Humanistic psychology: The ultimate singularity in the behavioral science universe?

Claims that M. Wertheimer's (see record 1979-22531-001) examination of humanistic psychology lacks (1) dispassion; (2) decontaminated, adequate, and recent data; and (3) recognition of the multidisciplinary nature of the species. Wertheimer is accused of resurrecting a once lively debate, desiring to be a catalyst, and indulging in wishful thinking. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Liaison to the International Council of Psychologists report.

Presents brief remarks regarding the International Council of Psychologists (ICP) and their annual meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 14-18, 1992. A regional meeting was conducted in Padua, Italy the preceding week. Approximately 280 persons representing 40 countries attended this 51st ICP meeting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The quest for executive effectiveness: Consultants bridge the gap between psychological research and organizational application.

However we picture success for ourselves as consulting psychologists or for the executives and clients with whom we work, the role as pathfinder and mapmaker identifies those who "make a diference." Effectiveness for both consultant and executive calls for competencies in dealing with individual, group, and organizational-level issues. Critical competencies are discussed under the headings vision, motivation, and action. The ability to conceptualize, or to envision, relies on updated mental processes and stagnates without motivational astuteness. Key to motivation is emotional wisdom, the management of vital sign emotions: curiosity, anxiety, and anger. Finally, the invitational leadership approach (ILA) is presented as a synthesis of leadership research to assist a consultant or an executive in execution of the action competencies that get an organization moving in a coordinated, constructive direction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Task Force on Organizational Renewal report.

Presents a report from the APA's Division 13 (Consulting Psychology) Task Force on Organizational Renewal. The report includes priorities for maintaining progress on goals established during the 1991 midwinter meeting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The best of consulting psychology 1900-2000: Insider perspectives.

A Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP), survey, The Best of the Century (BoC) found Freud, Lewin, Maslow, and Argyris to have the "strongest influence on consulting psychology" in the 20th century. Lewin, Kelly, and Levinson were identified as having the "most influence on my practice." Organizational Diagnosis (Levinson, 1972) was considered the most significant contribution to consulting psychology literature. Modeled on the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1954), the BoC survey asked about: (1) influences on the practice of consulting psychology (CP); (2) influences on the respondent's consulting practice; (3) books and articles that influenced CP; (4) unfinished business that will impact the future; and, (5) notable achievements or blunders of the 20th century. Personality theories and intervention methods were considered the greatest achievement. "Overestimating, overselling, overemphasizing, and overdoing of behaviorism" received resounding endorsement as the blunder of the century. The pressing future need was seen as an identity issue: What differentiates consulting psychologists from other types of consultants? How can psychologists influence public perceptions of what consulting psychologists do, and can do? The caveat for the future: avoiding cookie-cutter approaches. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Consulting competently in multicultural contexts.

This article presents personalized reactions to the special issue on Culture, Race, and Ethnicity Challenges in Organizational Consulting Psychology. The first part of the article presents the responses of 4 consulting psychologists to 4 questions. The 4 consultants, an African American woman and man and an Anglo American woman and man, were selected based on their experiences in working with consultees and client systems where diversity and multicultural factors mattered. The second part of the article identifies the common themes that emerged from their 4 narratives plus suggestions to assist consultants in better working with consultees and client systems of diverse culture, race, and ethnicity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A history of Division 13 initiatives on education and training in consulting psychology.

Arguably, the Division of Consulting Psychology (Division 13) holds seniority status among the growing numbers of American Psychological Association (APA) divisions. Moreover Division 13 inherits a specific challenge from APA founders: to identify and ascertain which psychologists are qualified to perform as consulting psychologists. APA's 1915 Whiple Resolution first called attention to the need to differentiate professionally qualified psychological examiners and experts from consultants without scientific psychological knowledge and experience who were offering services and opinions for public consumption. The process involved identifying salient knowledge and literature, conducting demographic surveys, determining important training experiences and career settings, and cataloging types of clients and services. Interest in working as a consulting psychologist intensified division efforts to complete and disseminate guidelines for doctoral programs in consulting psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Principles for education and training at the doctoral and postdoctoral level in consulting psychology/organizational.

This document outlines the expected competencies to be obtained by persons receiving training at the doctoral or postdoctoral level in consulting psychology (CP). It was prepared to assist faculty and academic administrators in designing doctoral or postdoctoral programs in CP. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Correction and comment: "Becoming a consultant: The real stories" (Leonard, 1999).

Distinctions in appointed and elected government positions are additions to H. S. Leonard (see record 1999-10840-001). Clarifications give tribute to two mentoring psychologists who died in February and March, 1999, respectively: Lyman V. Ginger, educational psychologist and elected official in Kentucky, and Arthur W. Combs, humanistic psychologist and perceptual/person-centered theorist in Colorado. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Mary Hawley McCaulley (1920-2003).

Presents an obituary for Mary Hawley McCaulley, who passed away on August 26, 2003. Dr. McCaulley was widely recognized for her work as the clinical psychologist who spearheaded the effort to establish empirical support for the typology theory articulated by Carl Jung and two American educators, Isabel Myers and her mother, Katharine Briggs. The assessment instrument developed to promote applications of Jung's typology theory is known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and McCaulley collaborated with Myers to create the first MBTI computer scoring program. Dr. McCaulley's priorities were education, counseling, multicultural personality assessment, leadership development, career planning, and psychometrics for the MBTI. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)