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Independent Practitioner/Fall 2005 |
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Division News and Notes |
Psychologists in Independent Practice Jeffrey E. Barnett, President |
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Below is a summary of Division 42’s accomplishments and ongoing activities this year. Each of these has been done in the hope having Division 42 work harder for you, our valued members, to help you to be more successful in your practice, and to help advance the independent practice of psychology. If you have questions or need more information about any of these please contact me directly at drjbarnett1@comcast.net . Division 42 applied for and then received a CODAPAR grant to support interdivisional projects between Divisions 42, 45, and 17. Projects included a successful Preconvention Workshop on implementing the APA Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists in one’s practice. We are also developing a primer and an online continuing education course on the APA Multicultural Guidelines. Division 42 was a sponsor of the APA Multicultural Conference and Summit, held the Division 42 Board meeting in conjunction with this event, and had a significant presence of Division 42 Board members at the Summit. We engaged in outreach and membership recruitment at the Summit to include hosting a reception for the Boards of Divisions 42, 17, 39, 44, and 45. I created In Touch With 42, a monthly online e-mail newsgram written by the President that was sent to a majority of Division 42 members via the Division’s Announcement-Only Listserv. Members will receive an issue each month through the end of the year. Jana Martin, past Chair of the Marketing and Public Education Committee Chair and the members of the Committee (Nancy Molitor, Chair, and Dorothy Cantor, Sandy Haber, Tammy Martin-Causey, Pat Pimental, Elaine Rodino, and Jeff Barnett) produced a new brochure Going Public With Your Private Practice: Using Public Education Materials to Enhance Your Practice. This brochure has been mailed to all Division 42 members along with the fall Apportionment Ballot mailing. This new brochure should be of great value to the Division’s members in helping them to enhance their practices. It has also been shared with APA President Ron Levant’s Making Psychology a Household Word task force for their use as well. Nancy Molitor, 2005 Chair of the Marketing and Public Education Committee, created an online marketing course for Division 42 members. Four modules have been developed thus far with additional modules to follow. This member benefit will is offered free of charge to Division 42 members beginning this winter and will continue to be offered periodically. Authors of this course include Division 42 members Jana Martin, Tammy Martin-Causey, Nancy Molitor, and John Rudisill. Our website editor, Gordon Herz, sought out and developed an arrangement with CarePaths to create a suite of online outcome assessment measures that is now available to all Division 42 members free of charge. It can be accessed through the Division 42 website. Members interested in other products and services beyond those covered in this arrangement may purchase them directly from CarePaths. A Memorandum of Understanding and a Disclosure Statement were written by Division 42 and approved by APA legal counsel prior to initiating this venture. A Presidential Mini-Convention was developed and presented as part of the Division’s convention program at the 2005 APA Convention. These 11 symposia take the independent practitioner from graduate school through retirement, also covering most everything in between. All 30 presentations that comprised the 11 symposia from the Presidential Mini-Convention were written up in advance, edited, and compiled into a new Division 42 publication Handbook for Success in Independent Practice. This new handbook was distributed to all Division 42 members in attendance at the Division’s Annual Membership Appreciation Meeting. It was also distributed to all those who joined the Division at the Membership Appreciation Meeting and at the Division’s Social Hour at the Convention. It is now made available to all members for a fee of $10 to cover mailing expenses and for $42 to all others. To order your copy contact Jeannie Beeaff at div42apa@cox.net . At the Membership Appreciation Meeting a number of colleagues were honored for their contributions to the profession and to independent practice. They are:
Additionally, the Division recognized and welcomed the following new Fellows of Division 42:
Other new Fellows of Division who could not be present then are:
