2006 Division Award Winners
Each year Division 42 recognizes the contributions of psychologists who have made significant and lasting contributions to the independent practice of psychology and to the profession of psychology. The Division 42 Board of Directors is pleased to announce this year’s award winners and requests your attendance at the award ceremony to participate in recognizing these outstanding colleagues. This year’s awardees are:
Jean A. Carter, Ph.D. — Division 42 Outstanding Psychologist Award
Geoffrey M. Reed, Ph.D. — Division 42 Distinguished Public Service Award
These awards will be presented during the Division 42 Membership Appreciation Meeting on Saturday, August 12, 2006 from 4:00pm - 4:50pm in the Grand Salon 9 room of the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel hotel.
Jean A. Carter
Jean Carter, Ph.D. has a long and distinguished history of service to Division 42, to the practice of psychology, and to our profession overall. She has served in numerous positions in Division 42 to include Secretary, President, and Representative to APA Council. As President she was the primary moving force behind opening up the membership and leadership of the division to psychologists of diverse backgrounds. She helped created an environment that continues today and is reflected in the very diverse membership of our Board of Directors and of our overall membership. Dr. Carter revised the structure of service and terms on the division’s committees and she led the priorities review and update for the division. Dr. Carter has also served as President of Division 17, Counseling Psychology, advancing practice issues there as well as in her role as Co-Chair of CAPP and in her role as a Trustee of the Association for the Advancement of Psychology and as Platform Chair of the Association for the Advancement of Psychology. Dr. Carter has been a consistent leader of our profession who has a welcoming and collaborative style that gets things done. She has a proven track record of accomplishments and is one of the practice community’s great leaders. She is an active mentor of many and a role model for all.
Geoff Reed
Geoffrey M. Reed, Ph.D. is Assistant Executive Director for Professional Development at the American Psychological Association (APA). He is a clinical and health psychologist, whose clinical work and research has focused on responses to life-threatening illnesses, including AIDS and breast cancer. He has published numerous scientific and policy articles in such journals as American Psychologist, American Journal of Cardiology, Health Psychology, Professional Psychology: Research and Practice and the Journal of Social Issues. From 1990 to 1995, he was a member of the research faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA School of Medicine, where he was named one of the 50 Most Innovative AIDS Researchers in the US. At APA, Dr. Reed is
responsible for the development and implementation of collaborative projects focused on improving health care outcomes and patient care. As a part of his work at APA, he has consulted to a wide range of health care organizations, including the Department of Defense on the integration and reorganization of the Army, Navy, and Air Force health care services in the National Capital Area. He has been responsible for the design and implementation of PracticeNet, APA’s new Internet-based infrastructure for the collection of information regarding psychological practice. He was the lead inventor for the PracticeNet’s unique electronic network based Real Time Behavior Sampling methodology, which is currently being patented by APA. Since 1995, he has been working with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the implementation of WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), a system designed to capture the functional consequences of health conditions. He is currently leading a multi-organizational, multidisciplinary team in the development of a manual for the ICF intended to facilitate use of the ICF in health care settings.
He is a member of the Core Group of the WHO Coordinating Committee on the Revision of Chapter V (Mental and Behavioural Disorders) of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10). The Coordinating Committee serves as the planning, steering and final decision making authority in the ICD-10 revision process. Dr. Reed has been appointed by the International Union of Psychological Sciences as the official representative of the profession of psychology in the ICD-10 revision process. He has also been involved in the development of the following Guidelines. ( His role in each is noted in the Authors’ Note in the versions of the documents published in AP):
- Criteria for the Evaluation of Treatment Guidelines (lead staff)
- Criteria for Practice Guidelines Development and Evaluation
(lead staff) - Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dementia and AIDS-Related Cognitive Decline (lead staff)
- Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
- Guidelines for Test User Qualifications (lead staff)
- Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists
- Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Older Adults
- Determination and Documentation of the Need for Practice Guidelines (lead staff)
- Record Keeping Guidelines (under review; lead staff)
- Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Women and Girls (under review)
Oliva Espin, Ph.D.— The Rosalee Weiss Award and Lecture
This award is given by the American Psychological Foundation and is administered jointly by Division 42 and Division 29 (Psychotherapy). This award will be presented Saturday 8/12/06 at 3:00pm -3:50pm in Meeting Room 253 of the Morial Convention Center.
