Reginald L. Jones: Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training.

Provides the biography of Reginald L. Jones and announces that he has won the Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training for a body of materials that instruct, enlighten, and both coalesce and expand the knowledge base in psychology and education. By documenting the history, theories, and research in the area of Black psychology, he has been heralded worldwide as a father of Black psychology. A selected bibliography is also provided. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

稳态Kalman滤波器增益新算法

应用现代时间序列分析方法,基于ARMA新息模型,提出了稳态Kalman滤波器增 益的两种简单的新算法,并证明了它们的等价性.应用ARMA新息模型参数的递推辨识器 伴随新算法,可实现自校正Kalman滤波器.仿真例子说明了其有效性.     

Conceptualizing Exposure to Community Violence: An Application of Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

The primary goal of the present study was to demonstrate how the technique of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) could be applied to common measurement issues within the school psychology literature. Specifically, the CFA technique was used to test several alternative factor structures thought to underlie a commonly used measure of exposure to community violence. Data were collected from 242 elementary and middle-school, inner city, African American students. Results illustrate the potential benefits and limitations of applying CFA. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Supplement to Listing of Accredited Doctoral, Internship, and Postdoctoral Training Programs in Professional Psychology.

The American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Accreditation announces the following changes in the listing of accredited doctoral (clinical, counseling, school, and combined professional-scientific), internship, and postdoctoral residency programs in professional psychology. These changes update the listing in the December 2002 issue of the American Psychologist. Except for newly accredited programs, updates for the year of next review will not appear in this listing but will be updated annually in December. Complete listings are available on request from the APA Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation. The complete listings also are provided via electronic means (http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation/), but those listings are for informational purposes only and should not be used for official credential review. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Madhouse and The Lobotomist.

Reviews the books, Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine by Andrew Scull (see record 2005-06776-000); and The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness by Jack El-Hai (see record 2005-02343-000). In both books, the history of experimental clinical psychiatry is laid bare with devastating accounts of the efforts to conquer mental illness by any means necessary. Both books are fascinating reading and may illuminate our current context in which the biological avenues for treating mental disorders continue to traffic in hopes of a one-size-fits-all cure, while psychoanalysis ambivalently struggles with how to conduct rigorous research to demonstrate the efficacy of our treatment. Andrew Scull's book Madhouse offers a well-documented historical account of a bizarre episode in American psychiatric history. The centerpiece of Scull's investigative work is Henry Cotton, MD, the superintendent of the Trenton State Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey, from 1907-1930. Once Cotton arrived at Trenton, he was appalled by the conditions he found and instituted reforms such as eliminating the culture of violence by attendants, removing over 700 pieces of restraining equipment from the hospital, and introducing occupational therapy. Jack El-Hai gives us the next segment of psychiatric surgery in his book The Lobotomist, a biography of the neurologist, turned surgical outlaw, Walter Freeman, MD. Walter Freeman was a neurologist fascinated with science and experimentation. Settling into work at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Washington, DC, in 1924, Freeman eventually joined the faculty of George Washington University where he remained until 1954. At that time neurosyphilis was the scourge of mental hospitals producing thousands of victims who were totally disabled by the neurological sequellae of tertiary illness. Thus lobotomy became an efficient outpatient procedure that could be applied to a larger patient population. Both of these books are important reading. Of all the great medical advances of the last century, surely the one that stands out as perhaps the greatest is the Nuremberg Code of 1947, which requires a competent patient giving informed consent to treatment and to research efforts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Responding to the Needs of Children, Families, and Schools: The 2002 Multisite Conference on the Future of School Psychology.

The preparations for and the implementation of the 2002 Multisite Conference on the Future of School Psychology are described. The conference goals were to (a) achieve consensus on current and future demands for school psychologists and our profession's ability to meet those demands; (b) conceptualize the practice of school psychology in the face of diminishing numbers and increasing demand for services; and (c) develop an agenda to use the resources we have to maximize the benefits to the children and schools that we serve. A problem-solving model served as the conceptual foundation of the conference. School psychologists at the host site in Indianapolis and 30 remote sites collaborated to identify threats, opportunities, strategies, and action plans to respond better to the needs of children, families and schools. The conference not only generated excitement and hope for our future, but also provided a framework to propel the current and future practice of school psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

企业生产经营中的市场需求分析

本文论述了企业经济活动中的市场需求分析的概念及其三个层次，并着重讨论了模糊评判在企业市场占有率分析中的应用以及它们对企业生产经营决策的影响。     

浅谈室内设计的可持续发展

通过对室内装饰设计中的绿化和智能化,现代室内设计文化、经营策略和服务技巧的初步分析,诠释了室内设计的可持续发展.     

President’s column: "The Catalyst Division" vision: Strengthening our core.

Driven by individual consumer demand for balance in work and family lifestyles, organizational demand for effectiveness and total quality management (TQM), advances in psychological knowledge and consulting know-how, competent practitioners, and a strong American Psychological Association (APA), the practice of consulting psychology is growing. This, in turn, increases the demands placed on the Division of Consulting Psychology and creates the need for a strong infrastructure to serve its constituents. During the 1995-1996 year, we will strengthen our core in the following five areas: committees, constituents, knowledge, practice, and training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)