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The Louisiana Group Psychotherapy Association will present an AGPA (American Group Psychotherapy Association) course to for new professionals in this area of practice. The course is to be held Friday, August 3 and Saturday, August 4, 2012.
According to their website, Karen Travis will teach the therapy training course designed to help professionals move toward group therapy certification.
Principals of Group Psychotherapy is a 12-hour, core course, developed by AGPA. It is designed to provide foundations in theory, principles and applications for group psychotherapy and is provided for those seeking CGP, the Certified Group Psychotherapist credential.
“The workshop will be didactic and experiential in nature,” according to information on LGPA website. “Participants will be involved in the group process and teaching will occur from the experiential group. Foundations of group, group process and dynamics, role of the group leader, the change process in group, and some short-term, structured and thematic group approaches will be discussed. This course meets partial requirements for the Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP).”
For additional information go to http://www.lgpsonline.org/
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The “Behavior Analysts Licensure and Regulation Study Commission,” a group created by a 2012 Senate Resolution, is scheduled to meet this Friday, August 3, at the DHH offices in Baton Rouge, according to information provided by the Chair, Ashley Munn.
A list of those participating and who will be repre- senting various agencies and groups, was provided to the Times. The commission has met once so far, in July, and Munn said, “…it was very much introductory in nature.” She explained that it is an open meeting and all individuals are free to attend.
The Study Commission was initially formed by Senate Resolution 110, which was amended by 142 and 159, and authored by J.P. Senator Morrell. Senator Morrell emerged as a leading opponent of the psychology board’s effort to develop regulations for Behavior Analysts under the state LSBEP (Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists) in a series of bills authored by Senator Dan Claitor on behalf of the LSBEP.
As indicated in the Senate resolution, the chair and vice-chair of the Study Commission are to be filled by parents of youngsters receiving assistance from behavior analysts. They were appointed by the president of the Senate and by the Chair of the Senate Health & Welfare Committee, respectively.
The Chair of the Study Commission is Ms. Ashley Munn from Baton Rouge and the Vice Chair is Ms. Catherine Morrell from New Orleans.
According to the handout shared with the Times by the Chair Ashley Munn, the group will discuss the components of licensure at their second meeting this week.
On September 7, the group is scheduled to finish up discussion about the components of licensure and “develop key points of licensure.”
Also a sub-committee is scheduled to discuss the report draft, according to the meeting schedule. On October 5, 2012 the group is due to discuss possible regulatory boards.
Additional monthly meetings are scheduled and the final report draft is to be completed by January 25, 2013.
Cheryl Knight, OCDD, Coordinator, Autism Initiative, will represent the Department of Health and Hospitals.
Kim Percle, will represent the State Superintendent of Education.
Kelly Parker, Executive Director of LSBEP is representing the psychology board.
Mary Alice Olsan, is Executive Director of and representing the Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners.
Grant Gautreaux, PhD is representing Louisiana Behavior Analysis Association (LaBAA).
Cassie Bradford is the alternate representative for LaBAA, according to the list provided.
Dawn Richard, is representing Pathology and Audiology and is a board member of the Louisiana Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
Dean Steven Welsh is serving for Dean of the College of Education, Nicholls State University.
Lacey Seymour, PhD, is representing Louisiana Psychological Association.
John McBride, LCSW, is representing the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners.
Robert Marier, MD, Executive Director of the state medical board, is representing that body.
Elizabeth Christian, MD, is representing the Developmental Disabilities Council.
Michael Malinowski, law professor, will represent the Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
Dena Matenzbacher, PhD, is representing the Psychology Department at McNeese State University. Alternates for McNeese are Denise Arellano, PhD, and Cam Melville, PhD.
Jodi Kamps, PhD, is representing Autism Center at Children’s Hospital.
And Tony L. “Bo” Vets, II, BCaBA, is representing St. Mary’s Residential Training School.
Executive Director of the state psychology board, Ms. Kelly Parker, at a recent meeting of the board. Parker will represent the board in the Behavior Analysts Licensure and Regulation Study Commission this year.