I was also pleased to give the first Presidential Citation to a partner of a Division 42 leader in recognition of outstanding support and contributions to the Division. This year’s recipient was Laura Froman, who has supported and encouraged the many contributions of our IP Associate Editor, mentoring program coordinator, and listserv maven. For the second consecutive year the Division held a student poster competition. Eleven student posters were selected to be displayed at the Division’s Social Hour and five of them won citations and $200 travel awards. Division 42 reinstituted a Hospitality Suite program at the 2005 APA Convention. We held a social hour for Student/Early Career Psychologists and one for first time convention attendees. We also held four intimate dialogues with experienced practitioners. These included a presentation and then book signing with A. J. Franklin, Negotiating a Supervisory Relationship with Jeff Barnett and Mitch Hicks, Effective and Ethical Marketing with Don Franklin, and How to be a Financially Successful Psychologist with Frank Froman and Martin Manosevitz. Last year I appointed a task force on LGB issues to be chaired by Armand Cerbone and Kris Hancock. Then this year the Division 42 Board approved a new and expanded mission statement and name for the division’s diversity committee, now known officially as the Diversity Issues in Practice and Culture Committee. The mission of the Committee now includes all aspects of diversity. We then disbanded the LGB task force and folded it into the newly expanded Diversity Committee that is chaired this year by Armand Cerbone. Kris Hancock along with members of the Diversity Issues in Practice and Culture Committee developed an online CE course on the implementation of APA’s Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients. This will be soon be available to all members via the Division 42 website for a small fee and to non-members for a larger fee. In conjunction with the members of the Students/Early Career Psychologists Committee and the S/ECP Board member this group’s mission statement was revised to combine the S/ECP Board member and the S/ECP Committee Chair into one position to enhance communication and coordination of activities. An election for this new combined position for 2006 will be held among the Division’s S/ECP members this winter. We appointed several task forces this year to monitor ongoing developments in our profession and to ensure that the interests of independent practitioners are represented in these deliberations. These are: Task Force on the Revision of the Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Practice: Jeff Younggren, & Lenore Walker, Co-chairs, Glenn Ally, Steve Bloomfield, and Martin Williams Task Force on the Revision of the APA Record Keeping Guidelines: John Northman & Melba Vasquez, Co-chairs, Dick Saunders, David Shapiro, and Cynthia Sturm. Additionally, an interdivisional task force was formed along with Division 31 to address Licensure Board Issues in Psychology. This year the task force has been developing a handbook for psychologists who come before their licensure board. Their work is ongoing. The task force Chair is Martin Williams and the task force members are Martin Manosevitz, Mark Peterson, David Shapiro, and Lenore Walker, with Jeff Barnett, and Lisa Grossman, ex officio. Liaisons were appointed to represent Division 42 members and independent practitioners’ needs and interests on the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Proficiencies in Professional Psychology (CRSPPP) and the 2005 Inter-Organizational Summit on Structure of the Accrediting Body for Professional Psychology. These liaisons are Sally Horwatt, and Mike Murphy, respectively. Arlene Noriega has been appointed Division 42’s liaison to APA’s Committee on International Relations in Psychology. Cynthia Sturm served as our liaison to APA’s Education Leadership Conference. We also welcomed this year Tammy Martin-Causey as our 2006 Associate Convention Program Chair and Harriette Kaley as our 2006 Associate Fellows Chair. Additionally, Frank Froman, our Associate Newsletter Editor helped to create and serves as coordinator of our new mentoring program, Colleague to Colleague (C2C). It is actively being used and reports are that it is very successful thus far. If you are interested in serving as a mentor to a colleague or in being mentored please contact Frank at FrankF@adams.net. A liaison, student member Tiffany Snyder, was appointed to be Division 42’s liaison to the APAGS/Division Student Representative Network. Additionally, the Division 42 Board approved a plan for the inclusion of at least one student on each Division 42 Committee from this point forward beginning when new appointments are made. S/ECP member, Monica Neel, has been appointed to both the S/ECP Committee and the Division 42 Membership Committee. A survey of Division 42’s Past Presidents was developed and conducted by Past President Jean Carter at the direction of Division 42’s Board of Directors to assess Past Presidents’ desire and ability to give continued service to the Division in elected positions on the Board. Seventeen of 19 Past Presidents responded and no significant difficulties were reported with Past Presidents either not being interested in continued service or currently providing service. In fact, at present six of the Board’s 19 members are Past Presidents. As tasked by the Division 42 Board of Directors, I developed a formal evaluation procedure for the Division’s Administrator and then distributed the survey to all current Board members. The results were compiled anonymously and shared with the Board. The Board then voted to renew the Administrator’s contract for two years with an increase in salary. The anonymous compilation of survey ratings and responses was then shared with the Administrator