Composition of the Council of Representatives: Report on the apportionment ballot for representation year 1990.

This article provides information concerning the apportionment ballot, which is used to determine how many representatives each division and state or provincial association will have on the Council of Representatives. This system is described further in the American Psychological Association's (APA's) bylaws. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Harry F. Harlow: American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award.

Recognizes receipt of the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award. Harry F. Harlow is this year's recipient of the Gold Medal Award. The accompanying article notes that Dr. Harlow has built a distinguished scientific career upon the study of basic psychological phenomena that are simultaneously of great scientific interest and great social importance. It is fair to say that, while he has been concerned with learning and behavior changes accompanying maturation from infancy to adulthood, and while he has shown some interest in therapeutic communities, a larger share of his attention has been given to affective behavior--especially to the affective relations between parents and offspring and to the pathologies of these relations. The American Psychological Association Foundation presents its Gold Medal Award to a senior American psychologist in recognition of a distinguished and long-continued record of scientific and scholarly accomplishment. With the Medal goes a cash award of $1,000. Past recipients of the Gold Medal Award are Robert Sessions Woodworth, Edwin R. Guthrie, Edwin G. Boring, John F. Dashiell, Walter R. Miles, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Kliiver, Karl M. Dallenbach, Floyd H. Allport, Henry A. Murray, Sidney L. Pressey, B. F. Skinner, and Gardner Murphy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Gabriela Livas Stein: APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography for Gabriela Livas Stein, the 2007 recipient of the American Psychological Association's APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Model act for state licensure of psychologists.

As APA policy, the Model Act for State Licensure of Psychologists serves as a prototype for drafting state legislation regulating the practice of psychology. State legislatures are encouraged to use the language of this document and the policies that it espouses as the model for their own state licensure laws. Inevitably each state law will reflect compromises and changes particular to that state, but the APA Model Act is meant to serve as a guide for those involved in the drafting process. State licensing boards must develop their own rules and regulations to supplement the legislation proposed here. This document also serves to educate legislatures about psychology training and practice and serves to synthesize APA policies that bear on the education, training, and practice of professional psychology. Each section of the proposed Model Act is introduced by commentary, the purpose of which is to explain the rationale for the proposed section that follows. To differentiate between the commentary and the proposed statutory language, the latter is italicized. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

APA-accredited doctoral programs in professional psychology: 1985.

The Committee on Accreditation has accredited the doctoral training programs in clinical, counseling, and school psychology that are conducted by the institutions below. The original date of accreditation, listed for each program, is the day on which the program's accredited status became effective. According to Section 9.c of the Accreditation Procedures, accreditation is effective as of the last day of the initial site visit, the report of which was among the documents used in reaching the accreditation decision. Any student enrolled in a program as of the date accreditation becomes effective is considered a graduate of an accredited program. Readers who desire information on training goals and approaches of specific programs are encouraged to write directly to the departments in which the programs are offered. The criteria for evaluating these programs can be obtained from the APA Accreditation Office. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)