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The governor signed a bill requiring teachers to schedule at least two parent-teacher conferences during the first semester of each school year. “At least one parent or guardian of the child shall attend or participate in at least one of the scheduled parent-teacher conferences.” If the child’s academic record is sound, the parent may not be required to attend.
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Professional Training Resources, owned by Dr. John Simmoneaux announced it Fall events.
Included in the upcoming schedule of training is “Violence Across the Lifespan,” to be presented September 14, 2012 in Baton Rouge at the Marriot. This workshop will also be held in Monroe on October 19 and Lafayette on November 2, 2012.
“OCD: Is this Really an Anxiety Disorder?” will be presented September 19, 2012 as a online webinar. “Unusual Syndromes and Conditions in Children,” also presented online will be held October 10, 2012. For additional information go to http://professionaltrainingresourcesinc.com
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Gov Appoints Dr. Burnett To LSBEP Dr. Lee Matthews New Chair
On Friday Governor Jindal announced his appointment of Dr. Darla Burnett to the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists for a five-year term. Dr. Burnett is a self-employed clinical and medical psychologist from the Baton Rouge metropolitan area. She is past president of the Louisiana Psychological Association.
Dr. Burnett received the highest number of votes in the election conducted by the state psychological association this winter, edging out Dr. Gary Jones, by ten votes in a January election. Jones is LSU Shreveport, Department Chair. Also running was Dr. Arnold James.
Burnett’s appointment marks other changes in the board as Dr. Tony Young completes his service as member, Vice Chair, and who served this past year as Chair. Dr. Young was appointed in 2010 to fill a partial term left by a vacancy because of the resignation of Dr. Glenn Ally.
Dr. Lee Matthews, who filled a position left by Dr. Paul Dammers, will serve as Chair for 2012-2013, according to the website. Dr. John Courtney will serve as Vice Chair.
Drs. Rita Culross and Marc Zimmermann continue on as members, joined by Dr. Burnett.
According to the LSBEP website, Dr. Matthews and Dr. Courtney will lead the Complaints Committee, and the Jurisprudence Exam Committee.
Dr. Burnett and Dr. Courtney will lead the Legislative Oversight Committee.
Supervision and Credentials Review will be chaired by Dr. Culross and Dr. Burnett will be the Vice Chair.
Dr. Zimmermann and Dr. Culross will Chair and Vice- Chair the Oral Exam and Continuing Education Committees.
Executive Director Kelly Parker and Dr. Courtney will comprise the Ad hoc Committee regarding Behavior Analysts.
The current composition of the psychology board includes three medical psychologists, one clinical/neuropsychologist, (Dr. Matthews) and a psychologist from an academic setting (Dr. Culross).
Dr. Burnett is a clinical and medical psychologist. Her PhD is from U. of Southern Mississippi. She has been licensed in Louisiana since 2001. She has served as president of LPA and as Federal Advocacy Coordinator. She holds a certificate for medical psychology from 2010.
Dr. Darla Burnett
Dr. Tony Young (back) and Dr. Lee Matthews listen with concern to issues at a recent psychology board meeting. Dr. Young completed his service on the board as of June 2012, having traveled back and forth from the Monroe-Ruston area to attend meetings. He is a faculty member in the psychology department at La Tech. Dr. Matthews succeeds Dr. Young as Chair.
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A Senate bill authored by Senator Murray and Morrell amends and adds to current law and will require the Department of Corrections to assess a child’s academic grade level and develop a written academic plan for that youngster following his or her “adjudication of delinquency…”
The Office of Juvenile Justice operates facilities for youth placed in its custody, and three alternative schools at certain facilities.
The academic plan is to include the grade level diagnostic test results, using “a research-based diagnostic tool,” past academic performance, and an “individualized education plan or individualized plan, as applicable.”
According to the new legislation, if the child tests at grade level or above, the learning plan is to be developed so that the child can earn a high school diploma, GED, or certificate of achievement from a Special School District.
If the child is below grade level, the learning plan is to be structured “to bring the child’s academic performance up to grade level or as reasonably close thereto as possible, during the period the child is in the department’s secure custody.”
Copies of the academic plan and progress reports are to be provided to the parents, district attorney, and child’s counsel.
