Media Referral Application

Dear APA Division President

We are writing to invite you and other members of your division to join more than 1,400 of your colleagues in the APA's Media Referral Service (MRS).

The MRS is a database housed in APA's Public Communications Office, which serves as a resource for the national media locating psychologists with expertise in a variety of topic areas.

We receive several calls a day from national and local print, broadcast and online journalists seeking on-the-record interviews or background from leading scientists, practitioners and educators. Requests run the gamut of psychological endeavor. The MRS database allows us to quickly find the right expert for the request, thus making the process a more efficient one for both the reporter and the interviewee.

As division president, we are hoping you and/or other members of the division will join the MRS to share your division's expertise with the news media. If you are not interested in joining, or if you are already a member of the MRS, we would appreciate you identifying other division members that you think would be a good match for this service. I have included a brief application form below for enrollment in the MRS. Please feel free to forward this form to your division's members as you see fit. The form should be returned to me as soon as possible at dpartenheimer@apa.org.

If you have any questions, please call us here at (202) 336-5700.

Sincerely,
David Partenheimer
Office of Public Affairs

Here is the MRS application:

Name:
Position and affiliation:
Mailing address:
E-mail address:
Office phone:
Home phone:
Other phone(s):
Highest degrees received:
Date received:
APA member since:
Major area of endeavor (i.e., professor of psychology, clinical psychologist in private practice, author/lecturer, consultant, school psychologist, etc.):

Areas of expertise, specific topics on which you could consider yourself an expert, such as family influences on childhood depression, treatment of eating disorders in adolescents, psychotherapy outcomes research, sex differences in job attitudes, pre-employment screening, cognitive psychology, learning and conditioning, perception, neurosciences, attitudes towards various groups, communication patterns among nonhuman primates, ability to acquire nonverbal skills and psychological tests for deception, etc.:

Recent publications (including both scholarly and popular works):

APA Divisions and/or Governance posts (past, present or future):

		Have you appeared on television?
		Local or national?
Type of program:
		Have you been interviewed on radio?
		Local or national?
Type of program:
Please comment briefly about your views on the subjects of expertise you have listed. If you are involved in a controversial issue, either in research or practice, please indicate your position on it. For example, if you are a proponent (or opponent) of a particular method, philosophy, approach or trend in your field, please describe your position. We strive to refer media experts reflecting a diverse range of viewpoints on controversial topics.

Clicking the submit button will send this applicationto the APA Office of Public Affairs via e-mail. If you have any questions, please call us at (202) 336-5700.

Dave Partenheimer
Public Affairs Associate
American Psychological Association
Ph: 202-336-5706
Fax: 202-336-5708
email: dpartenheimer@apa.org