Article archive / September 2023
Originally published: . Volume 14, No. 9. Source pages: 15.
10 Years Ago! What the Times was reporting on in September 2013
Reality Series from West Monroe Breaks Records The Psychology Behind
A&E’s Hit, Duck Dynasty
Duck Dynasty follows the rags to riches, duck-hunting, family and faith-oriented, Robertson clan of West Monroe. The show is a combination of wholesome clowning around, with dashes of humor and life philosophy that cause you to think twice. A little silly at times, it doesn’t matter. These bearded, duck-hunting, Robertson men are likable, funny, and on occasion surprisingly profound. We asked some of our experts in the Louisiana community for their thoughts.– Dr. Mkay Bonner, Dr. Suzanne Chabaud, Dr. David Thomason, Dr. Susan Dardard.
New LSBEP Member Now Listed as MP
In late June, the state medical board listed Dr. Jessica Brown as qualifying for the medical psychologist certificate. This comes as a surprise to some in the Louisiana Psychological Association (LPA), where Brown had served as Legislative Chair during 2010 to 2011. Dr. Brown was recently appointed to the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists (LSBEP).
LSU I/O is “Gone for Good”
Says Psychology Chair
The Louisiana State University Industrial-Organization Psychology program is, “Gone for good,” current psychology chair Dr. Bob Mathews told the Times last week. “The official end of the program,” he said, “came at the end of last semester.” He said that the decision to narrow the overall program was a necessity. Dr. Tracey Rizutto, who along with Dr. Russell Matthews, led the specialty area at LSU psychology, told the Times, “The psych department has been a very difficult environment for the I/O program for the last 10 years or so.” Last year Rizutto moved to the LSU department of Human Resource & Leadership Development in the new School of Human Resource Education & Workforce Development, College of Human Science & Education. “The Human Resource and Leadership Development program is ecstatic to adopt the I/O training program,” Rizutto told the Times.
Psychology Gumbo
COMMENT: John W. Pickering, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in
private practice in Baton Rouge, serves on the teaching faculty of the Southern Louisiana (Psychology) Internship Consortium and the LSU-OLOL Psychiatric Residency Program, co-presenter of “A Day of Mindfulness for Mental Health Professionals." COMMENT: Yael Banai, PhD, South East Regional Resource Center, Juneau, Alaska. Employed by the Ascension Parish School Board where she had been a practicing school psychologist for 21 years, School Specialist Discussion Taking
Shape After Survey
The psychology board received 186 responses from licensed psychologists and school specialists for a community survey about opinions regarding multi-level licensing for the specialist in school psychology, board Executive Director Kelly Parker told the Times last week. The survey was developed by the School Specialist Task Force, a group formed following the 2013 Long-Range Planning meeting in March, 2013. The task force, led by school psychologist and psychology board chair, Dr. Rita Culross, is addressing the issues of multi-level licensing for the school specialist in psychology.
BP Programs in 2nd Year; Vulnerabilities
In Coastal Residents
It has been over 3 years since BP
officials finally capped the well that killed 11 men and dumped 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. […] The oil spill catastrophe generated a number of projects to help those impacted, including projects funded by the legal settlement with BP. One of these is the “Mental and Behavioral Health Capacity Project," led by Drs. Howard and Joy Osofsky, from LSU Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, now in its second year.
Violence Prevention Group Teams Up
With Louisiana Tech’s Dr. Igou
The Louisiana Coalition for Violence Prevention is teaming up with Dr. Frank Igou and his group from Louisiana Tech to design valid training systems for the Coalition’s program, the Coalition leaders said last week. Dr. Igou is Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology in the LaTech Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. John Simoneaux, a Coalition steering team member, said that the group will be working with Dr. Igou to develop ways to ensure that the training proposed by the Coalition will be scientifically designed. […] Along with Simoneaux, other steering group members of the Coalition include Yael Banai, PhD, Bryan Gros, PhD, Bobette Laurendine, LCSW, and Cindy Nardini, LPC.
APA Accredits LAS*PIC While
Funding Struggles Continue
Amid funding cuts in June that seriously endanger the future of Louisiana's premier training internship for school psychology, the American Psychological Association has renewed the accreditation of the LAS*PIC program for seven more years. The Louisiana school psychology internship consortium, called LAS*PIC, is a program of the Human Development Center of the LSU Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Weyand President-Elect China-
American Psychoanalytic Alliance
Carolyn Weyand, licensed psychologist, psychoanalyst, and
faculty member with the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Institute, is taking on the duties as President- Elect for the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance. The Alliance, called CAPA, is a non-profit organization with professionals from all over the world, including Mexico, Canada, Australia, France, Great Britain.
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