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2004 Fellows Announced |
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Division News and Notes |
Ilene Serlin, PhD, Fellows Committee |
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It gives us great pleasure to announce that the following members of Division 42 were approved Division 42’s Fellows Committee and Board of Directors as well as by the APA Board of Directors and APA’s Council of Representatives at the August, 2004 meeting for their outstanding leadership in the field of independent practice: During a twenty-year career, Dr. Jana Martin has demonstrated outstanding contributions to the profession of psychology and the independent practice of psychology. Her creative leadership has been most prominently in the areas of public education and appropriate placement and provision of mental health services for children, youth and their families. Her work has been both highly visible and also behind the scenes, showing her belief in the power of grassroots advocacy to effect change. Dr. Martin played a primary role in establishing the State of Mississippi’s first adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit as well as its first adolescent boy’s group home. She created a model of active advocacy through the State’s courts and legislature to ensure appropriate standards for hospitalization and to ensure adequate program funding. From 1985 to 1986, she served as Director of the Runaway, Homeless, and Missing Youth Program of the Mississippi Children’s Home Society. Dr. Martin also created a number of public education programs that have brought mental health awareness and treatment accessibility for typically underserved populations. Dr. Martin coordinated a multi-year effort among five chapters of the California Psychological Association which focused on public education, a media campaign, an information and referral service, and improved chapter working relationships. The formation of this group and its efforts led to receipt of one of the first APA Practice Directorate Campaign Assistance Program grants.Dr. Martin has successfully served as President of the Los Angeles Psychological Association and the California Psychological Association. Dr. Martin also has demonstrated national leadership in APA’s Public Education Campaign on Resilience, leading numerous forums and workshops, consulting on materials used in the campaign, and participating in interviews to improve the public’s knowledge of how psychologists can help the public can become more resilient. Dr. John Northman has demonstrated over a decade of effective leadership and professional advocacy and legislative contributions at local, state and federal levels. While President of the Psychological Association of Western New York in the late 1980’s, he organized and led its members in a successfully settled class action lawsuit against Blue Cross, and was then appointed as one of two psychologists by the APA Committee on Professional Practice and Standards (COPPS) which worked through the Practice Directorate to develop APA’s Child Custody Evaluation Guidelines. Dr. Northman was also instrumental in the recent enactment of statutory scope of practice language for psychology in New York, which successfully challenged the powerful Medical Society of the State of New York, while putting in place a solid psychology licensing law benefiting both practicing psychologists and consumers. Under his leadership, in 1994 the New York State Psychological Association established a coalition of professional organizations and consumer groups called the “Campaign for Quality and choice in Managed health Care,” which led to “exemplary managed care legislation” enacted in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Because of his successful contribution in all these roles, Dr. Northman won the award for exceptional service from the New York State Psychological Association, the Allen Williams Memorial Award from the New York State Psychological Association, a Distinguished Practitioner award from the National Academy of Practice, a Distinguished Achievement award from the Psychological Association of Western New York, APA’s Karl F. Heiser Award for Advocacy in 1998 and APA’s Presidential Citation in 2001. Nina Thomas, PhD, ABPP, has been active in professional psychology for over a quarter of a century providing clinical services, teaching, supervision and research in the areas of trauma and the impact of war, ethnic violence and state-sponsored repression on the state, national and international level, as well as significant service and leadership at the state and national levels. In addition, she has been recognized for her leadership and contributions with awards from her state and other organizations, and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice for her significant contributions to healthcare policy. Dr Thomas is probably best known for work in the areas of trauma, having written/presented over 22 articles on this subject alone, including many addresses at international conferences. She is the Co-Coordinator of a new, innovative program within the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: Training Center for Trauma and Disaster Intervention. She has published and presented many other significant papers and has many other presentations at professional conferences in addition to her work on trauma. Since 1997 she has been traveling to Bosnia on numerous occasions, at her own expense, to provide training, supervision and consultation to a variety of mental health service providers on working in the aftermath of trauma. The Monitor twice featured her work, which serves both as a testament to its importance and her importance as a role model for all of us. Dr Thomas has also been a leader within the field of psychology. She was Chair of the Public Information Committee and subsequently a member of the Advisory Committee to the Public Education Campaign that helped shape the message “Talk to someone who can help.” Dr Mary O’Leary Wiley’s innovative and sustained contributions in clinical work, research and advocacy relative to adoption, as well as her scientific and editorial contributions and professional leadership meet Division 42’s criteria for Fellow status. Dr. Wiley is widely known for her work on adoption, a topic on which she has published and lectured extensively. Her publications include co-authorship of a special section of The Counseling Psychologist (TCP) on the issue, and she has earned a national profile as an advocate and consultant for adoption agencies nationwide. Dr. Wiley has served the Washington D.C.