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Sign up for National Alcohol Screening Day

APA and the College of Professional Psychology are proud to be among the sponsoring organizations of the first-ever National Alcohol Screening Day (NASD), to be held April 8 during Alcohol Awareness Month. NASD, a joint effort of the nonprofit National Mental Illness Screening Project (NMISP) and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), promotes awareness, identification and treatment of alcohol problems.

NASD will offer free screenings to the public at more than 1,500 community sites, such as hospitals, treatment centers, and private practitioners' offices and 600 colleges across the country.

APA encourages its members to register as NASD screening sites. Participating sites provide qualified health professionals to conduct the education and screening components. NMISP and NIAAA will supply instructions on how to organize and run the screening program as well as the necessary educational and screening materials. The packet of information materials will include a new Practice Directorate fact sheet on alcohol disorders.

Participants who attend the screenings view an educational presentation about alcohol problems, take a written screening test, review the test results with a clinician and receive a referral, if appropriate. The free and anonymous screenings do not substitute for formal evaluations, and no diagnosis or specific treatment recommendations will be given.

To register for the April 8 program, send a registration fee and completed form to the NASD office. To list your name or organization on the NASD Site Locator Line, please return all registration materials to NASD by Feb. 1. Late registrations will be accepted as long as materials last. However, late registrants may not be included in the site lists sent to local and national media. Each psychologist must handle publicity for his or her screening site.

To request registration materials, contact Anne Keliher, NASD Program Manager, at (781) 239-0071.

1999 National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day

Psychologists can sign up for the sixth annual National Anxiety Disorders Screening Day (NADSD) to be held on May 5. NADSD provides free, anonymous screening and education programs for consumers and their families who suffer from anxiety problems. Mary Guardino, executive director of Freedom From Fear, a national nonprofit mental health advocacy association, began NADSD to educate the general public about anxiety disorders, to help sufferers find appropriate treatment and to help destigmatize anxiety disorders.

Last year, mental health professionals throughout the United States screened more than 50,000 people at over 1,500 sites. Participants watched a video, completed an anxiety-disorders questionnaire, and discussed the results with a professional, who referred individuals to clinicians for subsequent treatment. APA has been an NADSD sponsor since 1995.

The deadline to register for NADSD is Jan. 31. For more information, contact Freedom From Fear, 308 Seaview Ave., Staten Island, NY 10305, (718) 351-1717, fax: (718) 667-8893.

Nominate for APA Treasurer

The Board of Directors solicits nominations for the position of treasurer. The term of the current treasurer will conclude on Dec. 31.

According to the association's bylaws: 'The Treasurer of the Association shall be a Member of the Association, elected by the immediately previous Council following nominations by the Board of Directors. The Treasurer shall take office for a term of five years, beginning at the end of the fiscal year during which his/her election is announced, and shall not succeed himself/herself in this office more than once. During the term of office, the Treasurer shall serve as senior financial officer of the Association and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed in these Bylaws. The Treasurer shall have authority to sign checks and drafts on behalf of the Association for disbursement of funds for duly authorized purposes of the Association as provided by Bylaws or by vote of Council or the Board of Directors. He/she shall deliver an audited report for each fiscal year to the Finance Committee and Board of Directors. The Treasurer shall chair the Finance Committee and serve ex officio, without vote, on the Publications and Communications Board. In the case of the death or incapacity of the Recording Secretary, the Treasurer is authorized to perform the duties normally assigned to the Recording Secretary.'

Any member of the association is eligible for nomination. Final candidates will be selected by the Board of Directors. The election ballot will be mailed on July 1 to all voting members of the 1998 Council of Representatives within a 30-day balloting period.

Nominations must be received by March 15. Please send them to: Ronald F. Levant, EdD, APA Recording Secretary, Office of the Dean, Center for Psychological Studies, Nova Southeastern University, 330l College Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314.

Renew your subscriptions now

Members and affiliates who have not yet renewed their APA journal subscriptions for 1999 should watch for renewal notices to arrive in February. If you have a question about your subscriptions, contact the Subscriptions Department at the APA address, (800) 374-2721, TDD: (202) 336-6123, fax: (202) 336-5568, e-mail: subscriptions@apa.org.

APA journal invites papers for special issue

The Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (JOHP) requests manuscripts for a special issue on 'The role of organizational behavior research on work-related issues of health and well-being.'

Thomas A. Wright, PhD, of the University of Nevada, Reno, and Russell Cropanzano, PhD, of Colorado State University will serve as guest editors.

This special issue will explore theory, research and methodology that highlights the potentially useful role of organizational behavior research to better understand the etiology of work-related issues pertaining to employee physical health and psychological well-being.

JOHP encourages submissions based on empirical studies that make new and significant contributions to the field, papers that address important conceptual or methodological problems,

advances in measurement techniques, and research on the physical health and psychological well being of traditionally understudied populations.

