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To assist in your planning for the 2002 Convention, the programming sessions
have been categorized by dates:
Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday.
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Friday, August 8th
Re-thinking Workplace Violence
a sponsored event of The Committee on Women in Psychology
Friday, August 8, 8:00am-10:50am
Session: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Reception Hall 104B
Chair: Gwendolyn P. Keita, PhD, APA Public Interest
Directorate
Participants: Julian Barling, PhD, Queen's University,
Kingston, ON, Canada;
Mark Braverman, PhD, Marsh USA, Inc. Washington, DC;
Judith Collins, PhD, Michigan State University;
Joseph J. Hurrell, PhD, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health,
Cincinnati, OH;
Michael Gelles, PsyD, US Naval Criminal Investigative Service Headquarters, Washington,
DC;
Ellen M. Scrivner, PhD, US Department of Justice, Washington, DC
Description: This session, consisting of three
integrated presentations, will describe the prevalence of various forms of occupational
violence and present a model, developed by the APA Task Force on Workplace Violence
that offers a means for understanding this complex problem and examines various
types of workplace violence prevention.
The Over-medicalization of Professional Psychology: Issues
and Concerns
a sponsored event of The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the
Public Interest (BAPPI)
Friday, August 8, 11:00am-12:50am
Symposium: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North building, Street Level
Meeting Room 203B
Chair: Ruperto Perez, PhD
Participants:Forest Scogin, PhD, "The Underuse of Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions
with Older Adults"
Carolyn Vash, PhD, Viewing Disability through Differing Lenses: Medical, Political,
and Psychological"
Ronald T. Brown, PhD, "Medicalization of Children's Behavioral Problems: Patterns
and Perils"
Description: Invited speakers will discuss this
issue as it effects the various public interest constituencies (aging populations,
persons living with HIV/AIDS, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, children,
youth and families and women).
2003 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy
a sponsored event of The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the
Public Interest (BAPPI)
Friday, August 8, 1:00pm-1:50pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Meeting room 203B
Chair: Gwendolyn Keita, PhD
Invited Address: Louise Fitzgerald, PhD , "Sexual
Harassment: Reflections on the Distance Traveled and the Distance Left to go"
CONA Conversation Hour
a sponsored event of The Committee on Aging
Friday, August 8, 5:00pm-7:00pm
Social Hour: Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Public Interest Directorate Suite
Chair:Forrest Scogin, Ph.D., CONA Chair
Description: Representatives of APA Governance,
and Divisions, and others will be invited to discuss and develop effective strategies
to: (1) increase the visibility of aging issues both internal and external to
APA, and (2) promote greater awareness of psychology's contribution, through research
and practice, to the health and well-being of older adults.
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Saturday, August 9th
Treatment of Late-Life Insomnia:
A Continuing Education Program
This INTRODUCTORY workshop, cosponsored by the Committee on Aging, will review
normal sleep across the life-span, explore the nature of late-life insomnia, consider
diagnostic procedures (particularly in older adults), discriminate insomnia symptoms
from other sleep disorders, and teach empirically validated treatments including
sleep hygiene, stimulus control, sleep restriction, sleep compression, relaxation,
and cognitive therapy. The workshop will consider special cases including hypnotic-dependent
insomnia and insomnia secondary to medical/psychiatric disorders. Discussion will
also include a review of sleep medications, their therapeutic limitations, and
consider their appropriate use.
This workshop is designed to help you:
- Summarize normal sleep processes and demography of insomnia;
- Master multimodal insomnia assessment and differential diagnosis of other
sleep disorders;
- Utilize cognitive/behavior therapy for late-life insomnia;
- Appreciate the value and hazards of medical treatment of late-life insomnia.