-based Adoption Therapy Coalition as Board President, and has founded a non-profit organization in her area, The Center for Adoption Education of Central Pennsylvania. In the aggregate, her work on adoption has had a significant and enduring impact on both the profession and the culture. She has accomplished this by bringing to light new insights that have revolutionized the profession’s understanding of this important issue, and making contributions through her writing and advocacy that have dramatically improved the lives of innumerable American families where adoption is an issue. Dr. Wiley initiated a new section on the integration of science and practice for a major APA journal, The Counseling Psychologist (TCP). This change has had a marked impact on the profile of the journal among scientists, as well as an enhanced utility for practitioners. Dr. Wiley’s service to APA governance has primarily been in the capacity of Vice President for Professional Practice in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology). In that position, Dr. Wiley revitalized the Division’s Section on Independent Practice, created a vital Practice Stakeholders’ Group, and served as liaison from the Division to CAPP and BPA. A current project of great importance is her leadership of a coalition to offer a CE workshop on APA’s Multicultural Guidelines at Convention in 2004. In addition, Division 42 Fellows Committee is pleased to recommend the following Old Fellows for Fellows status in Division 42: Barry Anton, Ph.D exemplifies outstanding contribution to the field of psychotherapy and the practice of professional psychology at the state, national and international levels as an academic teacher and practitioner of psychology. Since 1985, he has been a Professor of Psychology at the University of Puget Sound. He has recently co-edited a book called Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice (forthcoming Oxford Press). He is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Rainer Behavioral Health, PLLC, a multi-disciplinary mental health practice that employs 15 psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers. Here he supervises post-doctoral trainees in child, adolescent and adult psychology in a private practice setting. At the state level, Dr. Anton was on the Executive Board of the Washington State Psychological Association, and Chair of the Government and Legal Affairs Committee. At the national level, Dr. Anton is a Fellow of Divisions 12, 31 and 53. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Association, served as Council Representative from 1998-2002, was Co-Chair of APA’s Presidential Task Force on Expanding Opportunities for Practicing Psychologists, has been Treasurer and an officer of the Association for Practicing Psychologists from 2000-2002, and served on the Board of Professional Affairs. At the international level, Dr. Anton served as a site visitor in Poland and Grenada, and led a delegation of psychologists to China. Elena Eisman, Ph.D, has spent her whole career in the pursuit of independent practice opportunities for psychologists and the training of professional psychologists. An outstanding advocate on the state and national levels, she served on the legislative and other committees in the Massachusetts Psychological Association in the areas of practice issues; ethics, managed care; programming, and women’s issues, and then became a representative to outside groups such as professional advisory committees. She earned two diplomats from the ABPP, one of which she helped found as part of the original group that grew into the Academy of Family Therapy. As a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Eisman served as an examiner and a first evaluator of the Assessment Center model of ABPP exams in Clinical Psychology, and was an examiner for the Family Diplomate. As a Council Representative to the American Psychological Association, she was recognized for her interest in practice through election to BPA, where she became Chair, and to CAPP. She brings her expertise in psychological assessment and specialty training to CRSPPP and is serving her second term as Chair of that group, as well as representing APA on CCOPP. She has published much of this work in juried APA journals or through the APA Practice and Education Directorate. Dr. Eisman is currently the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, where she has also served as the Director of Professional Affairs. She has received the Karl Heiser award for state level advocacy from APA and the 2000 leadership award from the State Leadership Conference, and is a Fellow of Division 31 of APA. Dr. Beverly Greene is a Professor of Psychology at St. John’s University in Brooklyn, NY. Her scholarship focuses primarily on the intersections of race/ethnicity and sexual orientation relative to a wide range of social issues and the practice of psychotherapy. Dr. Greene is, without question, the most prolific writer and theoretician with regard to issues of African American lesbians and gay men, and her work has informed public policy, legal advocacy and professional training for over two decades. Despite a demanding lecturing and writing schedule, Dr. Greene has always maintained a practice, and a strong commitment to the education and training of psychologists. In short, her work is one of the foundation cornerstones of diversity issues in psychology, and we are both fortunate and delighted to welcome her to the Division 42 Fellows Committee. Kirk Schneider, Ph.D, is a leading spokesman of contemporary humanistic psychology and a Fellow of Division 32 of the American Psychological Association. He is the President of the Existential Humanistic Institute and maintains a private practice in San Francisco, where he supervises interns and trains students. Dr. Schneider has published over 70 articles and chapters and five books, including The Paradox of Existence: An Integrative, Clinical Perspective (with R. May); The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Leading Edges in Theory, Research and Practice (with J. Bugental and F. Pierson); and Rediscovery of Awe. He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, The Humanistic Psychologist, The Review of Existential Psychiatry and Psychology, Person-Centered and Experiential Psychology, The Society for Laingian Studies, and the International Journal of Existential Psychiatry and Psychology. In 2004, Dr. Schneider received the Rollo May award for “outstanding and independent pursuit of new frontiers in humanistic psychology” from Division 32 of APA. Peter Sheras exemplifies the best of a commitment to practice, by bringing a scholarly and research grounding to his clinical work. For example, he is currently a Professor of Education in the Clinical and School Psychology department of the University of Virginia; he is in part/time independent practice in Charlottesville; he is the Associate Director of the Virginia Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia; and he was the Principal Investigator on a Head Smart Schools project on Evaluation and Research. He has clearly made a significant contribution to an underserved population and the community at large. |
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