President-Elect Jean Carter, PhD. Psychologists in independent practice are facing significant challenges, including shifts in identity, roles and responsibilities. The Division has many initiatives to assist members as we accommodate to moving from primarily providing mental health services to offering a wide range of skillful interventions to society. Now we must focus our efforts to effectively enhance the lives of Division 42 members, and importantly, to engage in a review and re-visioning of our initiatives with an aim of both integration and effectiveness. At this moment in the history of organized psychology, here are some particular demands on our Division that can use the particular set of skills, talents and expertise that I offer: 1. The development of a 501(c)6 companion to our parent organization provides the opportunity to participate in a dramatic reorientation of advocacy and initiatives in the practice of psychology. Division 42 must play an integral role in this re-visioning. To do so, we must ensure that our primary leadership are centrally connected and in positions of impact and effectiveness. My history of success in creating coalitions, supporting collaborative initiatives, building connections in the practice community and fostering organizational integration will serve us well in maintaining our impact. Second, the Division has created new projects and new activities as we re-vision the Division’s priorities to ensure the best use of time, energy and money. My eagerness for strategic and long-range planning and ongoing review of structures and functions with a continuous eye toward Organizational effectiveness will encourage the Board, Committees and Task Forces to do this kind of internal review, giving us new energy for those projects that meet the needs of members. Third, the work of Division members in such important areas as Healthcare reform, legislative advocacy, and the use of electronic communications need to be facilitated through organizational structure that provides the scaffolding to encourage effective engagement in ongoing projects. As President, I would commit to working with the Board and the Central Office to ensure efficient management that supports our activities. Some of my relevant activities: Service to Division 42: • Secretary, 1999-2000 • Federal Advocacy Coordinator • MidWinter Committee (1993, 1999) • Chair and/or member of several Committees and TaskForces Other Related Experience: • Member, Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice • Member, Association for the Advancement of Psychology (AAP) Board of Trustees • Co-chair, National Academies of Practice in Psychology • President (1999-2000) and Vice President for Professional Practice (1993-1997), Division of Counseling Psychology • Past Chair, Committee on Division/APA Relations • Past Chair/Co-chair, Executive Roundtable of Practice Divisions Some Honors and Awards • Fellow, Divisions 17, 29 and 42 • Recipient, Black Award for Contributions to the Practice of Counseling Psychology, 1998 • Distinguished Practitioner, NAP in Psychology • APA Presidential Citation for Service to Divisions, 2000 Choose your votes carefully—and I hope you vote for me! Thank you.

President-Elect Lenore E. Walker, Ed.D. Re-empower the independent practitioner and vote for Lenore Walker for President. Here’s why: Lenore Walker has been in the independent practice of psychology for almost 30 years - a practice that has been diverse and exciting, structured to be flexible and yet strong throughout the changes over the years. Today I continue to maintain my practice with consultation, training and forensic areas as an addition to psychotherapy. I want to assist our members in building skills and diversifying practices so that the independent practitioner continues to thrive in today’s health care scene and in the future. As a part of APA governance for the past 25 years, I have learned much from the experience that can help move Division 42 into the forefront of psychology by giving clinicians options through organization. A Council Representative for many years, I also was elected to serve on the Board of Directors of APA. I have been elected and served on the Committee on Legal Issues gaining knowledge that is essential if we are to stay alive in the incredibly litigious practice arena. Experience on the Public Information Committee (PIC) helped me better understand our interactions with the media and I am currently President-Elect of Division 46, Psychology of the Media. My term on the Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) including a rotation as its Chair helped me gain a perspective of the international as well as national practice of psychology. Practitioners are beginning to thrive in parts of Europe and Asia while we struggle to stay alive here in the United States. My presidency and long history on the Executive Committee of Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women has helped me learn to lead a large and diverse division, with dynamics similar to Division 42 although the issues are different. And I have learned fiscal responsibility as treasurer of several other divisions. In many ways Division 42 members feel similar to battered women, having had our power siphoned off by those who want to better ‘manage’ the care we provide to clients. We need a strong response to both the world in which we practice psychology and our parent organization, the APA who must stand besides us as we continue to grow and thrive economically and professionally. I currently chair the Division 42 committee that is dealing with the proposed revisions to our Ethics Code and our report, which is elsewhere in this newsletter, suggests that we must organize to stop the misuse of the code against therapists. We must be re-empowered to do what we can do well - practice psychology in a variety of settings. If I am elected your President I will work diligently to restore our dignity and power.

