Gerald P. Koocher

Special issue of the APA journal Practice Innovations, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 2020. Articles focus on innovations and challenges in private practice, including implications for telehealth during COVID-19, master’s-level practitioners, and retirement.

Practitioners should resist focusing too much on any single therapeutic tactic. Empirically validated therapies should not always override the therapeutic relationship, since each patient is unique.

Connect to an organization, mentor a student, join a division and take care of yourself.

I acknowledge the importance of their faith, but also note that children Joey's age worry about separation and pain.

Psychological science can provide important answers to guide policy, but the very nature of behavioral science data will often contribute ambiguity.

Many psychologists around the world have become members or affiliates of APA and publish regularly in our journals, but too many American psychologists suffer a kind of intellectual myopia with respect to clinical and research advances abroad.

Letters about ethics and interrogations, psychologists in the military.

Many members have written me expressing profound concern about media reports of involvement by mental health professionals in the interrogation of detainees held by the military in Iraq and at Guantanamo, Cuba.

We must remain ever mindful of the narrow scope represented in our own cultures, and always open to taking the perspective of others we hope to serve.

The benefits of mentoring know no bounds of age or gender, and require chiefly a willingness to give of oneself and learn from another.

Letters concerning prisoner abuse, interrogation and distance education.

Empathy, the ability to form an emotional connection, and forging an alliance with the client will create a far stronger foundation for change and quality of life than any treatment manual validated by a plethora of randomized clinical trials.

Nearly every division provides members with a newsletter, many publish high-quality peer-reviewed journals, and all offer opportunities to showcase your work or meet colleagues at APA's Annual Convention and at smaller topical meetings.

Any APA member who participates in torture or the degrading treatment of people, or who enables use of information gleaned in health or mental health-care relationships to the detriment of a person's safety and well-being, stands in violation of our ethics code.

Focuses for the year include immigration and immigrant families, diversity, early career psychologists and mentoring.