The current law states, “According to statistics compiled by the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), nearly eighty- five percent of American youth in the juvenile court system are functionally illiterate and more than seventy percent of adult prison inmates cannot read above a fourth-grade level.”
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BP Funds Health Projects in LA Coastal Community LSUHSC Professors Lead Mental and Behavioral Health Project
A legal settlement for health issues will provide $105 million to projects aimed at increasing the availability of healthcare to the coastal communities in Louisiana and four other states.
As part of the 432-page class action medical settlement between plaintiffs and BP, which set out compensation procedures for those with illnesses arising from the spill, BP agreed to allocate $105 million for four projects to support residents’ primary and psychological care.
The coordinated efforts are to help coastal residents in four states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the panhandle of Florida. The projects will target the Louisiana coastal communities in Lafourche, Cameron, Terrebonne, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Orleans, and Plaquemines parishes (see photo).
Collectively the four healthcare promotion projects are named the “Gulf Region Health Outreach Program.” According to court papers, the goal is to “expand capacity for and access to high quality, sustainable, community-based healthcare services, including primary care, behavioral and mental health care, and environmental medicine, in the Gulf Coast communities …” in the four states.
Dr. Joy Osofsky, psychologist and Barbara Lemann Professor in Pediatrics and Psychiatry at LSU Health Sciences Center, will co-lead one of the projects. She spoke with the Times, saying, “One of the unique things about this project will be the focus on community-based, integrated approaches.”
She noted that efforts will aim toward strengthening the capacity of clinics and school-based services that already exist within the communities.
“The Project will work collaboratively with schools in impacted areas,” she explained, “to support the counselors and social workers in providing school- based services including training, assessment, consultation, prevention and resilience building programs, and time-limited interventions with individuals and with support groups.”
The particular goal of integrated, community- based services was noted in the settlement. Residents of the Gulf Coast “… face health care challenges that are severe and specific to the particular geography, demography, and economy of this region,” wrote the authors.
“For rural residents in particular, proximity to facilities, cost of treatment, and lack of insurance and transportation make access to quality primary care, behavioral and mental health services, and environmental medical services an ongoing problem.” The issues also include cultural and language barriers and that community health clinics being overburdened due to the impact of recent hurricanes, the authors noted.
The four projects are to weave together and address physical and psychological needs of those in the coastal communities along the Gulf.
Dr. Osofsky explained, “Having psychologists working collaboratively with primary care doctors and psychiatrists in clinic settings in areas heavily impacted by the oil spill will provide the opportunity to outreach to communities, reach more people in need of mental health consultation and services and “de- stigmatize” the delivery of mental and behavioral health services.”
She has been following the status of people in the spill-affected areas. She and others helped to gather survey data from more that 2,000 people, and discovered ongoing psychological issues related to the Deepwater Horizon incident. (See table.)
“The data following the oil spill and other data related to risk indicate a significant relationship between health and mental and behavioral health issues,” she said. “This project has the opportunity to address these issues to improve outcomes.”
A grant of $50 million will go into the “Primary Care Capacity Project,” to help expand primary care services and to build additional capabilities for the region. The Louisiana Public Health Institute and the Alliance Institute in New Orleans will manage this project.
The “Mental and Behavioral Health Capacity Project,” will receive $36 million to address “behavioral and mental health needs, expertise, capacity, and literacy in the Gulf Coast communities …” Dr. Howard Osofsky and Dr Joy Osofsky are project leaders for the Louisiana project through LSU Health Sciences Center and the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics.
“We will be providing psychologists,” Osofsky noted, “as well as other mental health professionals to work with us on this project.”
According to the budget published in the legal papers, nearly $8 million will go toward supplemental therapeutic treatment for individuals in need, during the first two years of the project.
“The MBHCP will be focusing on mental and behavioral health concerns for individuals impacted by the oil spill,” she said. “As occupational stresses and job losses impact on these individuals and they are identified in Federally Qualified Health Centers and other primary care clinics, the MBHCP will deliver supplemental therapeutic services and supportive strength-based services as needed.”
Colleague Dr. Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling at U. of South Alabama, will be “… targeting our efforts toward children, families, and adults who are presenting at Federally Qualified Health Centers,” she told the Times. “I am very excited to be a part of this project; it is a tremendous opportunity for our region.”
