Dear Division 42 Colleagues and Friends,
Welcome to 2005. It’s great to be serving as your President. I look forward to a productive year together as we work to advance the practice of psychology. If you have any ideas and input for me and our Board members please forward them to me at drjbarnett1@comcast.net
Division 42 will hold its Mid-Winter Board meeting on January 29 & 30, 2005 in Hollywood, California. To review our working documents for this meeting please visit the President’s Corner on the Division 42 website’s Members’ side at www. division42.org . There you’ll find a draft of the agenda for the meeting and a recently updated version of the Division’s Priorities document. The later details all the Division’s activities and initiatives. Please forward all ideas, suggestions, and concerns to me prior to the Board meeting. I welcome your input.
To support several of my Presidential Diversity Initiatives I submitted a grant application to APA’s Committee on Division/APA Relations (CODAPAR) along with the presidents of Divisions 45 (Ethnic Minority Affairs) and 17 (Counseling Psychology). I’m pleased to report that our proposal was accepted and we received a $2,500 grant to support these diversity initiatives. A copy of the complete grant application detailing the projects for 2005 is available at the President’s Corner of the Division 42 website as well.
Resources for Practitioners
There are a number of very useful resources available online. See Division 42 member, Bill Benet’s website at http://www.webenet.com/ for an amazing array of useful resources.
Visit the website of Sandy Levy Ceren at http://www.drsandralevyceren.com/ . She has a number of great resources on her Mental Health Resources link.
Another Division 42 member, Pauline Wallin, has a great internet guide on her site at http://www.drwallin.com/internetguide.html This site has a number of great resources for effectively utilizing our computers and the internet along with links to numerous relevant websites.
See also Friday’s Progress Notes, and online newsletter, at http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/Newsletter/.html for a number of useful resources. For example, its July 10, 2004 issue they focused on practice management. Topics covered, and available for review on their website, include: complying with a subpoena, developing a budget for your practice, developing a suicide risk assessment, FAQs on Health and Behavior CPT codes, and more.
On the website of Medical Economics Magazine at http://www.memag. com/memag/ you’ll find lots of useful resources in areas such as Practice Management, Malpractice, Personal Finance, Technology, and more. An additional website to visit for business of practice information is the website of Psychotherapy Finances magazine at http://www. psyfin.com/. There you will find brief articles on topics such as developing practice niches, ways of getting off managed care panels, consulting with schools to develop referral sources, website development, HIPAA, practice building strategies, and more. Visit also: Psychology Information Online at http://psychologyinfo.com/ .
Anyone with additional websites or other online resources to share with Division 42 members please forward them to me and I can include them in next month’s issue. Thanks and best regards to all for a great New Year -
Jeff
