Volume 37, No. 9 October 2006
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Monitor on Psychology Volume 37, No. 9 October 2006 |
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People In April, the Brown University Medical School department of psychiatry and human behavior named A. Toy Caldwell-Colbert, PhD, the inaugural Distinguished Alumna Visiting Professor in Clinical Psychology. Caldwell-Colbert is currently professor of psychiatry and vice chair of psychological services at Howard University Hospital and president of APA’s Div. 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues). Caldwell-Colbert’s activities as visiting professor include addressing psychology interns about her career path as an ethnic-minority clinical psychologist and academic administrator. She also will help faculty, administrative staff and the medical school’s diversity task force improve the recruitment, retention and training of ethnic-minority faculty, interns and research psychologists. This recognition builds on Caldwell-Colbert’s professional service with APA’s Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs as chair of the Commission on Ethnic Minority Membership, Recruitment and Training and independent consulting activities on methods for identifying ethnic-minority trainees interested in research careers. She will work with the Clinical Psychology Training Consortium at Brown and serve as a consultant on Brown University’s Institutional Research Service Awards from the National Institutes of Health.
On May 19, the University of Wyoming (UW) presented Edward A. Wise, PhD, with UW’s 2006 Outstanding Alumnus Award. Wise earned his PhD from UW in 1980. UW recognized Wise’s “distinguished career in psychology...as a tireless advocate for psychology...a prolific author of scientific articles and the founder of Mental Health Resources (MHR) in Memphis, Tenn.” As executive director of MHR—a private group practice—Wise conducts research in inpatient, outpatient, prison and other community mental health settings, practices full time, maintains an active caseload and supervises clinicians. Wise also serves on preferred provider organization credentialing committees, participates in state and local psychological organizations, consults with physicians’ groups and provides psychological services to prisoners in the criminal justice system. In 2005, Wise received APA’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice in the Private Sector. Wise is a consulting editor for the Journal of Personality Assessment, a fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment and an ad hoc reviewer for numerous journals.
In June, Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, received the 2006 Ticho Award from the Ticho Foundation and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Leary is the director of psychology andpsychology training at Cambridge Health Alliance and is an associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School. Her clinical and research interests focus on the role of race and culture in clinical treatment, supervision and in organizations. Other interests include interdisciplinary work on negotiation, mediation and clinical treatment and delineating the components of effective practice in clinical and supervisory contexts. The Ticho Award recognizes a midcareer psychoanalyst who has made significant contributions to their field and is continuing to write and conduct research. The award is named in honor of internationally renowned analysts and teachers Ernst and Gertrude Ticho.
In June, the University of California, Irvine (UCI) named Jennifer Skeem, PhD, the 2006–2007 recipient of its Distinguished Assistant Professor Award for Research. Now an associate psychology professor at UCI, Skeem studies violence risk-assessment, mandated psychiatric treatment and psychopathy to inform practitioner’s decision-making about individuals with mental disorders. The award is conferred by the university’s Academic Senate on those who have made significant contributions to their fields through distinguished research. Typically, one assistant, one associate and one full professor are selected for distinguished research awards each year, and Skeem is the first psychologist chosen to receive it in the past 11 years.
Robert Wicks, PsyD, professor and former chair in Loyola College’s pastoral counseling department, received the inaugural Widener University Graduate Award for Excellence in Professional Psychology in June. Wicks specializes in the prevention of secondary stress—the pressures experienced by professionals caring for victims of tragedy and trauma. In his clinical practice, Wicks works with psychotherapists, physicians, nurses, educators, relief workers and professionals in full-time ministry. In addition, he is a lecturer, workshop leader and consultant. In 1994, he was responsible for the psychological debriefing of relief workers evacuated from Rwanda during the country’s civil war. In 1993 and in 2001, he worked in Cambodia with other professionals. In 2006, he delivered a presentation on self-care at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to health-care professionals responsible for Iraqi war veterans evacuated to the United States with multiple amputations and severe head injuries. —E. Packard
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