Oliva Espin
Dr. Oliva Espín specializes in the psychology of Latinas, immigrant and refugee women, women’s sexuality across cultures and qualitative research methodology.
Dr. Espín has the experience of leaving Cuba, crossing a language and culture to make a new home in a new place. As a lesbian who celebrates her identity, Dr. Espín has the experience of a woman challenged to live a marginalized existence but she has created a loving community among women and men who share and celebrate her experiences. Her willingness to disclose her personal challenges and joys have made her teaching and scholarly work vibrant.
She was given the honor of recognition as an elder in the National Multicultural Conference and Summit 2005 and American Psychological Association for her contribution to psychology and devotion to multicultural issues. She received the 1991 Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Public service from the American Psychological Association, the Distinguished Career Award from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2001 and distinguished publication awards from the Association for Women in Psychology in 1993 and 1999. She is the author of many articles and regularly presents her work at national and international professional conferences. She co-edited Refugee Women and their Mental Health: Shattered Societies, Shattered Lives (Haworth, 1992) and is the author of Latina Healers: Lives of Power and Tradition (Floricanto, 1996) and Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality (Westview, 1997). Her latest book, Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality was published in 1999 (Routledge). Dr. Espín has recently turned her attention to the study of women saints from feminist and psychological perspectives.
Throughout her career Dr. Espín has always been interested in understanding the close boundary between the psychological and spiritual. For example, she received funds from the NIMH to work as a research fellow at Harvard University examining the parallels between Hispanic healers and counselors. This study resulted in one of her books.
Dr. Espín is Past-President of Division 44 and has served in Council and several Boards and committees of the APA, including the Membership Committee, the first BAPPI and the last BSERP. She has recently been elected to CIRP. She has also served in governance of AWP and other professional organizations.
Dr. Espín has always invited psychologists to ask questions which were not considered by most. She would not accept that psychological theory was accurate when it was based only a small percentage of the population. As such, Dr. Espín early work demanded that we understand human development in relation to the experiences of women and particularly the experiences of women of color. Throughout her career, Dr. Espín challenged therapists to join with clients in the recognition that the clients’ cultural identities consistently shaped their psychological health and distress. She also encouraged therapists to recognize that their own cultural identities influenced their ability to form emphatic alliances. Dr. Espín is a pioneer in demanding multicultural standards, academic requirements, and placing multicultural issues at the center of the academic training of psychologists. Her impressive body of work on immigration and sexuality has allowed many to see the painful, complicated, and resilient world of many women who immigrate to the United States. Beginning with her study on the letters of Latina women immigrants as they move from adolescence to adulthood, Dr. Espín provided a view of cultural understanding of female sexual development. She continues to provide broader understating as she explored the experiences of immigrant/refugee women from different cultural backgrounds. As impressive as the content of her research is Dr. Espín’s courage to move outside the traditional research methodologies to find a way to study those who had not been “seen” by psychology and provide a vehicle for their stories to be portrayed.
Dr. Espín’s deep connection to students and her ability to create a supportive yet challenging learning environment continued throughout her career. Her ability to form relationships with a wide diversity of students marks the success of her teaching career. She encourages students to recognize the difference and similarities among their experiences and understand how it causes them to make meaning of knowledge and influences their work. She also facilitated several decades of doctoral student research on topics which have broadened research methodology and advanced study in multiculturalism.
As a teacher, mentor, and scholar, Dr. Espín has helped inform and share the discipline of psychology and multicultural issues. Through her teaching and clinical work she has touched many lives and made their worlds richer. A woman of great soul, passion, and commitment, Dr. Espín has certainly had monumental influence on many in the fields of psychology and women’s studies.
