"Society for Unification Psychology" formed (12-85).

The Society for Unification Psychology ("SUNI"—pronounced as "sunny") was formed by a group of psychologists concerned about the growing issues of diversity and fragmentation in psychology. The Society held its first organizational meeting at the 1985 APA convention. It is intended that SUNI will become a special interest group of APA's Division 24, Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. The Society's purpose is to stimulate discussion of issues of unity and disunity in psychology by: (1) planning symposia and other presentations at APA and related conventions; (2) conducting Society interest group meetings at these conventions; and (3) publishing a Newsletter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The APA Visiting Scientist Program: 1966-67.

This discusses the seventh year of the APA'S Visiting Scientist Program supported by the National Science Foundation. The general purpose and procedures have been described in a series of six earlier reports (Ross, 1961, 1962, 1964, 196Sa, 1965b, 1966). The program has the following objectives: (a) to stimulate interest in the scientific aspects of psychology at the collegiate level; (6) to present some of the frontiers of psychological research and application to small institutions where psychology is not now fully developed; (c1) to provide an opportunity to administrative officers, staff members, and students at colleges to consult with leaders in psychological science; and (d) to stimulate students to consider careers in psychology, including the teaching of psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

APA Visiting Scientist Program: 1971-1972.

The American Psychological Association's Visiting Scientist Program has now completed its twelfth and final year of operation as a National Science Foundation-sponsored activity. The APA is planning to continue the program under the auspices of the Educational Affairs Office while seeking alternate funding. As in the past, the Visiting Scientist Program provided colleges and small universities with visits from eminent psychologists who offered their services as either scientific lecturers or educational consultants. Over 1,000 such visits have been made to educational institutions across the United States, 84 of which were made during 1971-1972. Throughout its existence the program has maintained the following objectives: (a) to stimulate interest in the scientific aspects of psychology at the collegiate level; (6) to present some of the new developments in psychological research and application; (c) to provide psychology departments with expert consultation regarding curricula, laboratories, staffing, programs, and procedures; (d) to acquaint students with the opportunities for advanced study and scientific and professional careers in psychology, including the teaching of psychology. For the last several years a special effort has been made to include psychologists and institutions which would serve as representatives of minority groups. This year's participants included 12 black psychologists, 9 women psychologists, and 1 Indian psychologist; 14 black institutions, and 2 women's colleges. The reports of the visits were very favorable, and the Educational Affairs Office would like to express its appreciation to all of those who contributed to the success of this year's program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents information that may be of interest to Division 26 members. Included are a link to the Division's website, as well as instructions for subscribing to the electronic mail list; a draft of Division 26's program at the 2000 American Psychological Association Annual Convention; and information about the 31st annual meeting of Cheiron. Also included are a report on the fourth colloquium of the Groupe d'études Pluridisciplinaires d'Historie de la Psychologie, which focused on the history of child psychology, and notes about personal accomplishments of several Division members. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Report of the President.

Presents a report reviewing the establishment of the Division on Addictions (Division 50) of the American Psychological Association (APA). Much like Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors before it, Division 50 will provide a home (within APA) for psychologists who are interested in addictive behaviors. Division 50 is well prepared to serve as the point of intersection within psychology between research and practice on addictive behaviors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents information of interest to members of APA's Division 26. Included are an election committee report; details concerning Division 26's awards for contributions in the history of psychology; a call for program proposals for the Division; fellows nominations; and a call for papers for the meeting of Cheiron, the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Also included are personal news items; a synopsis of a conference to honor the achievements of John A. Popplestone and Marion White McPherson, hosted by the Archives of the History of American Psychology; and a synopsis of a conference on "Measurement, Redemption, and Control: The Psychological in American History and Culture", held at Yale University. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Division 14's Testing Program.

This letter informs that the APA Division of Industrial Psychology (Division 14) appointed an ad hoc committee in 1962 to review the movement to establish a large-scale program for testing college students who might be seeking positions in industry. There has been an increasing interest shown in this by many organizations, and one attempt has been made to establish such a program by the National Industrial Conference Board, Inc. The Executive Committee of Division 14 has voted to accept and endorse the Statement of Principles devised by this committee. It has also voted to circulate the Statement of Principles to certain organizations who have shown interest in developing such a program, including the Psychological Corporation, the Educational Testing Service, Science Research Associates, Inc., College Placement Council, Inc., and Careers, Inc. The Statement of Principles and further considerations are outlined. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Helen Margulies Mehr (1916–1992).

Memorializes H. M. Mehr, co-founder of the American Psychological Association's Division 48 (Peace Psychology). Her commitment to peace and justice and her ability to create and participate in the community of peace psychologists have been acknowledged as powerful factors in the organizational development of peace psychology. In honor of her contributions and professional activism in peace psychology, the national organization of Psychologists for Social Responsibility established the Helen M. Mehr Fund, providing internships for psychology students to get experience in working for peace. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

This article provides information of interest to members of Division 26. It provides an election committee report, announces that two new journals on the history of psychology will soon begin publication, gives a brief synopsis of the 1999 annual meeting of Cheiron, and discusses the importance of checking one's facts so that erroneous material does not inadvertently get published. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Robert Q. Pollard.

From Robert Q. Pollard's national leadership in deafness and mental health service delivery, advocacy, research, and training and his innovative multidisciplinary mental health traineeship program exclusively for deaf individuals to his establishment of a vibrant special interest section on deafness within APA's Division of Rehabilitation Psychology, he has led the way to providing full access to the profession and to the services of the profession for deaf individuals. His commitment to and effective advancement of a psychology open to and appropriately serving deaf individuals and other persons with disabilities substantially advances psychology in the public interest and fulfills our discipline's highest aspiration: to advance human welfare. This journal discusses the life and contributions of Robert Q. Pollard which enabled him to win the Psychology in the Public Interest Award in 1994. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Note.

