The Southeastern Psychological Association will hold its annual conference for 2017 in Atlanta from March 8 through March 11, at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, located on Peachtree Road NE.
Invited speakers for this year include Antonio E. Puente, PhD, the 2017 President of the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Puente is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and he has taught at St. George’s University School of Medicine. According to the program, he teaches in the areas of Brain and Behavior, Clinical Neuro- psychology and History of Psychology. His research focuses on the interface between culture and neuropsychology. He is an international and national researcher, collaborator, and lecturer, and a visiting professor at UCLA and the Universidad de Granada in Spain. In addition, he is founder and co-director of mental health services at the Cape Fear Clinic, a bilingual health center serving the poor and uninsured.
Keynote speakers also include Monica Baskin, PhD, an expert in minority health matters and health disparities. She is professor in the Division of Preventive Medicine at the U. of Alabama.
Also Cirleen DeBlaere, PhD, will provide a Keynote address on underserved populations and oppression. Her research focuses on the marginalized and underserved populations with particular emphasis on intersectionality and multiple forms of oppression (e.g., LGBTQ, race).
Luis Rivera, PhD, is also an invited speaker. He an Assistant Professor Principal Investigator of the Rutgers Implicit Social Cognition (RISC) lab, and expert experimental social psychology with a specialization in implicit social cognition theory and methodology.
All workshops this year will offer three hours of continuing education credits. T
Last year’s Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) meeting in New Orleans. L to R: Dr. Thomas Mitchell, from the University of Baltimore, Dr. Jerry Tobacyk, from Louisiana Tech University, and Efehi Edomwony, from Xavier University. This year SEPA will be in Atlanta on March 8 to 11.
SEPA will be held in Atlanta this year. Above, (L to R) researchers Ester Hutchinson, Tara Payne, and Anna Maclellan, all from Our Lady of Holy Cross College/ U. of Holy Cross, exhibit research at last year’s SEPA which was held in New Orleans.
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Organizer Dr. John Pickering has announced that the Annual Mindfulness Day will be held Saturday, April 1, at the Temple in Baton Rouge. Dr. Emily Sandoz and Mr. Corey Porche will be presenters for this year’s seminar, along with Thay Dao Quang.
Dr. Sandoz is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor at the Psychology Department, University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She is an expert in ACT, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She presented at last year’s Mindfulness Day, and has co-authored three books on ACT, along with having written numerous chapters and journal articles on the topic. Sandoz has led more than 40 professional training workshops around the world on ACT concepts. Mr. Porche is a Licensed Professional Counselor who also holds a master’s degree in Interpersonal/ Organizational Communication, is co- owner of Camilia House Counseling and Educational Services where he employs ACT in his work with couples, dyads and families. He has lead and co-led professional trainings in ACT both locally and internationally since 2011.
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The 2017 SWPA Convention will be March 31 to April 2, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. The Theme for this year’s conference is “Fitting In/Standing Out: The Psychology of Groups.” Organizers note that the highlights will include invited speakers and APA sponsored lectures.
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Professor Janna Gluzman, from Moscow State University in Russia, will present her first person experiences with the famous Alexander Luria, on April 28, 2017, in New Orleans.
The presentation is “Review of the Life and Times of Professor Alexander Luria,” to be delivered from 10 am to 12:30 pm on April 28. The presentation is to be in Conference Center of the University Medical Center New Orleans, 2000 Canal Street, New Orleans.’’
Alexander Romanovich Luria was a Soviet neuropsychologist and developmental psychologist and is known as a leader in the Cultural- Historical Psychology, a leader of the Vygotsky Circle, or the “Vygotsky-Luria Circle,” and for his Higher Cortical Functions in Man (1962) and The Working Brain in the 1970s.
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The 29th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) will be held in Boston, May 25 to 28.
Some highlights include Lila R. Gleitman, PhD, who will deliver the Fred Kavli Keynote Address, “Only When the Shoe Fits: Primitive Procedures for Vocabulary Learning.” The Presidential Symposium will be “Sense and Sensibility: How Our Bodies Do––and Don’t–– Shape Our Minds.” And the 2017 Cross-Cutting theme program will include, “The Many Flavors of Relationships.”
