Mitchell Rosenthal (1949-2007).

Mitchell Rosenthal, a central figure in the emergence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation and the professionalization of rehabilitation psychology, died unexpectedly on May 31, 2007, at the age of 58 from complications following cardiac surgery. Rosenthal was a major figure in the development and evolution of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems program and the Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Research Centers. From 1999 to 2004, he was the principal investigator for the TBI National Database Center funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. Rosenthal's leadership roles in rehabilitation psychology were many and significant. He was a founding member of the American Board of Rehabilitation Psychology and served on the Board of Trustees of the American Board of Professional Psychology at his death. His advocacy for rehabilitation psychology was evident throughout his career. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

From the editor.

In an attempt to make Rehabilitation Psychology an interactive forum, two new sections appear in this issue. The first is the "Readers' Forum," designed to present a submission that has successfully undergone the journal's anonymous review process and that addresses a significant rehabilitation issue. The second section, "Letters to the Editor," is designed to present feedback from readers, brief responses to and comments about previously published materials, and other information determined to be of potential interest to readers but that does not lend itself to more formal presentation. Every effort will continue to be made to make Rehabilitation Psychology responsive to its readers. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

On missing the point: A reply to Jaques et al.

Replies to comments by Jaques et al (see record 2005-09346-002) on the author's original article (see record 1980-33168-001). I daresay that virtually every author who must respond to criticism thinks that the critical reader missed the point. In this case, I must join the legion of misunderstood authors. The article is entitled, "Psychological Services in Rehabilitation Medicine: Clinical Aspects of Rehabilitation Psychology." I attempted a very brief overview of the roles and functions of rehabilitation psychologists, not rehabilitation counselors. Somebody missed the point! Further, as I stated both in the abstract and in the summary, I was focusing on traditional clinical and counseling applications. I am a psychologist, and I wrote this particular article for an audience of professional psychologists to try to introduce some of the issues involved in psychological practice in this particular setting. I think that I accomplished that rather straightforward goal, and I hope that some of the readers will now consider rehabilitation psychology as an area of specialization that does utilize the skills learned in traditional clinical and counseling psychology doctoral programs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Cecil H. "Pat" Patterson (1912-2006).

Cecil Holden "Pat" Patterson, 93, passed away on May 26, 2006, at his home in Asheville, North Carolina. A fellow of APA's Divisions of Counseling Psychology (17), Rehabilitation Psychology (22), and Psychotherapy (29), Pat was elected president of APA Division 17 in 1972. In recognition of his lifelong commitment to the field, he received the Division 17 Leona Tyler Award in 1994. Cecil H. "Pat" Patterson will be remembered as much for his love of family and the genuine personal interest he took in everyone he met as he will for his outstanding professional achievements. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to the special issue on rehabilitation psychology and the law.

Introduces this Special Issue of Rehabilitation Psychology, which includes a compilation of articles that represent the most current thinking in and is an up-to-date report of the interplay between legal factors and rehabilitation psychology. The guest editor, Bruce Sales, in his overview of the issue, cogently identifies those barriers to effective rehabilitation and highlights those that are created by our legal system, at either the national, state, or local level. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to special issue: Rehabilitation psychology and persons with psychiatric disabilities: Are they mutually exclusive?

This guest-edited issue of the journal illustrates the relevance of psychiatric rehabilitation to rehabilitation psychologists. It demonstrates that the focus of psychiatric rehabilitation includes some areas of functioning typically identified with rehabilitation psychologists, for example, vocational, residential, and family functioning. Further, it shows that traditional assessment methodologies and treatment settings are beginning to reflect a psychiatric rehabilitation orientation. Finally, it illustrates the philosophy and treatment models that form the basis of physical rehabilitation as also underlying psychiatric rehabilitation. It is hoped that this issue of Rehabilitation Psychology will assist in the resolution of the debate over contextual issues by considering why psychologists working with psychiatrically impaired persons may be identified as rehabilitation psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists and rehabilitation: New roles and old training models.

The role of psychologists in physical rehabilitation settings has expanded considerably over the past decades. Unfortunately, the lack of clarity regarding roles, functions, and research of psychologists in inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation settings has hampered efforts to establish guidelines for training graduate students to work in rehabilitative settings. Despite ongoing debate since the Princeton Conference in 1958, no guidelines have been recommended by Division 22 of the American Psychological Association (Division of Rehabilitation Psychology) for training doctoral students in clinical and counseling psychology programs for work in rehabilitation. This article asserts that psychology graduate students who want to work in physical rehabilitation settings should (a) have core training in psychology and (b) receive coursework and practica in working with persons who have chronic illnesses and injuries. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Psychologists in rehabilitation: Preparation and experience.

