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VOL. 13, NO. 2 ::: MARCH/APRIL, 2004

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The California Psychological Association (CPA) has joined a broad-based coalition backing a proposed ballot initiative that would tax the state's estimated 33,000 millionaires to provide as much as $680 million for a wide range of mental health services.

Known as the Mental Health Services Act, the ballot initiative is expected to be on the November ballot. To read more about this story, subscribe here.

Newsweek called him a "sleeping gun witness in the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin case and a composite photograph he coaxed from a person under hypnosis landed on TV's "America's Most Wanted," leading to the arrest of the St. Louis "south Side rapist."

William C. Wester II, Ed.D., of Cincinnati, is one of a handful of forensic psychologists using hypnosis as a crime-fighting tool to aid law enforcement in finding criminal suspects involved in everything from burglary to homicide. To read more about this story, subscribe here.

Prison suicides account for 400 to 600 deaths per year, making it the leading cause of death in most correctional facilities. To read more about this story, subscribe here

APA Council of Representatives kept in dark on Fowler’s $2.2 million payout by Board

By John Thomas, Associate Editor

Washington — A normally routine mid-winter meeting of the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives exploded in recriminations when members learned that Raymond D. Fowler, Ph.D. received $2.2 million when he retired as CEO at the end of 2002.
Contributing to the acrimony was the fact that most members were just learning of the payout more than a year after it was paid and only then because of a gossip column item in The Washington Post.

Maine, New Hampshire keep RxP on front burner

Psychologists in two neighboring New England states experienced different results in their attempts to convince legislators to create commissions to study the access to psychotropic medications in their largely rural populations.

Five interventions recognized

Evidence-based treatments identified for geriatric depression

By Paula Hartman-Stein, Ph.D.
With antidepressant medication as the first line of treatment in protocols endorsed by insurance companies, and Medicare requiring proof of medical necessity for all services, the identification of research-based psychological treatments for depressed older adults has arrived none too soon.

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