This theme addresses how people are living alone, working longer, and living to old age more than ever before. These changing demographics raise the importance of understanding the myriad of relationships in which people live, including family connections during early childhood, peers in late childhood and early adulthood, and professional networks in the workplace.
“Doing the Most for the Many: Psychological Scientists Who Inform Public Policies,” will gather together those experienced in public areas, including clinical, community, developmental, and social psychology experts, to discuss their experiences interacting with the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state and federal governments.
Massachusetts Representative Ruth Balser, who was the first psychologist elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, and Laurence Steinberg, whose research on and amicus brief about adolescent brain development informed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to abolish the juvenile death penalty. Also included is Patrick DeLeon, American Psychological Association
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Warning to others? by Times publisher, J. Nelson
On my office wall I have a “Demotivators Calender,” published by Despair, Inc., and for January there is a photo of a shipwreck and caption: “MISTAKES: It Could Be that the Purpose of Your Life Is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others.”
An upheaval going on in Texas gives us any number of warnings: try not to be serving on your state board when you lose a case for violating the United States Constitution; don’t write your practice act so that you wind up in a deposition trying to explain if those in AA and Weight-Watchers are practicing psychology; have some really good words on hand to differentiate psychology from psychotherapy (as futile as that is these days). The most salient warning for me is the one my father phrased, “If you see a crack it doesn’t mean you have to put your tail in it.”
Mary Louise Serafine, a PhD and attorney, was campaigning for the Texas Senate and used the term “psychologist” to describe herself on her website. This was, of course, a violation of the practice act, a misdemeanor. But, while her PhD was in education, not psychology, she did, apparently, do extensive post-doctoral work in psychology, she was on the psychology faculty at Yale and Vassar, she published in a psychology journal, and had been a member of APA for a time.
All of this still does not qualify her to call herself a “psychologist” in Texas, but calling herself a psychologist does not qualify her for the guillotine either.
In Dr. Serafine’s legal brief, we get a feeling for what she experienced: “During the campaign, the Texas Psychological Association (‘TPA’) emailed Serafine that in their opinion the sentence violated Chapter 501. She changed ‘psychologist’ to ‘educator.’
Thereafter the TPA and the Board signed formal complaints against Serafine over the use of the word and filed them with the Board. The Board issued a cease and desist order against Serafine, followed by a letter from the Attorney General threatening prosecution for Serafine’s use of the word in ‘public records.’
The TPA’s lobbyist and the Board then contacted local newspapers, informing them of the cease and desist order and demanding corrections stating that Serafine was not a psychologist. The TPA’s lobbyist phoned the same information to the office of Serafine’s opponent.”
Going for the jugular of a person who has political aspirations, has a PhD, and a law degree from Yale, suggests a group-level Trickster archetype at work. Why such a forceful reaction? Why did they not see their law’s vulnerabilities? (The judge actually mocked some sections.)
I think that perhaps in this situation it might have been some combination of the political (power) model and the natural arrogance that seems to affect some of us. Perhaps that pride that goes before the fall. (I often ask Archimedes if I am as arrogant and self-deceptive as others in the community that I complain to him about and he says simply, “All PhDs are arrogant.” This is why I call him Archimedes.)
I think we make trouble for ourselves when we embrace the political model. It has a way of clouding judgment. We seem oddly susceptible, considering we deal with the unconscious and the collective unconscious. But of course we are just as human as everyone else, and as Edith Hamilton writes, truth reveals herself only to the disinterested.
Becoming conscious of which model we are using as a community might help us. The political model is a win-lose, zero-sum game, and unfriendly to science and science’s quest for truth and innovation. In the terms of Eric Berne, these are third-level intensity games, often ending up in the courtroom. Playing them means we have to cloak ourselves in enough justification to make our actions seem reasonable even when we’re behaving with the wisdom and diplomacy of a group of flatworms.