Secretary James H. Bray, Ph.D. Division 42 is at an important juncture and needs continued strong leadership to sustain its vitality and growth. As an active independent practitioner, educator, and advocate for psychology I bring an unique perspective and can represent the multiple needs of our Division. To continue the growth of the Division, I believe that we need new input and ideas. I have not served on the elected Board, and would provide new innovations and energy to improve the independent practice of psychology. As a board member I would focus on: (1) providing leadership to protect the practice of psychotherapy in all of its forms by psychologists, (2) providing leadership around new practice areas, such as primary care, (3) continuing and expanding the outstanding publications from the Division, (4) developing advocacy both within and outside of the Division and APA for the expansion of the practice of psychology, and (5) expanding membership services for the changing needs of psychologists through innovative telecommunications technologies. I have extensive experience within APA and can work effectively to represent the Division as Secretary. I welcome this opportunity to serve you and Division 42 at this important point in our history. I appreciate your vote for Secretary. James H. Bray is in independent practice and an Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Director of Family Psychology Programs, Baylor College of Medicine. Service to Division 42: chair of the Family Therapy in Independent Practice Task Force, member of the Rural Health and Hospital Committees, and contributor to the Independent Practitioner. Active in APA governance and service: Member of the APA Council representing Division 43 (2000-02), APA Board of Educational Affairs (1996-1998), Chair of the APA Committee on Rural Health, CAPP Primary Care Task Force, 1995 President of Division 43, Member at Large of Division 29, Treasurer of Division 43, APA Fellow-(12, 29, 37, 42, 43), Federal Advocacy Coordinator for APA for the State of Texas, Divisions 12 and 43, Editorial board member of Professional Psychology, Psychotherapy, and others. In addition, I have been an active advocate for the practice of psychology by lobbying in the U.S. Congress, raising funds for the Association for the Advancement of Psychology, and working with the APA Government Relations department to expand the practice of psychology.

Secretary Michael J. Murphy, Ph.D. I am honored to be nominated for Secretary of Division 42. In the past I have had the opportunity to serve the Division in a number of positions. I was membership chair when the Division became the largest in APA. I served on the Board as member-at-large. I was President of the Division in 1996 and introduced an integrated budgeting and planning system to insure that resources were directed toward work products consistent with the Division’s goals. My current work in the Division includes Chair of the Emerging Patterns of Practice Committee and Editor of the Division’s book series. In my service I have emphasized ensuring that the Division attends to its core mission of advancing independent practice while making optimum use of its resources and maintaining close attention to the input of the members. I believe that Division achieves its mission by focusing on four central activities. First, the Division provides information, direction, and resources to assist members to enhance the development, administration, and clinical effectiveness of their practices. I have been particularly interested in identifying and informing members about innovative practice structures, marketing approaches, and services. A second way the Division advances practice is by ensuring that APA is responsive to the interests of independent practitioners. This is accomplished by working with CAPP to have input into the efforts of the Practice Directorate, coordinating Division efforts with those of the Practice Directorate, and influencing APA’s policy through Council. A third way the Division advances practice is by leading public policy advocacy directed at enhancing and protecting practice. This involves not only addressing managed care and searching for more effective delivery systems but also working for parity for mental health services, prescription privileges, and favorable policy in agencies such as HCFA. Finally, the Division advances the interest of practice through providing a contact point for social support and professional interaction of members. I believe that we can improve on the success the Division has had in advancing practice by ensuring that the needs and interests of the members are heard and used to direct our efforts. As secretary I will not only ensure that the members are informed about the actions of the Boards and Committees but will also advocate for improving mechanisms that will allow members to have input to the decisions and direction of the Division and have greater opportunity to participate its activities and governance. I will also bring a commitment to work with members of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors to focus, organize, monitor, and manage the projects and activities undertaken by the Division’s task forces and committees. I believe that I have the commitment, background, and knowledge of the Division to advance and strengthen the organization’s effectiveness in advancing independent practice. I would be grateful for the opportunity to serve as Secretary of Division 42.