for her feedback and use. The same procedure will be repeated in two years. A new policy for the selection and appointment of the Associate Editor of The Independent Practitioner and the Associate Editor of 42 Online was developed and approved by the Board to ensure an open process that accesses the best possible candidates and that ensures a review of each applicant’s qualifications. Additionally, three new members were appointed to the Publications and Communications Committee, Linda Campbell, Alan Entin, and John Norcross. They join Chair, John Rudisill, and our other Committee members. The Division 42 Board approved a series of new fiscal policies for the Division’s operating expenses and investments. These new policies help the Division’s assets to be invested more productively and they more specifically delineate the roles and responsibilities of the Division’s Administrator, Treasurer, Finance Committee, and Board with regard to investing funds, moving funds between accounts, making deposits, and making withdrawals. A specific policy for withdrawing funds from investment accounts was agreed on to ensure accountability. An Older Adult Interest Group was formed this year and is chaired by Merla Arnold. A listserv for the group has been started and 22 members are already participating. Planning is ongoing for developing activities and initiatives for members with expertise and interest in work with Older Adults. Division 42 provided $3,000 to Psychology Shield, an organization of psychologists in California who are fighting a legal battle to implement existing laws so they may practice to the full extent guaranteed by their licenses and by California law in state facilities. Organized psychiatry has refused to allow psychologists full staff privileges, admission and discharge privileges, and related privileges despite clear rulings by judges on this matter. They continue fighting an important legal battle and our donation will assist them in this regard. This battle has national implications for all licensed psychologists who want to practice to the full extent allowed by law. Division 42’s Board gave its #1 endorsement to Katherine Nordal for APA President. The Division gave Katherine a check for $2,500 to assist her with the many expenses of running for APA President. We also endorsed Steve Ragusea and Thomas Vaughn #s 2 & 3 in the order of our members’ preference. See the Division 42 website at www.division42.org for information about Katherine Nordal and for a link to her site. Please consider giving her your personal endorsement there. Please be sure to vote in this important election and to give Katherine Nordal your #1 vote. Katherine is a full-time independent practitioner with a long history of leadership, advocacy, and contributions to the independent practice of psychology. We must all vote in this election and vote for Katherine Nordal. Division 42 participated once again in the Rosalee G. Weiss Award that is administered by the American Psychological Foundation. We alternate selecting the recipient each year with Division 29, Psychotherapy. This year the American Psychological Foundation presented Division 42 with a Certificate of Commendation. “For their expertise and guidance in recommending outstanding leaders to deliver the Rosalee G. Weiss Lecture for Outstanding Leaders in Psychology.” It is signed by Dorothy Cantor, Psy.D., APF President and Lisa Strauss, APF Executive Director. I was pleased to accept this recognition on behalf of all the Division 42 leaders before me who made this possible. We will be announcing the 2006 recipient of this award at our mid-winter board meeting. Last year, the Division 42 Board voted that we should investigate the possibility of becoming or creating a C-6 companion organization so that the Division might be able to engage in increased advocacy activities on behalf of our members. This year’s Executive Committee was tasked with fully investigating this matter and to then report back to the Board. With the expert assistance of Division 42 Treasurer, Bonnie Markham This a top priority this year. We had multiple e-mail communications with both APA legal counsel and a private attorney who specialized in not-for –profit organizations and tax law. We held conference calls with each and investigated the various options available to the Division and the pros and cons that come with each. We then reported back to the Division 42 Board at its August meeting and were tasked with investigating further options and with answering specific questions for the Board. We will report back to the Board later this fall and the Board will consider these issues and then possibly vote on the matter at the February 2006 midwinter Board meeting. Members will be provided with a full report on these issues. Additionally, once the information is gathered and choices for the Board are clear we will conduct a survey of the members to obtain their input and preferences on this matter. A full report will then be made to the membership of the conclusions reached and decisions made. Thanks for a great year, for the opportunity to serve as your President, and for the opportunity to work with such a great group of colleagues. |
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