Also leading will be University of Southern Mississippi’s Dr. Timothy Rehner, and University of West Florida’s, Dr. Glenn Rohrer.
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will receive $15 million for the “Environmental Health Capacity and Literacy Project.” Dr. Maureen Litchveld is project leader. The goal will be to improve environmental health expertise along the Gulf Coast communities.
Dr. Steven Picou from the U. of South Alabama will lead a project to train community health workers, “Community Health Workers Training Project.”
The projects are to build on the existing Federally Qualified Health Center model and the Primary Care Medical Home models, measure community health needs, build health clinic capacity, and to promote community engagement.
Some of the services to be enhanced are family medicine, laboratory, dental, mental and behavioral health, and substance abuse screening.
Other studies are in progress including the LSU HSC “Women and Their Children’s Gulf Health Consortium” (WATCH) and the Tulane School of Public Health’s GROWH study, the Trans- disciplinary Research Consortium for Gulf Resilience on Women’s Health.”
April 2010 — “In-situ burn” to attempt to prevent the spread of oil following explosion at Deepwater Horizon. (Photo by Navy Specialist 2nd Class Justin Stumberg)
From court documents of the BP Medical Settlement. Green outline shows coastal areas of those in the target areas. Grand Isle is Zone A.
Results of survey conducted of 2,000 people in affected areas along the Gulf Coast. (Court documents from BP Medical Settlement.)
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GlaxoSmithKline To Pay Largest Fraud Settlement Yet Challenges La Attorney General’s 2011 Lawsuit
GlaxoSmithKline agreed to pay $3 billion in fines and to plead guilty to criminal charges for promoting its top selling antidepressants for improper uses, improper marketing of drugs, and for hiding safety data about their diabetes drug, according to the New York Times report of announcements by federal prosecutors in July.
The settlement involved illegal marketing of Paxil , Wellbutrin, and Avandia, and adds to the list of large recent settlements with pharmaceutical companies.
Other settlements include Abbott Laboratories settled for $1.6 billion over the marketing of Depakote and Johnson & Johnson who could pay $2 billion for improper marketing of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, noted the report.
Past settlements also include $2.3 billion Pfizer fine for marketing of a painkiller drug and Eli Lilly’s $1.4 billion settlement for Zyprexa, according to Bloombery Business.
Bloombery noted that at least 41 whistleblower complaints have been filed in U.S. federal fraud cases.
In June GlaxoSmithKline filed a suit against Louisiana’s Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, which challenges a lawsuit the Attorney General had filed in 2011 against Glaxo. This according to Pharmalot’s reporter Ed Silverman.
The 2011 suit by Louisiana’s Attorney General charged that Glaxo knowingly and fraudulently marketed Avandia to Louisiana citizens causing harm and additional medical costs in the state’s Medicaid program. The state is asking $12.3 billion in damages.
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It’s been over two years since officials finally capped the well that killed 11 men and dumped 5 million barrels of crude, and to some people’s alarm, 700,000 plus gallons of dispersants, into the Gulf. For many in Louisiana, Deepwater Horizon is over. But as with most disasters, the lyrics of Randy Newman’s song Louisiana, apply: “Some people got lost in the flood. Some people got away alright.”
In 2010 during the crisis, the distress was evident. Psychologist Dr. Anthony Speier, then Deputy Assistant Secretary at DHH, (now Assistant Secretary) had told the Times, “We have had 11,000 contacts and 23,000 crisis counseling interventions.” He noted the increased frustrations and weariness among people “who have a tradition of living off the land.”
He said, “There is an increased worry and anxiety among those who can’t find jobs, and concern over the security of their future, and loss of a way of life.” He explained the agency saw more stress, anxiety, and more drinking during the early period of the spill.
Dr. Kim VanGeffen, who served as President of the nationally recognized community service call center, Via Link, noted during the 2010 crisis that there was a range of reasons for people contacting the center. “Via Link is also getting calls from people with questions such as the safety of water supplies and seafood. They are also providing telephone numbers of BP departments that people need to contact. They also anticipate crisis/suicide calls related to the oil spill much as we experienced after Katrina.”