A win-win model would be better. Win-win is not zero-sum, but a view that the whole can be greater than the sum of the parts, that new things are created as a natural result of innovation and collaboration. This would be a system where achievement is not just winning, but creation of something that benefits all. This type of approach could be friendly to science, because it is also more intellectually honest.
While I think Texas will go through a positive process in rewriting their law, it is unfortunate for them to be forced to do this in the political arena, which is not known for its high reasoning, but rather for making sausage.
If those winds of change blow this way, I hope we can set a good course for ourselves.
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The Louisiana Psychological Association with hold it 69th Annual Convention and business meeting June 2 and 3, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Kenner, Louisiana.
The theme of this year’s convention is “The “The Evolving Role of Today’s Psychologist: Leveraging the science of psychology to help people, organizations and society.” Participants will have opportunities to engage with others in their specialty and subspecialty interest areas and to update their knowledge base and earn continuing professional development credits.
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Two court decisions may have delivered a serious blow to the current psychology practice Act in Texas.
The Texas Sunset Commission, in a January report, recommended reforms including narrowing the definition of the practice of psychology and consolidating the state’s boards dealing with behavioral health.
Texas, like Louisiana, is working on legal fallout from the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision, North Carolina v. F.T.C. In the decision, the Supreme Court found that the North Carolina dental board violated antitrust laws when they sent 47 official cease-and-desist orders to non-dentists who were offering teeth- whitening services.
A related issue emerged regarding “state-action immunity.” If a board is not supervised by the state, and if it contains “active market participants” (individuals who compete in the marketplace), then the state board does not qualify for immunity.
The issue of state oversight is being reviewed by Louisiana through a task force created by Senator Fred Mills in the 2016 legislative session. (See related story this issue.)
Texas psychology is also dealing with another blow from Serafine v. Branaman, a January 2016 judgment of the United States District Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Dr. Mary Louise Serafine, who was running for state Senate, described herself on her campaign website as an “attorney and psychologist.” The Texas psychology board ordered her to cease using the title “psychologist” and to “desist from offering or providing psychological services.” Serafine complied and then sued, on the basis of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
The Appeals judges found that the Texas psychology law, restricting the terms “psychological,” “psychologist,” or “psychology,” is unconstitutional as applied to political speech, and Serafine’s use of the word “psychologist” on her political campaign website.
The Appeals Court judges also found that sections of the Texas psychology law are “overbroad.” The judges wrote, “Even though the state may have the power to regulate the professional speech of psychologists incidental to a valid licensing scheme, if that scheme affects the speech of people beyond the purview of the state’s interests or power, it is overbroad.”
Serafine’s doctorate is in education and she was not licensed. However, court documents indicate that her post-doctorate was in psychology, that she was on the psychology faculty at Yale and Vassar, that she published her dissertation in a psychology journal, and that she had been a member of the American Psychological Association. She is a Yale educated attorney.
Serafine’s speech on her campaign website was not professional or commercial speech;…” the judges wrote. “…it was political speech of the highest form—a candidate seeking election to public office.” And they said, as applied to Serafine’s political speech, the section is “subject to ‘exacting scrutiny’ and must be ‘narrowly tailored to serve an overriding state interest.’”
“Though protecting mental health may be a compelling interest, the state has not narrowly tailored its laws to further that interest where it regulates outside the context of the actual practice of psychology. Serafine was not practicing psychology by speaking on her political website or filing forms for political office.”
The Texas Sunset Commission sites both the North Carolina v. F.T.C. and Serafine v. Branaman in its January 2017 report and recommends a set of actions.
One action includes transferring the state’s 10 health occupational licensing programs to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and reorganizing the regulatory boards as advisory boards. The Commission sites a modification of this would be to consolidate the five behavioral health boards, including psychology, to create the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council.
The Texas Sunset Commission also lists other decisions, including the following: 1) the elimination of the statutory authority for the psychology board to administer an oral exam; 2) removal of the statutory requirement for psychologists to earn half of their supervised work experience after receiving their PhD; 3) authorizing the board to issue remedial plans to resolve minor complaints; 4) prohibiting a board member from participating in both the investigation and resolution of a complaint; 5) allow licensed specialists in school psychology/school psychologists to practice in private schools; 6) rename licensure as a “Licensed Specialist in School Psychology” to licensure as a “School Psychologist; 7) add the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT) language to statute; 8) allow psychological associates to practice independently once they meet increased requirements.
