Report of the C.P.A. Representative to the National Scientific Planning Council Canadian Mental Health Association.

Presents the report of the Canadian Psychological Association Representative to the National Scientific Planning Council of the Canadian Mental Health Association. The purpose of this report is to communicate in very brief form the activities of the Council which are most likely to be of interest to psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

First report to the Council of Representatives from the Commission on Composition of Council.

Presents the First Report to the Council of Representatives From The Commission on Composition of Council. This an edited copy of the September 1966 report to the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives from our Commission. Comments relating to matters other than composition of the Council of Representatives have been deleted. The 12 members of the Commission are named at the end of this report. The Commission was appointed by Nicholas Hobbs in May 1966, at the recommendation of the Council of Representatives. During Council's spring meeting, extensive discussions were held on the problem of the composition of Council. The Commission was charged with recommending changes in the method of electing members to Council and we were given a number of guidelines by Council to follow in our deliberations. The Commission met during the spring and summer and discussed the problem of the governing structure of the Association and drafted the enclosed document. It is not a final proposal, but should serve as a basis for approaching the problem. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual Report of the C.P.A. Representatives to the International Union of Scientific Psychology (May, 1967).

Presents the annual report of the Canadian Psychological Association representatives to the International Union of Scientific Psychology. Included are brief notes regarding: (1) Summary report of the Moscow Congress; (2) International Directory of Psychologists; (3) The International Review of Psychology; (3) Next international congress; and (4) Next meeting of the Executive Committee. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the Committee on Government Plans and Programmes.

Presents a report from the Canadian Psychological Association's Committee on Government Plans and Programmes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Letter to the Editor.

What follows is an open letter to the President and Directors, Canadian Psychological Association. This letter addresses the 1972 Survey of Psychologists in the United States and Canada, a survey which emanates from the APA and which has the cooperation of the Canadian Psychological Association. The author of this letter, Susan K. London, Ph.D. believes the willingness of the Board of Directors of CPA to commit Canadian psychologists--without any sort of approval from the CPA membership, which is within your legal rights, but which is nonetheless very disturbing morally--to this sort of thing demonstrates a naiveté if not downright disingenuousness. It is more than time for Canadian psychologists to recognize one of their blindspots. The ordinary Canadian psychologist is usually quite sensitive to political implications--except when it comes to psychology and the United States! When that subject comes up, the usual camouflage is invoked: professionalism, value-free science, the need to rationalize procedures, etc. The most common one, perhaps, is the notion that APA and American psychologists (in the United States and in Canada) only wish to be of help. The camouflage rather reminds me of the squid that emits quantities of ink in the face of danger. It is therefore an indication that the CPA Board of Directors are aware of danger, are in fact acting in full knowledge of that danger. The contradiction is blatant. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Status of Women in the Psychological Community in the Southeast: A Case Study.

The Executive Committee of the Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) appointed a Commission on the Status of Women in the spring of 1972. The Commission was charged to describe the status of women in psychology in the Southeast, to develop an affirmative action plan, and to present a report at the annual meeting in 1973. The Commission conducted studies assessing women in the role of faculty, administrators, private practitioners, researchers, graduate students, and SEPA members, through surveys of female and male psychologists, members and nonmembers of SEPA, PhD students, department chairs, and, in one case, a controlled experiment on undergraduates of both sexes. This article reports some of the results of these studies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the treasurer: 1985: A hard look at APA finances.

From a financial point of view, 1985 was a year of change for APA. There were important endings and beginnings, and some aspects of the APA's long-range financial prospects became clearer. The author uses this year's Treasurer's report to take a hard look at where the APA is and where the APA may be going. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the Treasurer: 1987. A year of trial, tribulation, and transition.