APA Council of Representatives Dorothy W. Cantor, Psy.D. As President of APA, and in all my years serving Division 42 as membership chair, member-at-large, and currently as Council Rep, I have been an acknowledged leader in the fight for independent practice and against managed care: (I live what I believe and have a managed-care-free full-time practice.) The APA Association Rules allow me to succeed myself once on Council, and I would like the opportunity to continue to be a strong voice for independent practice in that body. I can assure you that I am a respected member to whom others pay attention. The credibility that I bring from my Presidency carries over with colleagues from other sectors of the Association. What are some things we need the Council to do in order for Division 42 members to derive the maximum benefit from their APA membership? • Adopt a new financial philosophy, putting more into programs and less into building net worth. This is a concept which I recommended that Division 42 put forward and which is gaining acceptance in many quarters. • Continue to adequately fund an ongoing public education campaign; focused on practice. • Convince our scientist colleagues that support of practice is ultimately in their best interest, because as practice goes, so goes the discipline. • Authorize APA to take an active role not only in the future of mental health care, but of health care, because they are so intimately intertwined. Keep in mind that the person elected to Council also serves on the Division’s Board of Directors. There I will continue to focus my attention on: • Keeping our public relations program in the forefront. I have led our efforts to develop the program, found our consultant, and serve with several other leaders on the committee that works with her to develop and distribute our press releases. • Increasing member services, especially tools to enhance practice. • Helping to keep our anti-managed care efforts on track. • Creatively seeking new markets for psychology. I am dedicated to keeping independent practice a viable career path long into the future. Elect me to one more term on Council and give me the opportunity to serve you. I promise to serve you well.

APA Council of Representatives Arthur L. Kovacs, Ph.D. History of Service: I have been privileged over the years of my career to be entrusted with many leadership roles in Division 42. I am a former President; I have served three terms as a member of the APA Council, the post for which I seek a renewed mandate; I have chaired your Education and Training Committee and been your liaison to APA’s Board of Educational Affairs; I wrote the Division Bylaws; I am presently a member of the Marketing Committee; and I am a past recipient of the Division’s Psychologist of the Year Award. I currently serve on the Interdivisional Task Force on Managed Care and as your Member at Large. Division 42 is family, and I have been devoted to making our Division and the pursuit of independent practice flourish in a time of great challenge. Relevant Experience: Our members are fortunate this year. My opponent is eminently qualified and can represent you with thoughtfulness. But I believe I am the better choice. I have been a member of APA’s legislative body for 28 out of the past 32 years. I know the Association, its challenges, and how to represent my constituents’ interests as well or better than anyone. I am the proud author of more successful legislation built into the fabric of APA than any past or present member of Council. I have served as a prime architect for the creation of both the Practice Directorate and the Education Directorate. I wrote the manual on how APA could develop a grant program to support our affiliated state associations. I wrote the wording of the legislation that transformed APA’s Committee on Accreditation and for the first time brought students and practitioners into the heart of a reorganized committee. If elected, I will continue to use my creativity and talent at drafting useful legislation to move forward with the next round of challenges we confront. Critical Issues: The survival of independent practice in a fashion that allows professional psychologists to pursue their careers meaningfully and allows the public to have access to needed psychological services is the crisis issue that must drive other agenda items to a lower priority. Using APA resources - as well as those of the Division - to engage in meaningful public education and to seek the reform of the nation’s health care system is the overarching aim of my candidacy. Our country must achieve universal health coverage, needs to secure the empowerment of both professionals and the recipients of health services to arrive at their shared decision about needed care, and should engage in the design of service delivery that can be carried out in an effective and cost effective manner. I believe that these are not hopelessly romantic objectives but are quite achievable. I wrote a column on these topics on the February Monitor. Please review what I wrote. How should the Division address these issues: Elect Arthur L. Kovacs your Council Representative.

Member-At-Large Stanley R. Graham, Ph.D. I served as the first president and founding member of Division 42 and except for three years as President of APA and one year as President of the New York State Psycho1ogical Association. I have served in APA Council for Division 42. I was a founder of the Practice Directorate and having served on CAPP for several terms I’m currently a special consultant there. I serve as co-chair with Stanley Moldawsky on the Interdivisional Council Against Managed Care and have worked with Karen Shore for many years on her crusade against managed care. I had been nominated to run for APA Council again but since we lost one seat I decided to withdraw and run for the Board of Division 29 instead because I did hot wish to oppose my good friend Arthur Kovacs whom I regard as the Thomas Jefferson of APA and Division 42. Dr. Kovac’s talent for words and his ability to create necessary concept in language are unequaled in all of APA. He writes most of the laws and amendments in Council and has reshaped the bylaws of APA. He has written the bylaws for Division 42 and has always served the practice community wholeheartedly and unselfishly. Therefore, I am asking you to support my effort to become a member of the Board of Division 42. With the drop in profits of various managed care organizations, the public contempt for the manipulation of HMO’s and insurance companies, the arousal and vulnerabilities of our legislatures, I think there is a chance to break the back of managed care and give the control of personal health needs back to the patient. We as psychologists should be doing a little “Harry and Louise” ourselves on behalf of the well being of our patients and tell the truth about thc politicians who take money from insurance companies and managed care interest and work against the health interest of their own constituents. After all we invented this kind of media. Let us find ways to use it for the good of our patients and our members. I will not deal with managed care personally, but I know that our clients and many of our psychologists find it necessary. It should be our job to remove that necessity and allow our patients freedom of choice. If I am elected, I promise to work hard for the aforementioned goals.

