the committee and a curriculum vitae to CLGBC Nominations, Public Interest Directorate, at the APA address, e-mail. The nomination deadline is Aug. 31.

APA's Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) is accepting applications for its fellowships in psychology and neuroscience. The fellowships seek to stimulate interest in ethnic-minority mental health research and mental health services by providing financial support and mentoring to doctoral students.

Four fellowships are offered:

• The Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Fellowship.

• The Mental Health Research Fellowship.

• The HIV/AIDS Research Fellowship.

• The Neuroscience Predoctoral Fellowship.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents enrolled full time in a doctoral program when they receive the fellowship. Mental health and substance-abuse services applicants must be in APA-accredited programs. All applicants must demonstrate a commitment to ethnic-minority mental health.

Fellowship applications are due Jan. 15. Download an application at www.apa.org/mfp or request one via e-mail or by writing to APA/MFP Fellowship at the APA address.

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