Division News and Notes

	A Membership Update and Welcome to Student/Young Professionals/Patricia Pitta
	Report from Council/Dorothy Cantor
	Time Capsule: The Beginning of Division 42/Stanley Graham

		Dorothy W. Cantor, Psy.D.			Report from Council August 1999 The August Council meeting had us wondering what we were doing there. The agenda was brief (only 19 items, including minutes and several housekeeping items) and noncontroversial. It may be that because the spring consolidated meetings of Boards and Committees were cancelled, many items are tied up in the pipeline and the Council will be inundated in February. We shall see. This was the last Council meeting for Michael Enright and Arthur Kovacs, the latter after 28 years of service on Council! The most heated discussion was around the budget, usually an item that puts Council members to sleep. But your delegation raised the question of the philosophy behind the budget. How much net worth do we need to build, at what cost to our ability to meet the needs of our membership? Although there was no motion on the floor, Jack McKay (APA CFO) got the message that an extremely conservative savings policy is not what the Council espouses. We will take the lead to continue the discussion with representatives of other Divisions and states prior to the February Council meeting and will see that the discussion is taken up again on the Council Floor. Council did authorize the ongoing due diligence and potential purchase of a warehouse property about one mile from our headquarters building in D.C. The purchase would allow for consolidation of APA warehoused materials, cut costs, and potentially produce revenue, The notion of our investment properties producing non-dues revenue for the Association is very attractive and is part of the budget philosophy we had raised. Council did suspend the rules and agree to allocate $16,000 in its contingency funds to “fund consultative site visits to stimulate the development of prescription privilege activity in states with good potential for such development.” This activity will be coordinated by the Practice Directorate. Russ Newman, Executive Director of the Practice Directorate, showed the APA/MTV video “Warning Signs” to the Council and shared the excitement of the fabulous response which it has engendered. Over 250 community focus groups have already been given use of the video and guide and hundreds more are expected in the Fall. (You can run them in your community. Division 42 member Toni Bernay excited the Council with a report of her working Group on Developing the Psychology Marketplace The group was developing APA name-brand multimedia practice enhancement packages for practitioners to use in niche markets. One facet is an organizational effectiveness consultation service including a corporate fellowship with PriceWaterhouseCooper. Council received the report prepared by an Interdisciplinary Work Group on the Psychosocial Components of Health, which is part of a larger effort currently being led by Bill Bradley to develop a national health care plan which takes into account the news of various stakeholders. Division 42’s Margaret Heldring is responsible for this daunting project. Pat Bricklin, Arthur Kovacs, Gerry Koocher and I were proud to be part of this Work Group. Ray Fowler, APA’s CEO, reported on the plan to implement “A Shared Vision,” the report of the Science-Practice Task Force which Bruce Overmeir and I chaired. Fowler had committed, over the remaining 5 years of his tenure, to the goal of the integration of science and practice. Many individual items from the report have been referred to appropriate Boards and Committees for implementation recommendations. Upon the recommendation of the Membership Committee, the following Division 42 members were elected Fellows of AFA: Daniel J. Abrahamson, Ph.D., Jeffrey J. Magnavita, Ph.D., William A. Myers, Ph.D., Randy Phelps, Ph.D., Joseph G. Poirier, Ph.D., Stephen N. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., and John R. Rudisill, Ph.D. Our congratulations to them all. If you have any questions about Council of Representatives, contact me or any of our delegation: Michael Enright, Stanley Graham, Arthur Kovacs, Stan Moldowsky, Bob Resnick and Karen Zager or our incoming Reps. Alan Entin, Sandra Haber, or Michael Murphy.
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