Provides the report of the Treasurer of the American Psychological Association for the 1987 fiscal year. This report reviews the financial highlights of 1987 and examines the 1986 audit report, the most recent year for which audited data are available. Information about the current financial affairs of the Association are compared to previous years to provide historical perspective. Significant fiscal implications of the activities of the Boards and Committees on which the Treasurer serves are also briefly noted. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Annual Report of the Policy and Planning Board: 1977.

The Policy and Planning (P&P) Board met three times during 1977. Two regular meetings were held in Washington, D.C., on March 25-26 and October 14-15. In addition, the Board held a special retreat meeting, the first such in several years. This retreat meeting took place near the historic campus of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on July 8-10. At its March meeting, the Board devoted considerable time to discussing (a) the annual convention, (b) the report of the Task Force on APA and State Association Relations, and (c) the process of nominations for APA boards and committees. At its retreat meeting in Charlottesville, the Board took up a number of issues that required extended discussion. The organization and possible reorganization of the APA was a major focus. At its October meeting, the Board developed further issues raised at the retreat meeting and covered new ground as well. One issue was the status of graduate training and job availability in psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the past president: Psychologists in addictions.

Upon the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the American Psychological Association (APA), the author reflects on a number of events in the recent past that have increased the visibility of issues concerning psychological research and practice in the areas of alcoholism, drug abuse, and addictive behaviors. These issues have also provided an opportunity to reflect on the growth and development of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors (SPAB) from an organizational perspective, its publication, the Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, and continuing issues in practice and research. There remain many issues for SPAB and its members to address in the future, both in the areas of the addictions and organizationally. It is our hope that a benefit of divisional status will be additional support for our efforts to function more smoothly as an organization, in a way that is more facilitative of members and responsive to them. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the treasurer: 1989: The 1980s: A roller coaster decade for APA finances.

This report of the Treasurer provides information on the American Psychological Association's (APA) financial operations for the 1980s. From a financial perspective, the 1980s was unquestionably the most turbulent in the history of the APA. This report focuses on the revenues and expenses of the APA throughout the 1980s while giving a summary and conclusion of all the finances at the end of the report. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report from the APA Council of Representatives.

Summarizes the activities of the APA Council of Representatives at the 101st APA Convention in Toronto. A substantial portion of the report focuses on the decision to forestall the creation of the National College of Professional Psychology (NCPP) as a part of the APA. This report summarizes what NCPP is, the social forces at work in and out of APA that brought its initial rejection by Council, and the public and practice needs that will bring its eventual enactment in some form. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Incorporated, for the year 1966: Report of the Recording Secretary.

Presents the 1966 Report of the Recording Secretary of the American Psychological Association. The Recording Secretary provides an abbreviated account of actions by APA Council of Representatives and a few of his personal observations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Association for the Advancement of Psychology: 1977.

The Association for the Advancement of Psychology (AAP) is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1974 under the auspices of the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association. In the interest of psychology and the public, AAP interacts with Congress, the executive branch, and the judicial branch of the federal government. AAP is governed by a 24-member Board of Trustees selected equally, by mail ballot of AAP members, from the professional, public-social, and scientific sectors of psychology. Some major public-policy activities in 1977 included confirmation hearings on the new director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; Psychology-Medicare bills; the equal rights amendment; research, training, and service funding in the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Education, the National Science Foundation, the Veterans Administration, the Office of Naval Research, etc.; welfare reform; antidiscrimination amendments in employee insurance plans; President Carter's Commission on Mental Health; a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission against the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and the American Medical Association; services and provider status in CHAMPUS, the Veterans Administration, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and the military; governmental reorganization; the "Child Health Assessment Plan"; development of national health insurance proposals; the Community Mental Health Centers Act; rights of institutionalized persons; the Health Planning Act; educational and industrial testing; evaluation of persons with access to nuclear materials; the Professional Standards Review Organizations Act; the Consumer Protection Agency; federal workers' compensation; zero-based budgeting of federally funded programs; disability determination procedures in the Social Security Administration; protection of human subjects; and copyright law revision. AAP officials and staff also worked informally on a continuous basis with individual Representatives, Senators, and their staffs, as well as with the staffs of various committees in both Houses. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Final report to the Council of Representatives of the American Psychological Association from the Commission on the Composition of Council: 1967.