Faculty: Kenneth L. Lichstein, PhD, University of
Memphis, Memphis, TN
Enrollment Limit: 36
CE Credits: 4
Time: Saturday, 8:00am-12:00 noon
30 Years of Passion and Progress: Committee on Women in Psychology
a sponsored event of The Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP)
Saturday, August 9, 11:00am -12:50am
Session: Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Manitoba Room
Co-Chairs: Ellen Cole, PhD, Alaska Pacific University;
and Lillian Comas-Diaz, PhD, Transcultural Mental Health Institute, Washington,
DC
Participants: Laura S. Brown, PhD, Argosy University/Seattle;
Lorraine D. Eyde, PhD, US Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC;
Arnold Kahn, PhD, James Madison University;
Martha T. Mednick, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Howard University, Washington,
DC;
Gwendolyn P. Keita, PhD, APA Women's Programs Officer, Washington, DC
Desciption: This session is designed to carefully
examine the issues outlined in the historic 52 resolutions presented by the Association
for Women in Psychology during the 1969 APA convention in Miami, which became
the driving force behind the establishment of the Committee on Women in Psychology
in 1973. Former and current CWP members will present the past, present, and future
directions for women in psychology related to issues such as employment, education,
practice, science, and supporting facilities.
The Impact of Psychologists ion Federal Policymaking: APA
Congressional and Policy Fellows
a sponsored event of The Public Policy Office
Saturday, August 9, 11:00am -12:50am
Fellows Symposium: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Meeting Room 205D
Co-Chairs: Ellen Garrison, PhD and Daniel Dodgen,
PhD
Participants: Catherine Cozzarelli, PhD, From
Academia to Public Policy: A Brave New World?;
Linda Demaine, PhD, Psychology, Law, and Public Policy at the Senate Judiciary
Committee;
Neil M. Kirschner, PhD,QMBs, SNFs and Notch Babies: A Hippie Banker Tour;
Mischa Thompson, Phd, Minority Issues in the Ivory Tower and on Capitol Hill;
Tamara Jackson, PhD, Intertwining Worlds of Science and Policy: So Different
Yet So Close;
William Wallace, PhD, Health Policy and the Executive Branch: Where the Action
is
2003 Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public
Interest Award (Senior Career)
a sponsored event of The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the
Public Interest (BAPPI)
Saturday, August 9, 1:00pm-1:50 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Meeting Room 202C and D
Chair: Hazel Markus, PhD
Invited Address: Claude Steele, PhD, ""Contingencies
of Social Identity: Their Implications for Achievement and Intergroup Relations"
The Impact of Poverty on Mental Health
a sponsored event of The Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the
Public Interest (BAPPI)
Saturday, August 9, 1:00pm-2:50pm
Symposium: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Meeting Room 206F
Chair: Melvin Wilson, Chair, BAPPI
Participants: Beth Hudnall Stamm, PhD, "The Biopsychosocial
Effects of Rural Poverty on Aging "
Maria Cecilia Zea, PhD and David C. Dove, "Poverty, health, and mental health
outcomes among HIV-positive Latino gay men"
Jose Toro-Alfonso, PhD, "Poverty and HIV risk among Puerto Rican youth"
Karen Wyche, PhD Presentation Title: "Impact of Poverty on the Mental Health of
Women"
Description: An overarching discussion on the
impact of poverty on the mental health as it applies to various public interest
constituencies (aging populations, persons living with HIV/AIDS, persons with
disabilities, ethnic minorities, children, youth and families and women).
CWP Leadership Awards at Division 35 Social Hour
Saturday, August 9, 5:00pm
Social Hour: Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Ontario Room
Chair: Jeanette Hsu, PhD, VA Health Care System,
Menlo Park, CA
CWP Chair Dr. Ellen Cole will present three CWP Leadership Awards. These awards
serve to actively demonstrate CWP’s commitment to ensure that women receive equity
both within psychology and as consumers of psychological services, and that issues
pertaining to women are kept at the forefront of psychological research, education,
training, and practice.
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Sunday, August 25th
Women and Depression: Etiology and Policy
a sponsored event of The Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP)
Sunday, August 10, 12:00pm-1:50pm
Symposium: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Meeting Room 713B
Co-Chairs: Carolyn Mazure, PhD, Yale University School
of Medicine and Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Participants: Deborah Belle, PhD, Boston University;
Mary Koss, PhD, University of Arizona;
Jennifer A. Bailey, MA, University of Washington-Seattle;
Veronica M. Herrera, PhD, Wellesly College;
Erika Lichter, MA, Harvard School of Public Health
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, PhD;
Meir Steiner, PhD, MD, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Description: In this symposium, leaders in the
study of gender and depression will review the most prominent explanations and
the evidence supporting these explanations, which was presented at the Summit
on Women and Depression 2000, sponsored by the American Psychological Association's
Women's Programs Office, with co-sponsorship from federal agencies, in October
2000 in Wye River, Maryland.
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