She agreed with Speier during the 2010 period, expecting the most impact on those “… citizens whose livelihoods depend on the Gulf.”
Today, the calls have dropped off dramatically, explained VIA Link’s Richard LaPratt, Program and Services Director who oversees all calls at the center. He told the Times, “What we’re seeing in calls is that they have dropped dramatically with us.” At first, the call center was flooded with calls.
“… Our call center was out in front of everyone. We had a huge influx of calls, all types of calls, for housing, shelter, claims information.”
Through April 2010 to June the center had 1668 calls from people. “… a large portion of those were people wanting to volunteer to help,” he said.
Then the calls dropped off to approximately 400 per month from those seeking assistance. From “October to December the calls for assistance dropped to about 125,” said LaPratt. Then, “Calls leveled off to from 20 to 80 and now we are not getting a lot of oil spill related calls. But we continue to get those for information, claims, rent, household problems.”
Why? He explained, “Because the people most affected, those living in close-knit coastal communities don’t call. Plaquemines was one of the hardest hit,” said LePratt. “A lot of these communities don’t go outside their walls. Like Plaquemines. There is a Korean community there and they were hit hard.” It was similar in others across the coastline, especially in those communities where individuals depended on the gulf for their livelihood.
While some people took the original payments from BP in order to survive in the months after the explosion and fishing bans, others received no compensation. An example is the shrimp processors.
In a press release in April, the American Shrimp Processors Association was critical of the Deepwater Horizon settlement noting the settlement excluded links in the seafood supply chain such docks, processors, and distributors.
“I simply can’t comprehend how after two years they don’t understand the difference between a seafood dock or processing business and a shoe store,” noted Executive Director for the shrimp processors David Veal.
“It is a slow rebuild,” Via Link’s LaPratt said. “It’s coming back very slowly. To a large extend that profession is now gone,” speaking about the one-man or two-man fisherman business.
“Were they able to weather the storm? Many were living hand to mouth, and for six to eight months they had nothing. What you’re seeing is that a lot of these people had to change their life,” LaPratt said.
“The short term is one view, the long-term is not so easy to look at. The real recovery is far from over,” he said.
Storefront of a small, family-owned business in the Gulf area. The store’s owners depended on distributors and fisherman from the Gulf, and closed shortly following the Deepwater Horizon spill when public concern about the seafood was high and fishing bans were in place. The store never reopened. The building has stayed vacant.
A blood test showing volatile solvents (Metamextrix). This is from the blood of a person who lives along the coast and eats the seafood. It is not known what the source of this exposure was however. The test was done almost a year after the spill.
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APA Membership Problems Analyzed On Popular PsychCentral Website Average Age of APA Member is 54
In a July article on the popular site “PsychCentral, John Grohol, PsyD, CEO of the cite, examined the reasons for the drop in membership numbers for the American Psychological Association.
The article pointed to a 7.6 percent drop in membership between 2010 and 2011, from 91,306 to 84,339 in 2011. One commenter suggested the change was due to an artifact of how the non-dues paying membership is counted.
Grohol, who is a member of APA, noted several reasons for membership problems, including the economy, lack of perceived benefits, the torture controversy, and the practice assessment controversy.
The PsychCentral report also pointed to a similar drop in the membership of the American Psychiatric Association, from around 35,000 to around 33,000 in the last years.
And, Grohol said that the average age of the APA member was over 54 years.
He pointed out that Association for Psychological Science has seen a steady increase in members, about 4 percent per year, up to 23,500 since 2007’s 20,200.
He also pointed out that APA lists themselves on the site as having 150,000 members but actually have around 84,000 members.
Grohol is on the editorial board of Cyber- psychology, Behavior and Social Networking, as well as the founder of Psych Central. He wrote, “With access to social media and other communications modalities not as readily available 20 years ago, some of APA’s purpose […] is going away, replaced by profession- neutral organizations.”
In a recent APA organizational development report called the “Good Governance Project,” team members listed issues in the culture of APA including: “feel disempowered,” “perception of in-crowd, governance ‘junkies,’” “closed system – secretive, exclusive,” “staff-governance tension,” “cynicism,” and “focused on self- interests of subgroup.”
