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The winner in the “positive comment” category for the birth- day contest was:
“When I read stories about people like Drs. Frick, Nelson, Hannie, Nemeth, Greenleaf, Chafetz, etc., and when I read your fine writing, I am humbled and wonder how is it that I get to call these people ‘colleagues’. I am not writing this to win any prize, I just wanted you to know that I appreciate what you are doing. Thank you.”
First runner up: “I almost feel like a groupie groveling at the feet of a rock star. You are really doing a great job! Remember what Thoreau said "The only reward of virtue is virtue itself."
Honorable mentions go to:
“thanks. keep publishing, I like reading the news.”
“Bravo! Your editorial citing the Board request for your ‘credentials’ relative to news reporting was wonderful!”
“This is just a brief note to again tell you how impressed I am by your newsletter and your willingness to address issues that may be controversial.”
Negative comments: Only one negative entry was received, the reader noting that he might have the best chance to win in this category.
“This newsletter is flawed in that it appeals to those who are not psychologists, but unfortunately it is not so flawed that it does not appeal [to this reader].”
The Times sent a $100 donation to the Cane River Children’s Services, and $20 to the BARK animal rescue as instructed by our winners.
Robert Holeman, the Times newspaper consultant, judged the contest. The publisher sincerely appreciates and thanks everyone for the comments.
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Drs. Julie Larrieu, Janet Matthews, and Lee Matthews, presented a symposium at the American Psychological Association Convention in August titled “Professional Connecting in Post-Katrina/Rita/BP New Orleans."
Dr. Larrieu, Training Director in Clinical Psychology at Tulane University School of Medicine, told the Times that Drs. Janet and Lee Matthews asked her to join them in “… submitting a proposal for a symposium to discuss consultation and training in psychology following a series of natural disasters.”
The topic built upon Dr. Janet Matthews’ and Dr. Lee Matthews’ experiences as psychologists involved in local, state, regional, and national endeavors in psychology. Dr. Janet Matthews is a Professor at Loyola and a past member and chair of the state psychology board. Dr. Lee Matthews is in private practice and currently serves on the board.
The presentation topic also built on Dr. Larrieu’s experience re- instituting a clinical psychology training program as well as all three psychologists’ understanding of the issues in rebuilding after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the continuing stress in the area due to the BP oil disaster.
For a number of years, the Drs. Matthews have participated in seminar training of clinical interns from Tulane U. School of Medicine, as well as in the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System psychology internship programs, noted Dr. Larrieu. This gave the team a unique perspective on these issues.
The symposium description noted, “Natural disasters disrupt both personal and professional lives. The greater New Orleans professional community became a center of both concern and support in 2005 when the area was devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. National attention was given to the mental health needs of the community. Local psychologists who chose to return to the community were faced with the need to rebuild both training programs and interpersonal connections. In the summer of 2010, the BP oil spill, although not directly impacting the greater New Orleans community, has had both a fiscal and an emotional impact on it. Thus, a community that was still self-described as recovering once again found itself needing to marshal forces to address community stress.”
The group’s presentation included three ways local psychologists can help rebuild after disasters. The presenters provided a model for rebuilding internships and postdoctoral programs. They also addressed the role of service on a state psychology board and how the board can assist the community while also protecting the public. The third segment illustrated community consultation to address training and practice needs.
One key feature of the presentation was to examine ideas that may be helpful as a model for looking at the national issue of internship availability.
Other presenters at this year’s APA conference included Dr. Michael Chafetz. He presented an invited address, ““The Role of the Psychologist in the Psychological Consultative Examination for Social Security Disability.” (See article page 1 this issue.)
Dr. Kelly Ray presented “Developing a part-time practice,” as a member of the panel for “Nuts and Bolts of Practice: Successful Early Career Perspective.”
Dr. Joseph Tramontana presented in the Division 47 (Exercise & Sports Psychology) poster session: "The Mental Side of Sports: How Hypnosis and Self-hypnosis Training can Enhance Peak Performance.” He told the Times that the information was well received.
Old Post Office, Washington, DC. (Photo by Chalukyas)
Dr. Lee Matthews and Dr. Janet Matthews don’t actually move at super speed but it seems that way. They recently returned from APA where, with Dr. Julie Larrieu, they presented a symposium about rebuilding training programs after disasters.