The Commission on the Composition of Council herewith submits its final report, prepared after detailed consideration of the many responses to its preliminary report, and recommends that it be published in an early issue of the American Psychologist. Recommendations are set forth, followed by comments. Not every member of the Commission agrees that each recommendation is the best among all alternatives considered, but in every instance a decisive majority favored each recommendation. The entire report represents a consensus of the Commission, which agreed that, as a whole, the recommendations provide a sound approach to the problems posed to the Commission. The first supplement to the present report is an analysis by Daniel Katz of the straw poll initiated by the Commission in response to early requests for empirical data on the probable membership in the proposed new division. Included are information on that point and other data about patterns of divisional membership as related to type of employment, interests, and professional identification. The second supplement is Dorothy Eichorn's background paper, which summarizes relevant current Bylaws and clarifies more specifically than is appropriate in the main body of this report several questions raised by the preliminary report. Each member of the Commission was encouraged to submit a commentary if he wished to elaborate any points he felt to be relevant to the Commission report. In the third supplement is one such paper, prepared by Isidor Chein at the urging of the writing committee. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Association for the Advancement of Psychology: 1984.

The Association for the Advancement of Psychology (AAP) serves as the public policy arm of the American Psychological Association (APA). This article discusses the AAP's public policy activities as well as providing recognition for psychologists in public law and information on AAP internal affairs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Composition of the Council of Representatives: Report on apportionment ballot.

Presents a report by the American Psychological Association Committee on Structure and Function of Council on the annual apportionment ballot. The annual apportionment ballot to determine the composition of Council for 1976 showed no major changes from the ballot of the previous year. The greatest change in any one unit's number of seats was two. The total number of Council members, as a result of the apportionment ballot, increased from 106 in 1975 to 108 in 1976, To this is added the 12 members of the Board of Directors to bring the overall total for 1976 to 120. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Composition of the Council of Representatives: Report on the apportionment ballot for representation year 1980.

Provides results from American Psychological Association apportionment ballots for Council representation in 1980. The current voting system is also described. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Composition of the Council of Representatives: Report on the apportionment ballot for representation year 1982.

Beginning with the 1973 legislative year, the size of the Council of Representatives was fixed at approximately 115 members, including the Board of Directors and APA officers. The purpose was to reduce the size of Council and to place a ceiling on the total number of Council members possible. Table 1 presents the number of Council seats held by divisions and the number held by state associations and coalitions for the period 1966-1982. It shows that since its inception, the present system has reduced and generally stabilized the number of Council representatives. The voting pattern has remained relatively constant since the adoption of the present apportionment system. In conjunction with the new system, the Council established a continuing committee called the Committee on Structure and Function of Council. Among other activities, this committee monitors the annual apportionment ballot and reports the results to Council. The results of the 1982 Council apportionment ballot are shown in Table 2. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Composition of the Council of Representatives: Report on the apportionment ballot for representation year 2012.

Each year, the apportionment ballot is used to determine how many representatives each division and state, provincial, and territorial association will have on the Council of Representatives. The system is described in Article V, Sections 6 and 7, of the American Psychological Association (APA) Bylaws. Briefly, all APA fellows, members, and voting associates are sent an apportionment ballot on or before November 1. Voting members indicate the division(s) and/or state, provincial, or territorial association(s) through which they desire to have their interests represented on Council in the following year by allocating a total of 10 votes to one or more of these groups. Table 1 presents the number of Council seats held by divisions and the number held by state, provincial, and territorial associations for the period 1980 –2012. The results of the 2010 apportionment ballot for Council year 2012 are shown in Table 2. A total of 12,510 ballots were returned, representing 14.7% of the voting membership. This compares with 16.2% who voted the previous year. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)