Examined the preparation and experience of the Directors of Psychology Services in the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities of 219 accredited hospitals and specialized settings. These organizations offer services in comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation, spinal cord injury, chronic pain management, and brain injury. 219 Directors of Psychology Services were surveyed. Doctoral specialties were in clinical (60%), counseling (21%), and rehabilitation psychology (4%). Postdoctoral training for 48% was primarily in neuropsychology. 5% had a master's degree in rehabilitation counseling. The work day included psychotherapy, administration, and neuropsychological assessment for the majority. 52% declared that they were not rehabilitation psychologists, and 50% had less than 5 yrs of experience in rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction.

Introduces this special issue of Rehabilitation Psychology. The purpose of this special issue is to present information about the status and utility of various treatment and rehabilitation programs that have been designed to maximize the functional outcomes of persons disabled with head injuries. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rehabilitation psychology: Exploring issues.

Rehabilitation Psychology has several goals. One of its primary functions is to disseminate information that promotes the effective use of knowledge. While really new and current developments in rehabilitation interventions having psychological components may be known to the reader long before discussion of them appears in Rehabilitation Psychology, few "new findings" are dealt with to everyone's complete satisfaction. Many opinions exist about the efficacy of most innovative strategies; these conflicting views often are diverse, if not controversial. Therefore, it is helpful to provide professionals a forum in which they can discuss a problem and offer different viewpoints and perspectives that promote its resolution. I hope to make the journal such a forum within which these varying viewpoints can be heard. As Editor, I view Rehabilitation Psychology as being the single most significant organ through which the field can acquire additional clarity and identity. I view the role of Editor as being similar to that of a gatekeeper. The role entails major responsibility for ensuring that clinicians and academicians have an opportunity to present their findings and their opinions about critical issues facing the field. It is a role I hope to fulfill with competence and sensitivity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Foreword.

This forward introduces the first issue of Rehabilitation Psychology. This issue contains a collection of articles chosen for their wide applicability to rehabilitation psychology. Each article addresses a separate issue of importance to the field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rehabilitation psychology: New directions? Reflections on the profession and the journal.

It is with a mixture of joy and sadness that I bid farewell to the editorship of Rehabilitation Psychology. I am sad because the journal has been a stepchild to whom I offered renewed life 5 years ago. I have watched it grow and develop over those 5 years from a fledgling infant, totally dependent on me, to an adolescent just on the brink of establishing its own identity in the world of scholarly publications. I believe the editor carries a great responsibility to help define the field, expand its horizons, and encourage publication of work that will cause policy makers, researchers, and clinicians alike to turn to the journal and the profession for answers to questions we can rightly answer. Therefore, the next step in the journal's life will be an important one, not only for the journal itself, but for the profession. If the journal can help our profession meet these challenges, then I believe we will see rehabilitation psychology established as one of the leaders among the health care professions. Other disciplines will look to the journal for guidance on a broad array of issues in the health care domain, and growing numbers will proudly identify themselves as members of that leading field, Rehabilitation Psychology. For this reason, I am pleased to pass the journal on to a new editor, one who can meet these challenges successfully. With sincere gratitude for the help and support given to me as editor by the editorial board, consulting reviewers, and the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology, I bid farewell to Rehabilitation Psychology and welcome Dr. Mike Eisenberg as editor, beginning with Volume 32, 1987. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

1986 CPA award for distinguished contributions to psychology as a science.

The 1986 recipient of the Canadian Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology as a Science is Dr. Ronald Melzack, Professor of Psychology at McGill University. Throughout his distinguished and prolific research career, Dr. Melzack has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of pain. Through careful experiment and innovative theory he has shown that the phenomenon of pain can be understood only in terms of the interaction between physiological processes, mental states, and social beliefs. He is perhaps best known for his "gate control" theory of pain, formulated in conjunction with Patrick Wall in 1965, which provides a theoretical basis for this interaction and which has exerted an immense influence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Rehabilitation Psychology, Medical Psychology, Health Psychology, and Behavioral Medicine.