It is not clear how much of the turmoil in Texas might spread to other states, but the United States courts of appeals are considered by many to be among the more influential courts in the U.S. and Louisiana is also in the Fifth Circuit.
The Texas psychology practice act prohibits the use of three terms, “psychological,” “psychologist,” and “psychology.” This would then restrict the commonly used term, “psychological scientist.” In contrast, Louisiana’s law is less broad: “’Psychologist’ means any person licensed as a psychologist under this Chapter.”
The Appeals Court judges found that sections of 501.003 (Practice of Psychology) of the Texas practice act were “overbroad and contravene the First Amendment.”
The judges concluded that since erroneous statements are inevitable in free debate, and “In the political context, the remedy for misleading speech is ‘more speech, not enforced silence,’” and that the section under the psychology law was unconstitutional as applied to Serafine.
After analysis the judges wrote that they are not convinced by the statute’s efforts to narrow scope, and “We decline to give it an additional extra-textual limiting construction in a frantic attempt to rescue it.”
They summarized in, “The ability to provide guidance about the common problems of life— marriage, children, alcohol, health—is a foundation of human interaction and society, whether this advice be found in an almanac, at the feet of grand- parents, or in a circle of friends. There is no doubt that such speech is protected by the First Amendment.” And, “By limiting the ability of individuals to dispense personal advice about mental or emotional problems based on knowledge gleaned in a graduate class in practically any context, subsection (c) chills and prohibits protected speech. But that is precisely what the overbreadth doctrine is meant to prevent. See Free Speech Coal., 535 U.S. at 255. Section 501.003(c), and by implication, Section 501.003(b)(2), are overbroad and contravene the First Amendment.”
The Texas Psychological Association and the Texas Board appear to have both signed formal complaints against Serafine.
In a brief submitted by Serafine, she and her attorneys wrote that after she changed the word from “psychologist” to “educator,” the Texas Psychological Association (TPA) and the Texas Board signed formal complaints against her. The Board issued a cease and desist order against Serafine which was followed by a letter from the Attorney General threatening prosecution for Serafine’s use of the word in “public records.”
According to the brief, TPA’s lobbyist and the Board then contacted local newspapers, informing them of the cease and desist order and demanding corrections stating that Serafine was not a psychologist. Also according to the brief, TPA’s lobbyist phoned the same information to the office of Serafine’s opponent.
In November 2016, Texas psychology board was ordered to pay attorney fees and costs of just over $48,000 to Serafine.
A violation of the psychology practice act in Texas, as in Louisiana, is a misdemeanor.
The Great Hall at the U.S. District Court of Appeals in New Orleans. (Courtesy photo)
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How Do You Know She’s a Witch? by Times publisher, J. Nelson
The recent news that the LSBEP prosecuting attorney, Mr. Raines, submitted invoices for $52,000 in December is a bit startling. He submitted charges for $66,597 in February. When he was hired, in late 2014, his contract was for $15,000 a year.
One hypothesis for these escalating legal fees at the board is that psychologists are out of control and it takes layers upon layers of attorneys to counteract the dark side of the psychology community.
But an alternative hypothesis is: It’s the LSBEP attorneys who are out of control.
The complaints and investigation group, the subcommittee Mr. Raines is in, works without direct supervision of the board. As far as I can tell, they conduct no validity research on their outcomes. There is some data available, however.
First, we know that we have a low base rate. Over seven years the total “disciplinary actions” is 9 people, for an average of 1.3 per year. In a population of around 750 psychologists, this is a rate of .001 to .002.
So, pick any psychologist at random and the chance is 99% that he or she is reasonably ethical––not likely to be disciplined.
Over these seven years the board conducted 136 “investigations,” or 19.4 per year. With this we have 1.3 “true” positives or test “hits,” and 18.1 false positives, or test “misses,” with the investigations screening method. For any psychologist being investigated, the chance is 93% that he/she is innocent of the misdemeanor violation that the board is screening for.