Member-At-Large Ed Lundeen, Ph.D. I am pleased to have the chance to run for Member at Large for Division 42. Being just a few years into private practice in this age of managed care, I feel quite lucky that I have found a way to build a psychotherapy practice outside the managed care system. The assistance of many of the Division 42 leaders and thinkers has been invaluable in helping me accomplish this feat, and their works inspire me to want to give back some of my time and energy to Div 42 For the past three years I have been a member of the Division 42/39/29 Task Force on managed care as an active member, and have learned much about the problems we face as psychologists in these difficult times. Also last year I was the responsible for the Division 42 Hospitality Suite at the APA convention, and this year I am serving as the Chairperson of the Division 42 Program committee, with responsibility for arranging all programming at the APA Convention in August 2000. I also serve on two committees for the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, and have been Chair of the Media Committee for the National Coalition (a leading organization in advocating for control of mc’s abuses and calling for health care reform). I have thoroughly enjoyed these opportunities, and would like to extend my service to my colleagues. Our Division has done well to identify new niches for practitioners and offering these opportunities to Division 42 members. However, many of our members may not be ready to avail themselves of such radical changes in their practice. It is up to the Division 42 Board to discover what our members DO want, and I believe it is again time to poll the membership to clearly define what their needs are. And as a younger practitioner, with only memories of the golden days before mc, I feel a duty to help students and young professionals to find a way to succeed in spite of the current obstacles of our health system; we owe it to the future to insure that our profession remembers it roots and does not lose its identity and principles in response to changing economic forces. Division 42 should be taking a leading role in movements toward health care reform as we urge APA to move to the forefront of such endeavors.

Member-At-Large Ivan J. Miller, Ph. D. I am deeply honored to be nominated for Member-at-Large. I have been an independent practitioner since 1986, and since 1993, I have been an activist working to promote psychology, market our services, and preserve the integrity of our profession. If elected, I will continue to promote the traditional services of psychologists and will support practice diversification and prescription privileges. Platform I will advocate for Division 42 activities that Promote traditional, client-focused psychotherapy through professional organizations, political activity, and public education. Promote expanding the self-pay market as the best short-term solution for maintaining the integrity and survival of independent practice. Promote alliances with other mental health professions, medical professions, the business community, and consumer advocates as a political strategy. Promote health care reform that reduces the influence of managed care, provides comprehensive services to those in need, and insures all Americans. History of Service Experience promoting traditional psychotherapy • Helping to write APA’s “Criteria for Evaluating Treatment Guidelines,” which will replace the “Template.” Due to complete the APA approval process this summer, it provides a basis for criticizing inappropriate managed care treatment guidelines. • Wrote articles showing that clinically-determined treatment (treatment decided by the clinician-patient team) is superior to the bureaucratically-determined treatment of managed care. Experience expanding the self-pay marketplace • Since 1994, have been Founder and President of the Boulder Psychotherapists Guild, a group of 56 independent, licensed psychotherapists joined together to inform the public about the benefits of traditional psychotherapy, explain the advantages of self-pay treatment, and increase the number of self-pay clients. The Guild, replicated in several locations, was featured in a Wall Street Journal article as a model for working outside of managed care. Experience building alliances with other mental health professions, the medical community, the business community, and consumer advocates • Developed a relationship between the Guild and a medical group to jointly market our services to businesses and the community. • Allying with the medical, political, and consumer communities as Chair of the Colorado Committee to Defend and Improve Health Care and becoming a Board Member of the Patient Advocacy Coalition. • Serving as Executive Director of the National Coalition of Mental Health Professionals and Consumers, 12/97 - 5/99. • Serving as a Board Member of the Boulder Independent Business Alliance. Experience advocating for health care reform. • Serving as a member of the Interdivisional (29/30/42) Task Force on Managed Care and Health Care Reform and Colorado Psychological Association Board. • Writing a 32 page manual which helps consumers appeal managed care denials and is distributed by the Colorado Mental Health Insurance Action Line, Patient Advocacy Coalition, and Division 39. • Submitting a report and testimony to the Department of Justice regarding managed care anti-trust activity. The report helped formulate the Holstein v. Green Spring lawsuit. • Writing articles about redesigning the health care system and supporting the APA efforts to advance health care reform.

