Fouad elected editor of Counseling Psychologist

Div. 17 (Society of Counseling Psychology) has selected Nadya Fouad, PhD, as the editor of its quarterly journal, The Counseling Psychologist. She succeeds Robert T. Carter, PhD, and her term officially begins with the publication of the January 2008 issue. However, she will begin accepting manuscripts much sooner; more information on this process will follow on the division’s Web site, www.div17.org.

Fouad is a professor in the educational psychology department at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and is training director of the doctoral specialization in counseling psychology. Her research is in the areas of vocational assessment, vocational interests and career development. She has also served on the editorial boards of four major journals, as associate editor for the Journal of Vocational Behavior and as president of Div. 17 and the Council of Counseling Psychology Training Programs.

Register for Div. 12 CE courses, apply for division awards

Div. 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) is offering nine continuing-education (CE) courses on Aug. 9, prior to APA’s 2006 Annual Convention, Aug. 10–13 in New Orleans. Select topics include “Treating Victims of Mass Trauma and Terrorism,” “Surviving the Politics of Academia: How to Get Tenure and Promotion” and “Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology.” For a complete list of offerings and a registration form, visit www.apa.org/division/div12/homepage.

The division also seeks nominees for several annual awards to be presented in 2006. They are:

• The Florence Halpern Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology,honoring a psychologist who has made distinguished advances in psychology leading to the understanding of important problems.

• The Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology, honoring a psychologist who has made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology.

• The David Shakow Award for Early Career Contributions, honoring a psychologist who received a doctoral degree no earlier than 1995 and who has made noteworthy contributions to both the science and practice of clinical psychology.

• The Theodore Blau Early Career Award for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Clinical Psychology, funded by Psychological Assessment Resources and honoring a clinical psychologist who has received a doctorate within the past 10 years and made an outstanding contribution to the profession of clinical psychology.

• Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, honoring psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology.

• Samuel M. Turner Clinical Research Award, honoring a psychologist who has made an outstanding contribution in applied clinical research.

• The American Psychological Foundation Theodore Millon, PhD, Award, recognizing an outstanding mid-career psychologist engaged in advancing the science of personality psychology.

• The Distinguished Student Research Award, honoring a graduate student in clinical psychology who has made exemplary theoretical or empirical contributions to research in clinical psychology.

• The Distinguished Student Practice Award, honoring a graduate student in clinical psychology who has made outstanding clinical practice contributions to the profession.

• The Distinguished Student Service Award, honoring a graduate student in clinical psychology who has made outstanding service contributions to the profession and community.

The Div. 12 Awards Committee selects all winners except for the student awards, which are selected by the Div. 12 Education and Training Committee. To be eligible for the student awards, recipients must be a doctoral student in clinical psychology—or a predoctoral intern—and a student member of Div. 12. Student recipients will receive a plaque, $200, a complimentary two-year subscription to the Journal of Clinical Psychology and a one-year subscription to Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice. Applications for all awards are due Oct. 1. Student award nominations should include a curriculum vitae and two letters of support detailing the nominee’s contributions to the award criteria. Other nominations should include the nominee’s name, curriculum vitae and a one- to two-page typewritten summary of his or her achievements and contributions. Send student nominations to Beverly Thorn, PhD, c/o Div. 12 Central Office, P.O. Box 1082, Niwot, CO 80544-1082; e-mail. Send other award nominations to Linda Sobell, PhD, c/o Lynn Peterson, at the above address.

Join Div. 22 mentoring program

Div. 22 (Rehabilitation) has started a mentoring program for minority students and early-career professionals interested in rehabilitation psychology. To kick off the program, the diversity committees of Divs. 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) and 22 will hold a joint breakfast meeting during APA’s 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans on Aug. 12 at the Ernst Café, 600 S. Peters St., 8:30–10:30 a.m. Find out more on the Div. 40 and 22 Web sites, www.div40.org and www.apa.org/divisions/div22.

Divs. 39 and 44 win interdivisional grant

In January, Div. 39 (Psychoanalysis) and Div. 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues) awarded an interdivisional grant to Dennis Debiak, PhD, Judith Glassgold, PhD, Scott Pytluk, PhD, and Shara Sand, PhD, for their proposal to develop gay-, lesbian-, bisexual- and transgender-affirming psychoanalytic curricula for undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate training. The project’s curriculum ideas will be disseminated via the Div. 39 and 44 Web sites, as well as through other outlets.

Through the Interdivisional Grant Program, APA’s Committee on Division/APA Relations annually awards small grants to fund the start-ups of collaborative projects sponsored by two or more APA divisions in order to enhance the divisions’ work, interests or goals.

Although the program is open to all divisions, collaborations must be approved by the president of the participating divisions.

The application deadline for the 2007 awards is Sept. 1. For more information, visit www.apa.org/about/division/divofficers.html or contact Troy Booker, APA division services officer, via e-mail.

Attend Div. 42 reception for hurricane volunteers

Div. 42 (Psychologists in Independent Practice) invites psychologists in independent practice who volunteered in the 2005 hurricane relief efforts, and those who live in the affected areas and continued to offer their services under difficult conditions, to attend a reception to honor their efforts. The reception, in conjunction with APA’s 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, will be held Aug. 10, 6: 30–8 p.m., at a location yet to be announced. The division will present volunteers with a special gift. If you plan to attend submit your name, home state and details on how, where and how many hours you volunteered to Tammy Martin-Causey, PhD, at via e-mail by July 31.

Div. 52 renames newsletter

Div. 52 (International) has changed the title of its official publication from International Psychology Reporter to International Psychology Bulletin. Each issue of the Bulletin will feature several refereed articles in addition to divisional news and other information of interest to the division’s 900 members and other psychologists around the world. The quarterly publication can be downloaded from www.internationalpsychology.net. To submit a manuscript, contact Editor Senel Poyrazli, PhD, via e-mail.

Help rebuild New Orleans with Div. 55

Div. 55 (American Society for the Advancement of Pharmacotherapy) is sponsoring a community service day in New Orleans, Aug. 8, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., in conjunction with Baptist Crossroads, a New Orleans organization that organizes community service. Service will involve light construction on new and renovated homes, and transportation will be provided from the New Orleans Marriott to the work site.

Registration is $15, which will cover lunch and water. Participants are asked to bring work boots or sneakers, long pants, a hat, sunscreen, hammer, measuring tape, construction pencil and other light tools.

To register, go to www.division55.org.

—E. Packard