In 2009, APA prepared its first ever strategic plan, which came 117 years after the organization began in began in 1892.
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Reading Mark Muse’s book about clinical psychopharmacology (see Bookshelf this issue) I was reminded of the muddle we have in Louisiana, compared to the rest of the country, over the term “medical psychology.” Mark Muse and Bret Moore define medical psychology as primary care. This appears to be the main reason the national groups of medical and health psychologists object to Act 251. Muse described in his book that 251 turned the “medical psychologist” into a mid-level practitioner. Many outside of Louisiana have described this to me before – that 251 took “medical psychologist” and made it into “prescribing psychologist.”
But this is only one issue.
Off and on I speak with Tom Stigall and ask him what he thinks about some concern or another, and we sooner or later get around to a topic about which we both feel strongly. He states it something like this: “Psychologists’ greatest issue is that they have never found a way to articulate to others their unique societal contribution.”
Proof of this was recently summarized in Scott Lilienfeld’s American Psychologist article, “Public Skepticism of Psychology: Why Many People Perceive the Study of Human Behavior as Unscientific.” He pointed to a host of problems, including the public attitude that psychology is not much more than common sense.
When Huffington Post mauled research findings about unemployment figures for “psychologists” we saw the issue also. They confused undergraduate degrees with graduate training and completely jumbled meanings and facts. But this is what the public has for dinner.
This controversy, among others, indicates to me that we could do better in answering the question: “What business are we in?”
In the famous Harvard Business Review article by Theodore Levitt, “Marketing Myopia,” the story of the railroads was used as a warning. Railroads dominated for a century and recreated the American landscape by dramatically shortening travel times. But Levitt pointed out that railroad companies defined themselves as being in the railroad business. With this viewpoint, they saw automobiles, trucking, and airplanes as simply competition, rather than focus on their true contribution, the transportation business.
When we define ourselves incorrectly, we waste time, energy, the public’s and our competitors’ good will. A good business definition helps guide excellence and manages competition in a fair marketplace.
Our challenges in psychology seem related to the fact that we are born of philosophy, and then go on as both designers and craftsmen. We could debate if we are in the information business, the education business, the healthcare business, or whatever.
But a good model could help on all counts. APA had no strategic plan, a tool of business thinkers, until 2009, a full 117 years since it began. A strategic plan would go a long way toward managing diversity, dealing with marketplace changes, and finding ways to describe our contributions both to policy makers and the public, that don’t sound like doublespeak.
I take a great deal of comfort in the fact that our problems all appear related to the absence of a good business model and visionary leadership. Issues easily corrected.
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According to a press release from the Governor’s Office, Louisiana has been ranked 5th in the US for its positive business climate. The ranking is by Business Facilities magazine.
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Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge (Essential Science Indictors) named the APS journal Perspectives on Psychological Science a “Rising Star” in the field of psychology. APS Executive Director, Alan Kraut, announced in June that the journal had the highest percent increase in citations compared to all 300 journals in psychology and psychiatry, with over 2,000 citations.
In an interview with sciencewatch.com, journal editor Barbara Spellman described some of her ideas about Perspectives. Spellman, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Law at the U. of Virginia, said to sciencewatch, “The increasing fragmentation and specialization in psychological science makes it difficult to keep up with areas people are interested in, even those close to one’s own. By publishing integrative review articles that are written to be accessible to anyone in the field, Perspectives provides one-stop shopping — one place where people can read about important issues in the field’s various subdisciplines.”
Previous editor Dr. Ed Diener was quoted to say, “Another important goal was that all of the articles be written in a style that would appeal to readers and that could be understood by people from all areas of psychology and not just by individuals working in that area. […]”
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Several government agencies and general business groups are continuing to develop awareness about how office copiers pose security risks.
Last year CBS news found that nearly all copiers built since 2002 contain a type of hard drive that retains a image of a document copied or scanned. Office copiers may cause a breach of medical privacy laws, and this is especially the case if people do not know remove the hard drive memory when either selling the machine or returning it, if leased. Also, simply putting it in the trash pickup may result in violation of confidentiality.
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