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The Psychology Board is preparing to go through the “Sunset Review” process, which requires an evaluation of their powers, duties, performance, and problems, along with other data, to be presented to legislative committees for the 2012 session. The Sunset law automatically terminates the board on July 1, 2012. Then, if the legislature views the board as needed and worthwhile, the board is “re-created.”
The Sunset law (Louisiana Revised Statutes or RS 49: 190, Part XII – Termination and Re-Creation of Statutory Entities) automatically terminates all boards on a regular basis, which then must then be “re-created” or if deemed to be obsolete, phased-out.
The psychology board falls under the Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH). LSBEP (Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists) is scheduled to be evaluated along with other DHH boards in 2012.
The purpose of the sunset review is to eliminate inactive entities, and “The elimination or consolidation of entities, programs, or activities which duplicate other governmental entities, programs, or activities.”
According to sources the review for the psychology board should be fairly routine, with data firmly supporting the existence of the board. However, some in the community are wary due to the issues regarding the dual regulation of psychology that occurred with Act 251.
At their July meeting, the psychology board discussed Sunset, including asking for assistance from the Board’s attorneys, including the newer Opinions, and talking with LPA president, Dr. Phillip Griffin.
The Times asked Dr. Griffin about Sunset and he said that Sunset will be discussed at the upcoming Executive Council meeting on September 10. “Tony Young and probably one or more Board members are meeting with us at our September EC meeting,” Dr. Griffin noted. “We are fortunate to have Darlyne Nemeth with us; she was a Board member during the last sunset hearing … I will know a great deal more after that meeting.”
Past LSBEP Chairs Drs. Rovaris and Comaty.
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President of the Louisiana Psychological Association (LPA), Dr. Phillip Griffin told the Times that he sent a letter to Dr. John Bolter, President of LAMP (Louisiana Academy of Medical Psychologists), and also to the Chair of the LSBEP (Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists) Dr. Tony Young. This was a step at implementing a resolution passed by LPA members at a Town Hall meeting in April, 2010, regarding Act 251.
“So there is at least the beginning of dialog,” Dr. Griffin told the Times. He noted he sent a letter to Dr. Bolter shortly after the first Executive Council meeting, Griffin said, “reminding him of the resolution and expressing a desire and need for open dialog between LPA and LAMP.” As of press time Dr. Griffin had yet to receive a reply from Dr. Bolter.
In April LPA passed the resolution offered by Dr. Tom Hannie at a special Town Hall Meeting held at the LPA Annual Convention. The Town Hall meeting was the result of continuing concerns of members regarding Act 251. One of the main reasons for the special meeting was the results of a survey conducted by the LPA council and led by Drs. Robert Storer and Gail Gillespie in late 2010. The findings indicated that 74 percent of respondents had concerns about Act 251. The results were similar to a phone survey conducted by Dr. Susan Dardard in the fall 2010.
Dr. Hannie’s motion directed the association to open a dialogue between LPA, the state medical board, the state psychology board, the state medical association, and also LAMP. And, according to Dr. Hannie, the motion indicated that the goal of this effort was to determine if there was a way for all psychology to be regulated by psychology and the practice of prescribing, or all medical practice, be regulated by the medical board.
Dr. Griffin explained, “I am not surprised that I have not received a reply as of this date. LAMP and LSBEP do not meet all that often and the matters that I raised would probably be brought before the entire group.”
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In August the Board of Directors of the Louisiana Press Association approved The Psychology Times as an Active Associate Member. The Times had previously qualified in 2009 as an individual member. Associate members must be in publication for at least two years, a milestone the Times passes with Volume 3.
The publisher is Dr. Julie Nelson, daughter of the late Gordon and Lynn Nelson, LSU trained journalists and past publishers of The Coushatta Citizen.
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I come from a newspaper family. At seven I “stuffed papers,” which is how small, rural weeklies at that time often got the second section of the newspaper into the middle of the first section, perhaps just not with child labor. I worked in the “back shop” where lead was melted for the “Linotype,” producing the mold, the “type slug,” for printing. After technology came along to use photographic images of type, I worked in “paste-up,” putting news, photos, or ads on the page. As a teenager I was a photographer and was often sent scurrying around town to find something, anything, to shoot to fill a page right before deadline. I loved it all.
And I especially loved the newspaper “talk.”
Our family dinner table was a think tank of talk about human behavior, community life, the role of the newspaper, the public’s right to know, and, when my father got lucky, about some injustice or somebody’s attempt to hide the truth from the community. It was, for the poor, rural parish in north Louisiana, an oasis.
