Explore with us: Travel to Cuba with APA in 2017
APA is organizing its fifth "learning partner" trip to Havana, Cuba, to explore the psychology community and to attend PsicoSalud 2017opens in new window, the eighth International Conference of Health Psychology, convened by the Cuban Society of Health Psychology and the National Group of Psychology of the Ministry of Public Health of the Republic of Cuba. The theme of the conference is "Working for the Well-Being of All." The four-day conference will gather participants from throughout the Americas and the world.
The dates of the trip are Oct. 27–Nov. 5, 2017, with an optional extension through Nov. 9, to visit the interior and east of Cuba and meet with university-based psychologists.
The program will include:
- Orientation lectures on psychology education in Cuba, the Cuban health-care system, and the history and status of psychology in Cuba.
- Visits to Cuban institutions, clinics and offices.
APA travelers will meet as a group in Miami on Oct. 26, 2017, for an orientation lecture and dinner. The group departs for Cuba the next morning. For the first four days of the trip, the group will stay in Old Town Havana to be immersed in Cuban culture and history. During the conference, the group will stay at the Palco Hotel adjacent to the Havana Conference Center. The optional extension to Santiago de Cuba after the conference will feature meetings with Cuban colleagues working in academic and practice settings in Santiago de Cuba.
Initiated in 2012, the APA Inter-national Learning Partner Program seeks to promote an understanding of psychology and psychological issues in countries outside the United States. The program advances these goals through international collaboration in research, education and scholarship.
APA presidential election: Members elect Daniel as the association's 2018 president
Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, associate professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, has been elected 2018 president of the American Psychological Association. She will serve as APA's president-elect in 2017.
The election was launched Sept. 15 and closed on Oct. 31. The final vote tally was:
- Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD
9,553 - Steven J. Reisner, PhD
4,941 - Kurt F. Geisinger, PhD
3,048 - Rodney L. Lowman, PhD
1,875 - Ali M. Mattu, PhD
1,161
Daniel is director of training in psychology in the department of psychiatry and associate director of the Leadership Education in Adolescent Health Training Program in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital.
In her election statement, Daniel emphasized that psychology has "extra-ordinary potential" to effect positive change and that she wants to "help move the discipline from potential influence to powerful influence." Her extensive background has prepared her to do that. Daniel has been an APA member since 1978 and is the first African-American woman elected president of the association. She served on the APA Board of Directors from 2005–07, and was named an APA fellow in 1996.
She has also served in many other APA leadership roles, including on APA's Council of Representatives, Finance Committee and Task Force on Adolescent Girls. In addition, she has served as president of APA Div. 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women).
Daniel's career has focused primarily on instruction, training and mentoring. Her contributions as a mentor were recognized by Harvard Medical School in 1998 when she received the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award—the first woman, the first person of color and the first psychologist to be so honored. She has since received mentoring awards from the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students, the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues and the Society for the Psychology of Women. Beginning in 2007, the latter award was re-named the Strickland-Daniel Mentoring Award.
Daniel received her PhD from the University of Illinois and was a postdoctoral fellow in clinical psychology at the Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston.
APA leadership: Interested in the APA presidency?
Members who would like to be nominated for APA president-elect in 2018 are invited to submit a statement of 50 words or less. The statement will accompany the online nomination ballot sent to all members. Statements are optional and not required in order to be nominated.
The deadline for potential candidates to submit a statement is Jan. 16, 2017.
The 50-word limit will be strictly enforced. Candidates are also welcome to speak to APA's Council of Representatives at its Feb. 24–25, 2017, meeting in Washington, D.C., and are responsible for their own transportation and lodging costs.
The nomination election will be conducted online and will begin Feb. 1, with a 45-day balloting period. For more information, contact Garnett Coad of APA's Governance Office at (202) 336-6087 or via email at gcoad@apa.org.
Internship news: APA offers advice on new overtime rule
New federal regulations on overtime eligibility that go into effect this month could have repercussions for psychology doctoral interns and internship programs. A new rule from the U.S. Department of Labor seeks to extend overtime eligibility to more than four million administrative, executive and professional employees by doubling the minimum salary for exempt workers (those not entitled to overtime pay) from about $23,000 to $47,476.
Psychology interns, who are still in training, may or may not be considered exempt from overtime rules, depending on determinations made by individual human resources departments that oversee their internship programs.
APA, working with an outside employment attorney, released guidance to help internship programs determine whether their interns are or are not exempt under the new rule and whether they will need to ensure compliances such as recording and limiting training hours to 40 hours per week.
Because "there is considerable variation in actual internship implementation, there may not be a 'one-size-fits-all' answer," APA's guidance says. "Rather, each internship (and each intern in each internship) would need to be assessed individually under this analysis."
Listen up: "Emerging psychologist": A podcast for students and ECPs
Squeeze in some professional development during your morning commute or lunch break by listening to "Emerging Psychologist," a monthly podcast offering news and career information for students and early career clinical psychologists, produced by the Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists section of APA's Div. 12 (Society of Clinical Psychology).
Episodes include:
- "Alternative Career Paths for Clinical Psychologists.
- "Diversifying Your Income as a Psychologist."
- "Making the Most Out of the APA Convention Experience."
- "Pre-doctoral Internships and the Applications Process."
Each episode also features news on grants, awards and service opportunities for ECPs and students. Listeners are welcome to share ideas or requests for specific content for the podcast, and the division is open to having graduate students and early career psychologists join the podcast team for discussions.
Send your feedback and ideas to div12sec10@gmail.com. Access the episodes on the Div. 12, Section 10 website https://div12sec10.org/opens in new window or via iTunes by searching "Emerging Psychologist."
– Compiled by Monitor staff