Apply for a Div. 12 award

Div. 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology) seeks nominees for several annual awards to be presented in 2007. 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 and who has made an outstanding contribution to the general profession of clinical psychology.

• 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 Stanley Sue Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Clinical Psychology, honoring a psychologist who has made remarkable contributions to the understanding of human diversity and whose contributions have significant promise for bettering the human condition, overcoming prejudice and enhancing the quality of life for humankind.

• The David Shakow Award for Early Career Contributions,honoring an early-career psychologist 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.

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

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

• The Distinguished Clinical Educator Award, honoring a psychologist who has displayed excellence in mentoring clinical psychology graduate students, interns, postdoctoral fellows and junior faculty.

• 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 deadline for nominations is Oct. 1. For award and application details, visit the Div. 12 Web site at www.apa.org/divisions/div12.

SIOP announces award winners

Div. 14 (Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology—SIOP) presented its top honors for excellence in psychology on May 5 at its annual conference in Dallas. Nearly 3,500 people attended the three-day meeting presided over by Div. 14 President Leaetta Hough, PhD.

Award winners are:

• Michael Beer, PhD, chairman of the Center for Organizational Fitness in Boston, who received the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award. Beer, an expert in organizational change and effectiveness, founded the Center for Organizational Fitness after a career in business with Corning Inc. and the Harvard Business School.

• Jerald Greenberg, PhD, of Ohio State University (OSU), who received the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award. Greenberg, the OSU Abramowitz Professor of Business Ethics, was recognized as one of the country’s leading authorities in organizational and procedural justice, a major topic in the field of management. By exploring how employees respond to unfair treatment, his research has shown that company practices have tangible consequences.

• Roseanne Foti, PhD, of Virginia Tech, who received the Distinguished Teaching Contributions Award. Foti, an associate psychology professor, was honored for positively affecting students in and outside the classroom. She earned Virginia Tech’s prestigious Alumni Teaching Award, a reflection of her passion for teaching, mentoring and industrial and organizational psychology.

• Janet Barnes Farrell, PhD, who received the Distinguished Service Contributions Award. Barnes Farrell, head of the graduate program in industrial and organizational psychology at the University of Connecticut, was recognized for her “tireless service” on behalf of SIOP.She has chaired five major committees and served on 10 standing or ad hoc committees.

• Filip Lievens, PhD, of the University of Ghent, received the Distinguished Early Career Award. Lievens was honored for his early-career work in understanding assessment centers, organizational attractiveness and perceptions of selection procedures. He has published more than 40 articles in influential journals and served on editorial boards of major international journals.

• Elizabeth Kolmstetter, PhD, led a team of colleagues at the Transportation Security Administration who received the Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace. The team was cited for establishing screening and selection systems that aided the Transportation Security Administration in hiring workers for the nation’s airports.

Cox elected executive officer of ABPP

Div. 22 (Rehabilitation) member David R. Cox, PhD, became executive officer of the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) in June. Cox is the president of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Consultants in Chapel Hill, N.C. The company provides services to people with psychological or physiological injuries and consultation on disability determination. He is past-president of the Florida Psychological Association, has served on the board of directors of the Brain Injury Association of Florida and is co-founder of HOPE, an Orlando-area support group for patients with brain tumors. In addition, he has served as vice president of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology.

Div. 29 offers online continuing-education courses

Div. 29 (Psychotherapy), in collaboration with APA’s Office of Continuing Education in Psychology, is launching courses on APA’s Online Academy, which will allow psychologists to earn independent study continuing-education credits for completing courses based on Div. 29 publications one vidence-based psychotherapy relationships and the technology of psychotherapy. The online academy also features courses based on recordings of selected APA convention symposia.

Current offerings include an article summarizing the landmark review organized by the Div. 29 Task Force on Empirically Supported Therapy Relationships, chaired by John Norcross, PhD, and an audio recording and PowerPoint presentation of the 2006 APA Annual Convention symposium “How to Treat the Hateful and Hated Patient.”

Visit www.apa.org/ce for more information.

—E. PACKARD