The Group Psychologist: July 2021

Welcome

President-elect’s column
Toward the internationalization of our division.
By Amy Nitza, PhD
Editors’ column
The power of connections.
By Thomas Treadwell, EdD, and Leann Terry Diederich

Div. 49 election results
Announcing our new president-elect and education/teaching representative.
By Cheri L. Marmarosh

Early Career Psychologist column
Outside the box thinking and group psychotherapy
By Misha Bogomaz, PsyD
The pandemic ending?
Tevya Zukor reflects on the pandemic’s ending and the role of mental health on college campuses: When I think about actually addressing the severe and pervasive mental health challenges that confront college students, I think about my Dream University.

Major project: 2025 resubmission for CRSPP recognition
The latest updates on group as a specialty
By Gary M. Burlingame, Noelle Lorraine Lefforge, PhD, ABPP, and Nina W. Brown, EdD

Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy (GPGP) Council
Group Specialty Council has been active in promoting the specialty for training programs.
By Nina W. Brown, EdD

Div. 49 is an approved Continuing Education provider
In the spring of 2021, Div. 49 was formally granted the ability to provide APA-approved CEs.
By Noelle Lorraine Lefforge, PhD, ABPP
Psychodrama as an effective treatment for trauma and PTSD experience
Recent findings have challenged trauma therapists to consider alternative and adjunctive approaches to talk therapy and cognitive approaches. At the same time, these new findings serve to validate experiential philosophy, theories, and approaches that Jacob Moreno proposed decades prior.

Prevention corner
Mental illnesses and COVID-19: What data from the past year shows us.
By Shana Ingram, BA

Becoming a female group leader
Shifting from a silent observer to an authority figure.
By Adriana Abadi

Most viewed articles in The Group Psychologist: October 21, 2020-May 21, 2021
Content on virtual groups, COVID-19 and racial equity performed well.
By Thomas Treadwell, EdD, and Leann Terry Diederich

2021 spring minutes (PDF, 142KB)opens in new window
Convention discussions and other news from the Div. 49 Board.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
APA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Office issued an EDI Framework.
By Eric C. Chen, PhD

You can get through this dark pandemic winter: Using tips from disaster psychology
Div. 49’s Amy Nitza, PhD, was interviewed in Scientific American about getting through the pandemic winter. Div. 49 provides a summary of the article and interview.