Journalism students from Centenary, Northwestern and LSUS were always dropping in to the after dinner conversation to hang on to every word. And I did too.
It was a small step for me to go off into the “big blue world” (as my dad called it–all the way to Baton Rouge!) and seek out some new words, and eventually some of my own, in psychology, another noble profession in its search for truth, its similar requirement for self- awareness and social conscience. The words grew and changed as I learned from my adopted doctor fathers and doctor mothers, and I fell in love again, this time with the ideals of psychology, and the unique position we are in for making the world a better place.
My father died his natural death in March 2009 and my mother followed (having stuck around on this earth for him because he was, in truth, a big baby.) And in June that year Act 251 happened. I was shocked (and ashamed for us) by what I saw in our community, and I found that the problems were more important and went deeper than 251. We needed a community newspaper as much as any group anywhere, maybe even more, because we should set a higher bar.
While dealing with my father’s possessions my brother and I discovered one of dad’s many safe deposit boxes. The only thing in this old, obscure box was a cassette tape from 1976. My father had recorded a phone conversation between him and me. I was just starting graduate school at LSU. He was pulling together an election edition of The Coushatta Citizen. We talked about the community, the local and state elections, who was a “good egg” and who couldn’t be trusted and why, and especially, that I should come home, because after all, I needed to vote, didn’t I? I should come home because of my roots, he said. Well, maybe just come home because he missed me, he admitted.
Sometime in 1976 my father had wrapped up this tape recording in a piece of brown paper bag and scrawled across the top of it, “1976: Julie – Forget Me Not.”
This wasn’t the only event that called me to the work of the Times, there were even stranger ones that might cause Jung to raise an eyebrow. But this one required an answer. I won’t forget you.
The Psychology Times was approved last month as an Active Associate Member of the Louisiana Press Association. (I grew up with the press association!) I’m honored. I’ve enjoyed this work tremendously.
Newspapering, like psychology, is a noble profession.
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The book reviews from The Psychology Times regular feature, “Bookshelf” are now available at the Times website as single items.
Go to the site at: https://thepsychologytimes.com/
The menu bar at the top now includes a selection for “Book Reviews.” Each review can be individually assessed or downloaded for convenience. Also each review is available by the book’s title, making it easier for individuals browsing the web to locate the texts from Louisiana authors and related works.
All back issues of the Times are also available on the site.
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Dr. Fidanza, Medical Psychologist is now seeing patients at the Zachary, LA location for Southeast Community Health Systems, according to a report in the Feliciana Explorer. Dr. Fidanza is a medical, clinical, and sports psychologist, who in 1984 played for the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox minor league organizations.
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The LSBEP posted an alert on 6/30/11 suggesting licensees know what is posted about them on the Internet. The alert says licensees need to make a “good faith effort to correct” any errors about themselves.
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Contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, referred to as Object Relations, is an evolution of classical psychoanalytic theory. The term “object” was coined by Freud, and is synonymous with the word person or people. Hence the term “Object Relations” refers to psychoanalytic theory based on the relationship between objects (people). Where classical psychoanalysis is sometimes referred to as a psychology of one, object relations theory is a psychology of more than one, with the actual developmental relationship serving as the basis of personality and future relationships (This is what Freud meant when he said that there is no such thing as a new relationship, that all relationships are superimposed over old relationships). More specifically, both the outside object and the relationship with that object are introjected by the developing mind. In this way Object Relations theory stands congruent with other exciting and cutting edge developmental theories such as Bowlby's Attachment Theory. Due to these origins, however, Object Relations theory is based on the same assumptions of classical psychoanalytic theory.
Of course, a central assumption of Object Relations theory is the recognition of an “unconscious mind,” that influences behavior and that produces the symptoms of psychopathology. In addition, Object Relations theory is based on the assumption (like all psychoanalytic theory) that symptoms have symbolic meaning. As such, the role of the therapist is the accurate reading of that symbolism as fodder for treatment.
Also central to Object Relations theory is the assumption that personality and psychopathology have a developmental etiology, i.e. symptoms result from a disruption in the developmental sequence, and that earlier breaks in the developmental sequence are associated with more severe pathology. Nonetheless, these disruptions are not necessarily the result of the horrible trauma of common lore. While abuse and neglect are certainly pathogenic, more often these breaks in the developmental sequence are found to be the result of much more banal events (e.g. a second colicky baby results in the caregiver being unavailable to the other child).