Member-At-Large Pat Pitta, Ph.D. Do you want a member at large with a track record who works effectively persistently and efficiently for you? Vote for Pat Pitta For the past seven years I have been very active in the Division as a committee chair and once already elected member at large. While being Member At Large, Membership Chair, Promoting Psychology through the Media Co-chair and Student/Young Professional Chair I have accomplished the following: • attracted new members to our division by creating membership campaigns in many States where we successfully attracted new members. • developed membership liaison representatives throughout the U.S. that act as recruiters for membership in our division. Their job is to spread the word about “42” commitment to the private practitioner to thrive in private practice. • spearheaded a new membership category (Student-Young Professionals). The average age of our members is 52 years of age. The future of our division is in attracting new members who will commit to their professions and our division. • working presently with APAGS (APA Graduate Students) to develop a relationship where we can mentor students who will be able to join our division and eventually take on leadership positions. • organize programs at APA conventions for students to attend where they may learn about the how’s, why’s and how to’s of private practice. • working presently on a project with APAGS that will link private practitioners with students to talk about concerns, issues and research that will enable our students to understand how to develop as competent practitioners. • contributed to the “PICK 42” (Practice Information Clearinghouse of Knowledge) project where I wrote a niche manual on “Marital Therapy.” • chaired a committee to study how private practitioners can leave or terminate their practices in an orderly fashion • co-chaired committee promoting “Psychology Through the Media.” As a leader or division 42 I am strongly devoted to: • training our student-young professionals to become the most effective and efficient private practitioners they can become. • protecting the private practitioner from the abuses of managed care. • partaking in empowering the private practitioners to have the means to choose their professional routes by knowing how to develop a successful practice in whatever arenas they choose (with or without managed care). • to train, protect and enable our fellow professionals to develop to be quality practitioners who help others • to enable our profession to grow to protect our patients as well is our practitioners on national as well as local levels. Voting for me will give me the opportunity to work for you.

Member-At-Large Peter L. Sheras, Ph.D., ABPP Division 42 is a great Division. It has energy, committed participants, opportunity, and access to a great deal of useful information for practitioners. But in some ways we have been the victims of our own success. Over the past five years many great ideas have come to fruition producing documents and publications of great utility. The website has grown, brochures on a variety of topics have been produced, and access to information has been made more simple for members. However, I think that with the desire to be of continuing service in helping address a variety of new and changing markets, we have done more than can be effectively managed and sustained over a long period and have lost some focus. There is too much to keep up, and no real method for setting priorities, given fixed resources. The purpose of a Member-at-Large, I believe, is to aid the Board in creating and maintaining a vision for the division and helping to prioritize and keep everyone on task. This is what I will work to accomplish if elected. I have served the Division for many years as publication coordinator of the Brochure Project, member of the Membership Committee, and member of the Publications Board. I currently serve as the Division Federal Advocacy Coordinator and Chair of the Education and Training Committee (succeeding Arthur Kovacs). Although I have participated broadly, I am still a newcomer compared to many on the Board. I still like to think of myself as “new blood.” I believe that the challenges of the Division, at this time, call for new ideas and participation in leadership by some fresh faces. I hope that my experience has taught me how to function within the framework of the Division while my relatively short tenure in the Division structure has kept me from becoming overly attached to all the things we attempt to do. It is time to look carefully at our function, our purpose, and our priorities. In my experience as an independent practitioner for more than 25 years, I have looked to Division 42 for information and guidance. What it provides now seems almost overwhelming. The Division needs to communicate more concisely the services it can provide and how members can access them. Expanding our membership will be a function of convincing practitioners that Division 42 is “user friendly” and not too complicated for them. As a member of the Board, I will encourage us to streamline what we do for more effective utilization by members. I hope that you can support me in bringing new perspectives as a Member-at-Large. Thank you.