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Representative to APA Council (3 to be elected)

Candidate Statements

Katherine C. Nordal, Ph.D.

Spring 2004 - Table of Contents

Contents

Editorial

President’s Message/Ronald Fox

From the Editor/Martin H. Williams

Professional Practice

Three Myths About Empirically Validated Therapies/Gerald P. Koocher

Triage as Treatment: Phantom Mental Health Services at Kaiser-Permanente/Russell M. Holstein

Hey Folks, They’re Screwing Us Again/Stanley Moldawsky

Bringing a Halt to MisManaged Care/Mary Kilburn

Marketing

Lessons Learned to Date on Web Page Authoring/David Palmiter

Advocacy

2004 - Looking Back Upon the Future/Pat DeLeon

Washington Update: Lessons Learned on the Campaign Trail/Ronald F. Levant

Students/Early Career Professionals

The Mentor’s Corner/Miguel E. Gallardo and Michael Murphy

Division News and Notes

Book Reviews

You’re On! Consulting for Peak Performance, by Kate F. Hays and Charles H. Brown/Reviewed by Michael J. Cuttler

Humor

Sunday Ramblings/Frank Froman


It is an honor to be nominated for Division 42 Council Representative. As an independent practitioner for 24 years I am well acquainted with the challenges to and opportunities for practitioners.

Although a Div. 42 member for many years, I am a newcomer to division governance, currently serving as Finance Chair. I do have a long history of leadership in my state association and APA. As a member of APA’s Board of Directors (2001-03), I was a strong advocate for practice and served on the Board/CAPP Coordinating Committee. I was the Board’s liaison to the Ethics Office and worked with that office to change its focus from ad judicatory to educative. During adoption of the current ethics code I worked to make sure that practitioners had a strong voice. Another of my concerns was the lack of APA policy about guidelines. We now have in place, thanks to the able assistance from Geoff Reed in the Practice Directorate, APA policy about the development and adoption of practice guidelines that serves well the interests of practitioners.

I am currently a CAPP member (liaison to Committee of State Leaders and member of Prescription Privileges committee) and APA Insurance Trust trustee. I have served as COR representative from Mississippi and as chair of the Committee on Rural Health. I have also been active in APP. I am an APA Fellow and member of divisions 42, 31, 35, and 41. And I was the first full time practitioner to be an APA Congressional Science Fellow. I have a good understanding of policy issues and recognize that it is imperative that we be savvy players in that arena at the federal and state levels.

There are many issues confronting practitioners: full integration into our primary health care system with a scope of practice including prescriptive authority, use of expanded billing codes, and full parity; expanded federal funding for psychological training and loan forgiveness programs for practitioners who will work in underserved areas; training programs that understand the current market realities for practitioners and who can train them for that marketplace; the need for additional skill in the legislative and regulatory arenas; changing demographics in America which call for the inclusion of culturally diverse practitioners in all areas of APA governance and the training of psychologists to work competently with communities of color.

How can our division address these issues? We must monitor the APA budget process to ensure adequate funding for the Practice Directorate and the APAPO, who champion our issues. We must continue to work closely with CAPP, BPA, CRH, other practice divisions, and with our practitioner colleagues on the Board of Directors about any issues that have the potential to impact practice. I believe that my experience in APA governance and the relationships I have developed with other governance members and entities will allow me to work very effectively and passionately for the practice agenda. I would appreciate your support and your vote.

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