Developmental Sequencing
Within the confines of our mind we all carry an “internal map” or schema of the outside world. But this is not so for the newborn. In the immediate postnatal period a child has no memory traces nor can they focus their eyes. Thus, they have no “internal map” as we know it. Nonetheless, during this time the child does have a crude understanding of self and mother, which exist internally as one ephemeral unit. As such, both the internal world and the external world are represented in the unconscious by one object. As development progresses, however, visual acuity improves and memory traces accumulate. Soon an infant begins to differentiate between the external world and the internal world (i.e. there is someone out there and I am in here). This then becomes the building blocks of what will eventually become "the mind:” two individual objects, one representing mother and one representing self. Disruption of this stage can later lead to a state in which the patient is unable to differentiate between the outside world and the internal world. Problems related to this early developmental stage can later result in a state in which the patient is unable to differentiate between internal "voices" and external "voices." Hence, Object Relation theory provides a psychological explanation for auditory hallucinations (my apologies to the chemical imbalance industry). As time moves on, however, these single objects are unable to represent the infant's ever expanding world. This is especially true for emotions. Angry, blue-in-the-face baby cannot be represented with the same object as happy, loving baby at the breast. Similarly, “mother the-caretaker-and- provider” cannot be represented with the same object as “neglectful-make-me-wait-she's- trying-to-kill-me mother.” As such, baby now uses a very primitive defense mechanism to rectify the situation: a splitting defense. In this regard the infant now develops dual objects for both self and mother, and the emotion that accompanies those objects. Now the infant has two separate objects for self (good baby/bad baby) and for mother (good mother/bad mother), and the emotions (actually instincts) that accompany these objects: libido and aggression, respectively. As time moves on, however, baby begins to understand that good mother and bad mother are actually the same person, as is good baby and bad baby, and a merging of the objects occurs. With this merger baby can now experience people (and themselves) as whole objects, with both good and bad qualities. Accompanying this is also a merger of the emotions/instincts that are associated with each object. Hence, the aggressive instinct is now tempered by libido, and the pure rage that is a product of pre- merged (split) objects is no longer produced. Problems related to this stage produce a condition in which splitting is the major defense and rage is still experienced (i.e., a borderline condition).
As you can see, Object Relations theory, similar to classical psychoanalytic theory, can account for the clinical conditions that many face daily in their practice. Although space limitations limit further discussion, I feel I would be remiss if I did not at least mention the curative (rather than palliative) aspects of psychoanalytic treatment. Just as pathology is caused by early problematic relationships, the curative aspects of treatment also rest on the relationship. Although the exact mechanics are still pondered, the psychoanalytic relationship is what is therapeutic i.e. that it is introjected by the patient, to replace or mitigate early malignant relationships.
Dr. Cerwonka is in private practice in Lafayette. He completed his doctoral training at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, and his post-doctoral training at Columbia University.
Dr. Michael Schwartz from New York (L) and Dr. Eric Cerwonka, who received his training in New York, discuss issues at the LPA convention. Dr. Schwartz was a guest presenter and will Chair a program at APA.
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Dr. Gary Jones has built a prestigious and fruitful career from his talent for working with people, his enjoyment of psychophysiology, and his love of mentoring students in psychology.
He is Chair of the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University Shreveport and Tenured Professor, coming to LSUS eight years ago after a full and varied career at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM), including Director of Clinical Psychology Training, Director of USM’s Psychology Clinic, and Professor at a university that many in Louisiana affectionately regard as home.
Dr. Jones is a member of the Counsel of Graduate Departments of Psychology (COGDOP) and a member of Association of Heads of Departments of Psychology (AHDP). He has been a member of the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP) and the Association of Directors of Psychology Training Clinics.
He is Team Chair, APA Accreditation Site Visit Teams, Clinical Psychology, a position he has held for over ten years. He also serves as Site Visitor, Clinical Specialty Member, and Site Visitor, Health Psychology Specialty Member, among many other duties.
His research in cardiac awareness and visceral perception has spanned decades and led to over 80 publications, 67 national and international presentations, 44 invited addresses and presentations at state/regional meetings, and four book chapters including “Constitutional and physiological factors in heartbeat perception,” in From the heart to the brain: The psychophysiology of circulation-brain interaction, and “Perception of visceral sensations: A review of recent findings, methodologies, and future directions,” in Advances in Psychophysiology.