In Monty Python’s clip, “She’s a witch,” (uTube–not to be missed) we have the motivated villagers––“Burn her, she’s a witch! Burn her!”
“How do you know she’s a witch?” asks the King. “Because she looks like one,” the villagers shout. “They dressed me up as a witch,” the woman says. What other evidence do you have? “She turned me into a newt!” Eventually, the king and the villagers prove that yes, the woman is a witch, if witches burn, and wood burns, then wood floats and so does a duck. So, if she weighs the same as a duck, she’s a witch. (You’ve got to see it.)
The comedic view of motivated reasoning, confirmation bias, base rate neglect, and so on, isn’t so funny for someone going through this very human, and more common than we like to admit, process of motivated group-think.
If the LSBEP were conducting a witch-hunt, they are also looking for the very rare, almost non-existent single person out of 700 or so psychologists. They accept evidence from villagers, who are motivated. The investigators must somehow discriminate between possible witches and the non-witches, both who look the same, both who proclaim their innocence.
How do the investigators judge? ––They follow the APA ethics code (sacred writings), they follow policies and procedures (consult secret texts), they discuss matters in executive session (hold secret meetings). They are paid for all of this, of course.
If it were a witch-hunt, once the “investigators” believe they have rooted out a true witch, they try and convince that person to sign a document from the king (Consent Order) where she agrees to be punished. Even if the person is not guilty, this has some strong appeal, because the person can escape the vigor of the prosecutors and stop paying legal defense fees, which can be as much as $10,000 or $20,000 by this point.
But, there is a catch. By signing a Consent Order one gives up the rights to any further review.
A few poor souls decide to keep fighting––proclaiming their innocence. This can cost them well over $25,000 or even over $50,000, and also their mental health, since the stress is so profound. And if they lose, they are burned at the stake. And based on probabilities, maybe even innocent.
Gerd Gigerenzer, in his special issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, warns that screening procedures have two errors, false negatives and false positives. Both cause harm and both have costs and should be considered very, very carefully.
At the LSBEP, we have created conditions ripe for problems, and Mr. Raines’ fees are a symptom of a failing program.
Any program that hinges, not on scientific validity and sound, transparent methodology, but instead on the presence or absence of wisdom, knowledge, and integrity––in those applying that program, is very bad.
It’s time to get the attorneys out of the middle of everything, and get qualified psychologists to design a valid, evidence-based screening process that is cost-effective and that protects the public as well as the rights of licensees.
We are psychologists, this is what we do. It is our duty to apply our science so that programs do the most good and cause the least amount of harm.
Screen shot from Monty Python, on uTube, “She’s a witch!”
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Gov Edwards Loses Suit Against the AG
On December 14 Judge Todd Hernandez dismissed Governor Edwards executive order about anti-discrimination in the workplace. Hernandez ruled that the executive order was unconstitutional, and was an extension of executive power that was not provided for by the constitution.
Earlier this year, Edwards issued an Executive Order requiring LGBT anti- discrimination language in state contracts. The Attorney General, Jeff Landry, had refused to allow the state to hire outside attorneys if the contracts include anti- discrimination language.
According to a report in Associated Press by Melinda Deslatte, Landry argued that the Executive Order that Edwards issued creates a new protected class and is not within the Governor’s authority.
The report said that Edwards and Landry met but couldn’t agree. "He basically told me if I wanted him to approve those contracts that I would have to sue him. So I'm going to oblige him on that," Gov. Edwards said.
After the ruling by Hernandez, the Attorney General said, “I applaud Judge Hernandez for basing his ruling on the law, not politics,” as reported by WTOL.
"We are disappointed in the court's ruling today. However, we fully intend to appeal this issue, Gov. Edwards said.
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The Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing is amending LAC 50:XV.703 in the Medical Assistance Program. The Emergency Rule is addresses the adopted provisions to establish coverage and reimbursement for applied behavior analysis (ABA)- based therapy services under the Medicaid State Plan for ABA- based therapy services for Chisholm class members and other children under the age of 21 (See Louisiana Register, Volume 41, Number 5).