Send five copies of the manuscript with a disk and cover letter no later than Feb. 26, to JOHP, the University of Texas at Arlington, 701 S. West St., Room 622, Box 19313, Arlington, TX 76019-0313.

All submissions will be mask reviewed in accordance with the normal JOHP review process. Mention in the cover letter that the submission is in response to this call for papers. For additional information, contact the office at (817) 272-3514, fax: (817) 272-3515, e-mail: johp@uta.edu.

For additional information about the special issue, contact Thomas A. Wright, Managerial Sciences Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Mail Stop 028, Reno, NV 89557-0206, (775) 784-6011, fax: (775) 784-1769, or Russell Cropanzano, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1976, (970) 491-6001, fax: (970) 491-1032.

International travel award available

The Committee on International Relations in Psychology invites nominations for the David International Travel Award, which enables young psychologists with an interest in human reproductive behavior or other population-related concerns to participate in an international or regional congress. Qualified applicants must be graduate students or psychologists who have received a PhD, PsyD or EdD within the past five years and are willing to attend an international or regional congress between May 1999 and April 2000.

For more information, contact the Office of International Affairs at the APA address, (202) 336-6025, fax: (202) 218-3599, e-mail: international@apa.org.

Seligman award honors graduate students

In honor of Martin E.P. Seligman's pioneering contributions to the field of optimism and hope, the first Martin E.P. Seligman Award for Outstanding Dissertation Research on the Science of Optimism and Hope will be presented at APA's 1999 Annual Convention in Boston, Aug. 20-24.

The John Templeton Foundation created the $1,000 cash award for graduate students who complete their dissertations on the subject of optimism and hope and plan to continue such research for the future. The foundation will give the prize annually over the next five years. The prize includes travel to the APA awards ceremony in Boston and one day's lodging and expenses. The first award will be presented to a graduate student who completed his or her dissertation after spring 1994.

Barry Schwartz, PhD, a psychology professor at Swarthmore College, will chair the first distinguished panel of judges. Other judges are Steven Maier, PhD, director of the Center for Neural Science and professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, PhD, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.

'We envision this award as helping to `jump start' the field of positive psychology for the 21st century,' says Schwartz.

Interested candidates should submit six copies of their curriculum vitae and a summary of their dissertation research consisting of no longer than eight single-spaced pages (excluding references). The summary should contain a description of the:

 Problem investigated.

 Methods used to investigate the problem.

 Principal findings.

It also must include a discussion of the significance of the findings, especially in relation to optimism and hope, and of ways the work might be continued in the future.

All nomination materials must be sent to the John Templeton Foundation postmarked no later than Feb. 1.

A selection committee will notify five finalists no later than May 1. Finalists will be asked to submit a copy of their completed dissertation to the foundation.

Send all materials to Pamela Thompson, Director of Communication, The John Templeton Foundation, Five Radnor Corporate Center, Suite 100, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor, PA 19087, (610) 687-8942, fax: (610) 687-8961.

Psychology exhibition on tour

APA's traveling science exhibition, 'Psychology: It's More Than You Think!' will begin visiting museums across the country this summer. The exhibition offers hands-on activities on the psychological perspective of human behavior. Participants learn about psychology while testing their own abilities, such as memory, concentration, imagination, cooperation versus competition, how individuals think, plan or feel, and several other topics.

The exhibition is a compact version of a larger exhibition, 'Psychology: Understanding Ourselves, Understanding Each Other,' a joint venture of APA and the Ontario Science Center (OSC) in Toronto. APA developed the exhibition to introduce the public to the scope of 100 years of psychological research.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science displayed the exhibit from August 1996 until October 1998. The OSC is currently refurbishing the exhibit for its tour in 1999.

The tentative tour schedule is:

Aug. 1-Dec. 31, 1999

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC, (919) 220-5429

Feb. 1-June 30, 2000

Strong Museum, Rochester, NY, (716) 263-2700

Aug. 1-Dec. 31, 2000

SciWorks, Winston-Salem, NC, (336) 661-9453

Feb. 1-June 30, 2001

New York Hall of Science, Flushing Meadows, NY, (718) 699-0005

Aug. 1-Dec. 31, 2001

Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, CA, (619) 238-1233

Feb. 1-June 30, 2002

Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, VA, (804) 236-3622

All dates are subject to change. For more information about the itinerary, contact APA's Science Directorate (202) 336-6000, e-mail: science@apa.org.

To learn more about hosting the exhibition, contact Beth Porter at the Association of Science-Technology Centers, (202) 783-7200.

January 1999 Practitioner Survey

Abrief survey designed to collect current information on practitioners' views of a variety of existing and emerging psychology service experiences and opportunities will be distributed this month. The survey, which is being conducted by the APA Research Office, will be sent to a random sample of licensed practitioners in APA .

Should you receive the survey, we ask that you respond quickly to allow timely compilation and reporting of results.



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