“My dissertation was an analysis of the imagination process involved in systematic desensitization,” Gary told the Times. He found that “what made people react physiologically was not the valence of the imagined scene, but the activity involved in the imagery.”
“The issue of visceral awareness,” he said, “its accurate measurement, individual differences, and the impact of awareness on a person's understanding of their health or sickness became my programmatic research for the next 35 years, and virtually all of my research, and that of my students, has been in that area. I'm still fascinated by it.”
Along the way he has produced works such as “An investigation of the role of physiological arousal in test anxiety,” in Educational and Psychological Research, “Physiological responding during self generated imagery of contextually complete stimuli,” in Psychophysiology, and “Perception of arousal and awareness of physiological responding prior to and after running 20 kilometers,” in Journal of Sport Psychology.
“I did a series of studies on an American Heart Association grant to understand how patients with serious cardiac diseases such as arrhythmias or premature ventricular contractions interpreted visceral feedback and how it impacted their use of medical services or their understanding of their own health,” he told the Times. “In short, most cardiac patients are not particularly aware of cardiac activity, have lots of misinformation about what their heart is doing, and make lots of bad behavioral choices based on misinformation about their physiological functioning.”
His extensive publishing record in psychophysiology is paralleled by his service as editor for numerous journals. He has served as the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Psychophysiology, as Consulting Editor for the journals of Psychophysiology, Journal of Psychophysiology, Biological Psychology, Psychobiology, Journal of Applied Psychophysiology, and Psychosomatic Medicine.
He has also served as Consulting Editor for Science, Journal of Behavioral Assessment, Biofeedback and Self-Regulation, Journal of Personal & Social Psychology Consulting, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has served as Special Series Editor for Biological Psychology.
Gary is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Louisiana, in Mississippi, and holds the Certificate of Professional Qualifications in Psychology (CPQ). He has served on the Mississippi Board of Examiners and he is a past member the American Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.
He is a member of the American Psychological Association, Southeastern Psychological Association, and Fellow of the International Organization of Psychophysiology. He is a past member of American Psychological Society, Society for Psychophysiological Research, and Society for Behavioral Medicine.
He has served on the Scientific Program Committee for the World Congress of Psychophysiology, on the Convention Committee, Membership, and Bylaws Committee for the Society of Psychophysiological Research. He serves in multiple roles for the Southeastern Psychological Association. He has served as President of the Biofeedback Society of Mississippi, and in many roles for the Mississippi Psychological Association, including Chair of the Scientific Affairs, and Legislative Committee. He has served on numerous university committees including the College of Business, Education, and Human Sciences Technology Committee, the LSUS Technology Fund Committee, the University Research Council, Graduate Council, and the Statistical Review Committee. He has worked as a clinician in private practice, and as Clinical Psychology Consultant and Clinical Supervisor, to P.A.C.E. – Head Start, as a Clinical Psychologist Consultant to Pine Grove Recovery Center, and consultant to Department of Youth Services.
Gary earned his B.A. in psychology from Penn State, and his masters and doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University. But he chose psychology only after some turns.
“I started as a marine biology major at Penn State primarily because I had watched Lloyd Bridges on the television program, Sea Hunt, and that seemed really interesting,” he explained. However, he soon changed to biology, then education, and finally psychology.
Nothing quite felt right until one day, while walking past an office in the basement of the psychology building at Penn State, Gary spotted a “very large piece of electronic equipment…” It was a Beckman Dynograph, a device for recording physiological, autonomic, or cerebral electrical signals.
Gary was hooked. The combination of psychology, sophisticated electronic equipment, and research, was exactly what he had been looking for. “What a combination! It pushed all my buttons simultaneously,” he said.
“I decided quickly that I would like to be a psycho- physiologist,” and he asked to work in the lab, proceeding next to graduate training with Bowling Green’s Dr. Harold Johnson, a licensed clinical psychologist and psychophysiologist.
“To me, psychophysiology was a natural combination for a clinician,” Gary told the Times. “I was most fascinated with the role of a person's perception of visceral sensations as being critical to the emotional experience.”
He still loves gadgetry. “I am definitely an old technology geek (long before there was such a term) and have been one since my introduction to amateur radio at about 12 years of age.” He began collecting physiological data on $50,000 minicomputer in 1971 that had only 64K of memory, with hard drives that were “the size of a large steamer trunk,” explained Gary.