“The department has now determined that it is necessary to amend the reimbursement methodology governing ABA- based therapy services in order to realign the reimbursement rates to be consistent with the commercial rates for these services which will be in effect statewide in January 2017. This action is being taken to avoid a budget deficit in the Medicaid Program. It is estimated that implementation of this Emergency Rule will reduce expenditures in the Medicaid Program by approximately $3,609,821 for state fiscal year 2016-2017,” noted the announcement.
Effective January 1, 2017, this amends the provisions governing the reimbursement methodology for applied behavior analysis-based therapy services covered under the Medicaid State Plan.
Interested persons may submit written comments to Jen Steele, Bureau of Health Services Financing, P.O. Box 91030, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-9030 or by email to MedicaidPolicy@la.gov. Ms. Steele is responsible for responding to inquiries regarding this proposed Rule.
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President-elect Donald Trump's choice of Rep. Tom Price, to head the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is dividing doctors, reports a Medscape review by Robert Lowes in December.
Some greet the pick of Price, who is a medical doctor, and chair of the House Budget Committee, “as a guardian of the physician-patient relationship and an opponent of burdensome government regulations.”
Others are concerned, says the report, that “the orthopedic surgeon will reduce access to healthcare by helping his party repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). They also fear that he will restrict abortion rights and turn his back on the needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.”
Results from a study of over 1000 physicians, through an online survey conducted by the firm Merritt Hawkins, show that 46% generally feel positive about Dr Price, said Medscape.
However, 42% lean negative, and 12% are neutral.
“Although this support of Dr Price slightly outweighs opposition, 47% of physicians said that, if confirmed, he would detract from the ability of patients to obtain access to quality care compared with 42% who believe the opposite.”
Regarding physician well- being 46% percent said medical-practice conditions would improve with Dr. Price at the helm of HHS, while 34% said it would be worse.
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The Psychology Times 2016 COMMUNITY AWARD INNOVATION Dr. Bonnie Nastasi
For Tulane’s prolific scholar, Dr. Bonni Nastasi, the world is her community. She was not only honored in 2016 as one of the most prolific scholars in school psychology, she continued her innovations and multi-year research efforts across the globe. We reported on her innovations where she combined elements of clinical, school, and organizational psychology to aid those is Sri Lanka and elsewhere. She has tirelessly created new methods that can reach children in the most need, a mission that started for her years ago at the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child. For her amazing insights in the science and application of psychology, we name her as our innovator for 2016. We thank her for allowing the rest of us to share in her vision of a better world.
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The Psychology Times 2016 COMMUNITY AWARD ALTRUISM Beth and Dr. Raphael Salcedo and Dr. Mark Crosby
We continue to be amazed by the determination and self-sacrifice of the Salcedos, and the effort they pour into saving the lives and the psyches of the most abused children of our time, the sex-trafficked girls who find safety and healing at the Free Indeed Home. This year we reported on the hassles the Salcedos endured and overcame when red tape and indifference almost shut down the Home. These two are true heroes and continue to deserve all we can do for them.
We also name Dr. Mark Crosby this year for his leadership and selflessness in the Watson community, ground zero for the Flood of 2016. He dedicated himself to seeing the community through the stages of the catastrophe and is far from the end of that service. Our hats go off to Dr. Crosby this year also.
Dr. Raphael Salcedo on his tractor at the Free Indeed Home.
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The Psychology Times 2016 COMMUNITY AWARD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Dr. Tracey Rizzuto
Dr. Tracey Rizzuto is not one to sit in her office looking at a computer screen. While she might do that too––there seems to be very little she doesn’t do–– she is out in the community making things happen. She seems to be everywhere doing anything to make the community better. We covered her work in violence prevention at BRAVE, her organizing the Women’s Leadership, and her leading the SIOP Consortia for the national association. This is only the tip of the iceberg in what this powerhouse leader does to develop our community. She has our thanks and admiration.
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