In their recent article, "The Distinctiveness of Rehabilitation Psychology," Shontz and Wright (see record 1981-26520-001) attempt to differentiate rehabilitation psychology from other areas of applied and professional psychology in health settings. Although the authors' historical recounting of early research and theory in rehabilitation psychology is informative, too little emphasis is placed on the relationship between rehabilitation psychology and "mainstream" professional psychology, particularly with regard to its health-setting applications. There appear to be more similarities than differences. The authors' argument runs full circle, namely, that rehabilitation psychology is distinct because of its philosophy, but its philosophy and "principles are valuable to psychologists in many specialties" (p. 919). The notion of involving a patient in his/her care and treatment planning also is not unique to rehabilitation psychology. Shontz and Wright state that rehabilitation psychology is not medical psychology; however, instead of defining medical psychology, they go on to talk about medical care. Medical care is not medical psychology. Further confusion is added by the statement that medical psychology should be a component of rehabilitation psychology. The authors are using medical psychology, health psychology, and behavioral medicine as if they are synonymous, when they are not. Each discipline is made distinct here. Shontz and Wright do not address what the majority of psychologists in rehabilitation do, that is, provide services. In short, although the authors complain about the unfamiliarity of rehabilitation psychology relative to the profession as a whole, their article does little to promote rehabilitation psychology as an area of interest important to professional psychologists in health care and/or rehabilitation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editorial.

In this editorial, it is noted that this issue of the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, the last one for this editor, is unusually large, for it represents a regular issue and a Morton Prince Memorial Number combined. The enlargement is made possible by the Morton Prince Memorial Fund, an accumulation of money when Journal sales are larger than production expense. Also with this issue, the fifth editorial regime of the Journal ends, and this editor sings his "swan song." Volume 52 begins the sixth regime since Dr. Prince founded the Journal, with Dr. M. Brewster Smith of the Social Research Council as the new editor. This "swan song" is properly a report of stewardship, for the editor is an electee of the Council of Representatives and thus owes his office to the American Psychological Association. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Gregory A. Kimble (1917-2006).

Presents an obituary for Gregory A. Kimble, a general psychologist who passed away on January 15, 2006. Dr. Kimble had a lifelong allegiance to a particular approach to psychological science, and he was a superb organizer, synthesizer, and explicator of psychological fact and theory. He had a lifelong commitment to APA's Division of General Psychology, and from that division, he received the Hilgard Award for Lifelong Contributions to General Psychology and, in appreciation for his years of service to the division, its C. Alan Boneau Award for Distinguished Service. Dr. Kimble also played significant roles outside of APA. He was a member of several other psychological societies, including the exclusive Society of Experimental Psychologists. He will be missed by his family, his legion of friends and associates, and by the APA convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Editor's introduction.

Introduces this special issue of the Journal of Counseling Psychology (JCP) on "Quantitative Foundations of Counseling Psychology Research." Not only is this the first special issue in the JCP's history, but it is one that addresses a topic that should be extremely helpful to researchers in the specialty as well as those in other specialties and fields. Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning of literature on advanced quantitative techniques and issues in psychological research. What has been needed and is needed now more than ever is a series of educationally oriented articles that can be understood by the typical researcher and be useful in helping that researcher to know, for example, when and how to apply given techniques to data. Because the so-called typical researcher is not a mathematician or quantitative psychologist, to be understandable and useful, these articles should be presented from a verbal-conceptual standpoint rather than a mathematical one, and they ought to contain plenty of examples of use and misuse of techniques, drawn largely from counseling psychology research. In essence, that is what we have attempted to do in the clustering of articles in this special issue. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Foreword to the special issue on long-term care.

This special issue on long-term care, guest edited by Carl and Susan Eisdorfer, addresses an issue that is rapidly becoming the most important health policy issue of the 1980s. The dilemma that we face as citizens and as rehabilitation professionals alike centers on our rapidly growing population of elderly citizens. While we have made unprecedented medical advances that have allowed for greater longevity, our health and social policies have not kept pace with these advances. We are therefore ill-equipped to deal with the myriad of economic, social, and health issues that confront our nation's elderly citizens. This issue of Rehabilitation Psychology is an attempt to address these questions by individuals who are leaders in the field of aging and long-term care. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Introduction to the Special Issue of Rehabilitation Psychology: Issues in Outcomes Measurement.

This article introduces the special issue of Rehabilitation Psychology which explores outcomes measurement in rehabilitation. Outcomes measurement is intertwined with the scientist-practitioner legacy and future success of our profession. This collection of articles provides a review of the concept of outcome in rehabilitation, a tool box of techniques for frontline deployment, and commentary on ethical, health policy, and professional implications of outcomes measurement. A summary of key themes, referred to as the 5 Ps of outcomes measurement, is presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)