The Group Psychologist
A newsletter of Division 49
FEATURED ARTICLE
COLUMNS
- Group psychotherapy column: Sparky tilts at windmills
The author disagrees with two recent publications indicating group therapy exists for monetary savings and is less successful than individual therapy
- From your editors
The Div. 49 newsletter editors encourage members to reflect on the dynamics of their work and social groups, and acknowledge the current division president for developing a non-profit foundation for the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy
- President's column: Pledge to keep our society strong
The current division president remembers past-year successes including the new division website and logo, the creation of the Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy Foundation, the re-organization of the society representatives to APA committees and the huge success of the division’s programs at the annual convention
- President-elect's column
The division President-elect takes this opportunity to solicit input and feedback on suggested proposed initiatives and goals for 2012
PREVENTION CORNER
- Is it possible to get a job as a prevention psychologist?
The author attempts to answer questions about pursuing a career in prevention psychology
NOTABLE MEMBER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Zipora Shechtman's family & Nobel Prize-winning spouse
In our first installment of this new column, a fellow division member celebrates her husband winning the Nobel Prize for chemistry
AWARD WINNERS
- 2011 APA Conference poster sessions winners
Join us in congratulating the winners of the division poster session awards from the APA Annual Convention
- 2010 Dissertation Award
Broadening team composition research by conceptualizing team diversity as a cross-level moderating variable
COMMITTEE REPORTS
- Awards Committee report
The committee discusses nominees for three division awards
- Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education Report (CPSE)
The author provides an overview of the CPSE activities included at the APA Annual Convention and proposes new ideas for increasing the presence of division within the CPSE
- Development Committee report
The committee reviews their future goals and the possibility of proceeding with those ideas under new committee leadership
- Div. 49 board meeting minutes
Review the minutes from latest board meeting including updates from several committees heads
- Federal Advocacy Coordinator Committee report
The chair recaps the committee's accomplishments for the first half of 2011 and new goals for 2012