In recent years Gary has attended an NIMH and APA sponsored Advanced Training Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery (fMRI) at Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, a collaboration of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, and MIT.
What has been most rewarding? “I am, at my core, mostly an academic, researcher, and mentor,” he said. “Clearly, the most rewarding part of all of this activity was my role as a mentor for doctoral students.”
During his almost 30 years at USM, Gary mentored approximately 65 doctoral candidates. “There is nothing like having a research group of 4 to 9 PhD candidates all working in the same area as I was working. These people were bright, enthusiastic, eager, motivated and excited about learning psychology, and it was an amazing environment for me.”
Gary’s very first graduate student was Dr. Glenn Ally, Louisiana medical psychologist. “I taught the intellectual testing courses,” Gary said, “for our program and students were required to do lots of practice testing, and Glenn would bring his son [Brandon] in to be tested by his colleagues. Brandon was a fixture of the testing classes,” Gary said.
“About 25 years later, a young man named Brandon Ally applied to our doctoral program…” and “…became ‘my’ last doctoral student. The ‘Ally psychologists’ bookended my mentorship career. Brandon is one of ‘my’ most distinguished students, now on the faculty at Vanderbilt Medical School (after leaving Boston University and Harvard Medical), and has a research track record that puts almost all of us to shame.” “Seeing all of those kids turn into professionals and make careers and names for themselves is amazing, and to have a little to do with furthering that process, is, by far, the best part of my career in psychology.”
What does Dr. Gary Jones see ahead for psychology? “I think that this is an exciting time for psychology. I think that psychology is growing into a real science.” He explained that the field has advanced more in the last 15 years than in the previous 100. “We have a lot more to learn, but psychology is riding technological advances into advanced understanding of human behavior.”
His advice to younger psychologists? “Truly master the knowledge and skills available in your disciplines.” And, “… graduate school is just not getting a degree but is the acquisition of knowledge that you are going to build on the rest of your career. Don't be in a rush…”
Dr. Gary Jones is married to Dee (Dolores) Jones. Dee is a professional librarian now at the LSU Health Science Center Medical Library in Shreveport. In her career she has served as the Curator of the DeGrummond Children's Literature Research Collection, the second largest collection of original children’s literature manuscripts and original illustrations in the U.S. Also, Dee has served on the Board that confers the premier national award for Children's Literature, the Andrew Caldecott Medal.
The $50,000 minicomputer and steamer trunk-sized hard drives are on the right. The now Dr. Michael Scott above is collecting dissertation data, while Drs. Ken Jones and John Caldwell program the computer. (Photo courtesy Dr. Gary Jones.) This was a newspaper picture taken sometime during Dr. Gary Jones’ first year (1975-1976 ) as a faculty member at USM. (Photo courtesy Dr. Gary Jones.)
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The LSBEP is considering revising requirements for Continuing Education requirements, and conducted a survey of licensed psychologists in June and July to discover their views on number and kind of training activities for verifying continued competence.
Dr. Tony Young, Chair of LSBEP noted to the Times that, “ASPPB has published a draft of guidelines regarding CE or Maintenance of Competency that we are mulling over. They are incorporating suggestions now from state boards and revising their document, as I understand it.” He indicated that the document is available on the ASPPB website at http://www.asppb.net/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3572
Changes in Continuing Education may follow the ASPPB’s recommendations, after input from state boards and individuals are included.
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Dr. Kelly Ray, outgoing LPA President will present “Developing a part-time practice,” as a member of the panel for “Nuts and Bolts of Practice: Successful Early Career Perspective.” The program is sponsored by Division 42, Independent Practice and will be held August 4 at the APA Convention Center.
The Chair for the panel is Dr. Michael Schwartz, who recently presented a workshop at LPA.
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Michael Chafetz, Erica Prentkowski, ad Aparna Rao have authored a study, “To Work or Not To Work: Motivation (Not Low IQ) Determines Symptom Validity Test Findings,” published in the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.
The authors looked at Social Security Disability Determinations Service (DDS) claimants and compared them to claimants for the Rehabilitation Service on measures symptom validity. They found that, “… intrinsic motivation explains effort in this particular study of low-functioning claimants: those seeking to work or to look good to reunify with their children pass SVTs [Symptom Validity Tests] at high rates.”
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