A Brief Message from Your President and President-Elect

At the Division 42 Social Hour at the APA Convention, President Lisa Grossman welcomed over 100 members and prospective members. Here are her introductory remarks:

Welcome, everyone, to the 2010 Division 42 Membership Meeting and Social Hour. I am Lisa Grossman, this year’s President of Psychologists in Independent Practice. 42 has been very busy this year with many products that we hope you find valuable to your practice, including:

• ETIPS-Ethical Tips for the Independent Practitioner 
• MTIPS-Marketing Tips for the Independent Practitioner
• Our new Mentorshoppe that houses three Mentoring Programs, including
  • Mentoring for the ABPP Senior Certification in Clinical Psychology
  • Mentoring for our Students and Early Career Psychologists
  • Mentoring to become a Fellow in our division
• Pay It Forward Initiative 
• Orientation Manual for incoming board members
• Student Travel Award Paper Contest 
• Advocacy Training Manual
• Membership Outreach Program
• Multicultural Competency Toolkit
• Our Dynamic Listserv
• Our Outstanding Independent Practitioner Bulletin

And it’s so simple to join. You can apply online HERE on our website or pick up a membership application here and either fill it out today or mail it in.

And none of these projects would see the light of day without the outstanding leadership of your board of directors whom I would like to introduce at this time. 

Past president: Tammy Causey-Martin 

President-elect: Nancy Molitor

Secretary: Michael Murphy

Treasurer: Laura Barbanel

Members-at-Large: June Ching (who is also our Fellows Chair), Gordon Herz, Sally Horwatt, Elaine LeVine, Morgan Sammons, and Jeff Younggren. Michael Schwartz is our ECP Representative and Jill Standing is our Student Representative (both of whom are also co-chairs of the S/ECP Committee. 

Council Representatives: Stanley Graham, Doug Haldeman (who is also our Diversity Chair), Jo Johnson, Bonnie Markham, Bob Resnick and Karen Zager.

Our Finance Chair is Gerry Koocher, Membership co-chairs Nancy Molitor and Jeff Zimmerman, Publications and Communications chair is Linda Campbell, Program Chair is Alex Siegel, Marketing and Public Education chair is Edna Esnil, Advocacy Chair is Sallie Hildebrandt, Internet Editor is Pauline Wallin, IP Editor is Steve Walfish.

And I want to welcome our newly elected officers: 

Members-at-large: Bruce Frumkin, Lori Thomas and Jeff Zimmerman.

Council Representatives: Incumbents Stanley Graham, Jo Johnson and newly elected Bob Woody. 

And, of course, our president-elect designate, Jeff Younggren. 

And last, but certainly not least, I want to recognize our Division Officer, Jeannie Beeaff, without whom the Division couldn’t possibly run.

Lisa Grossman, JD, PhD, ABPP
2010 President, Division 42

In their efforts to build a two-way bridge between research and practice, the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of APA, invites you to take the survey described below.

Wanted: Clinicians’ Feedback on Treating Panic Disorder

Once a drug has been approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) as a result of clinical trials, practitioners have the opportunity to offer feedback to the FDA on any shortcomings in the use  of the drug in clinical practice. The Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12 of the American Psychological Association, is in the process of establishing  a mechanism whereby practicing psychotherapists can report their clinical  experiences using empirically supported treatments (ESTs). 

This is not only an opportunity for clinicians to share their experiences with other therapists, but also can offer information that can encourage researchers to investigate ways of overcoming  these limitations. We are starting with the treatment of panic disorder, but  will extend our efforts to the treatment of other problems at a later time. 

Our Web site provides the opportunity for  therapists using cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) in treating panic to share  their clinical experiences about those variables they have found to limit the  successful reduction of symptomatology. Although research is underway to determine if other therapies can successfully treat panic, CBT is the only approach at present that is an EST. However, in order for the field to move from an EST to an evidence-based treatment that works well in practice settings, we need to know more about the clinical experience of therapists who make use of  these interventions in actual clinical practice. By identifying the obstacles  to successful treatment, we can then take steps to overcome these  shortcomings. 

Your responses, which will be anonymous, will be tallied with those of other therapists and posted on the Division 12 website at a later time. The results of the feedback we receive from clinicians will be provided to researchers, in the hope they can investigate ways of overcoming these obstacles. 

The survey, which should take 10 minutes, can be found at: www.div12,org/panic