The American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology, Inc., announces that beginning steps have been taken to establish a diploma in the specialty of school psychology. At its meeting on September 5, 1967, the Board of Trustees responded favorably to a proposal submitted by the Division of School Psychologists, in which group of 15 to 20 Fellows will be selected by Division 16 to prepare forms and procedures for a trial-run oral examination of approximately five school psychologists in the spring of 1968. ABEPP Board of Trustees responds positively to the expressed and required needs of the profession of school psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Emory L. Cowen.

Presents an overview of the career contributions of Emory L. Cowen. For his remarkable contributions to conceptual, empirical and human service advances in the fields of community and clinical psychology, community mental health and education. He has been instrumental in the creation of a field for an entire generation of psychologists. His work has changed public schools throughout the United States. His ideas, research, model programs, program evaluations, and workshops have inspired others to generate new programs that provide affordable human services to thousands of children who are otherwise unlikely to receive help. He pioneered early detection and secondary prevention research. His clear thinking and conceptual challenges have fostered the study of primary prevention and wellness in mental health, both as a field for research and as a social policy. His tireless efforts as President of APA's Division of Community Psychology, a member of the Prevention Task Panel of the President's Commission on Mental Health, and the APA Task Force on Promotion, Prevention and Intervention Alternatives in Psychology are examples of his energetic contributions to psychology in the public interest. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

How to influence public policy: A blueprint for activism.

Public interest advocacy and political activism are vital to the guild interests of psychology, just as they are essential to the evolution of any discipline that seeks professional recognition outside of the university laboratory. Division 38 (Health Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA) has conducted monthly policy dinner meetings featuring national health policy experts as speakers to develop an appreciation within the division for the complexities of formulating public policy. Groups of psychologists outside the structure of the APA Central Office need to make efforts to build political support if psychology is to play a larger role in public policy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Association report: Division 24's 1986 convention program.

Presents the 1986 Convention Program of the American Psychological Association's Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. The quality of the submissions was high and the process of choosing which to include was difficult. The program allotment was expanded by two hours and thereby included almost sixty people on the program. Their papers address the spectrum of topics within philosophical and theoretical psychology. Several programs specifically address the issue of theoretical foundations of applied psychology, a special theme of this year's program. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

President’s column.

In this President's Column, the President announces the new Division 13 bulletin board that is now up and running across the Internet. The bulletin board will allow a forum for communication among Division 13 members in a way that we have not had before. Also announced is the Division program scheduled for the convention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents Division 26's program at the 1999 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, which will be held August 20-24 in Boston, Massachusetts. Also included here are information about APA's archives; the establishment of the Center for the History of Psychology (CHOP) at Staffordshire University; the German Open University in Hagen, which has become a major center for research and scholarship in the history of psychology; and the 18th annual conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences. There is also a call for papers for the fourth colloquium of the Groupe d'études Pluridisciplinaires d'Histoire de la Psychologie, which will explore the issues and debates in the background of child psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Teaching mental health and law: A reply to Shealy.

Comments on the article by A. E. Shealy (see record 2005-09632-004) describing the teaching approach in forensic psychology. The current author notes that if, as Shealy proposes, advantages and positive rewards are available to psychologists participating in the judicial system, then it is also important to evaluate the negative aspects. Furthermore, a confrontation of the inequities with the advocate and adversarial approach needs more exploration in Shealy's system. The author describes a graduate program in forensic psychology at the University of Washington, in which students in law, psychiatry, and psychology, psychology interns, and other health science professionals will be able to participate. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

News & notes.

Presents information of interest to Division 26 members. Included are information about the Council of Representatives apportionment ballot; a report of the Division 26 representative on the meeting of the APA Council of Representatives; and information about a ceremonial event that was held at APA's annual convention in 1999 that recognized John A. Popplestone and Marion White McPherson for their lifetime, career contributions to the field of psychology. Also included are several personal news items and a correction to the spelling of an individual's name in an earlier News & Notes section. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Undergraduate Psychology Majors.

Discusses the numbers and percentages of students who graduated with a major in psychology from Washington Square College between 1939 and 1960. The author states that if these trends are typical of what is happening in other colleges, then it can be expected that graduate departments of psychology will continue to have ample sources of recruitment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Edna Heidbreder (1890–1985).

Edna Heidbreder died in February, 1985 in Bedford, Massachusetts after a long life of distinguished contributions to psychology. Heidbreder is best known for her Seven Psychologies published in 1933. This book has taught history and systems of psychology to generations of students and is still doing so. Seven Psychologies was written when scientific psychology considered itself scarcely past its first half century; now the official centennial celebrations are behind us and psychology has changed vastly. Yet the book continues in use. While at the University of Minnesota, Heidbreder became interested in the then-young testing movement, particularly the testing of personality characteristics. She did early work in testing introversion and extraversion, the "normal inferiority complex," and related subjects. In her later work, Heidbreder returned to systematic problems. Heidbreder was active in the American Psychological Association (APA) and in other professional societies. She was a member of Council of APA, was president of Division 1, and was president of the Eastern Psychological Association. She was intensely interested in the education of women and in the colleges that encouraged women to develop and enjoy their abilities, including their intellectual abilities. Wellesley and Radcliffe gave her an opportunity to contribute to this effort, and this she did brilliantly. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)