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VOL. 14, NO. 5 :::
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER,
2005
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One psychologist gives his view on the APA "Gitmo Report" and its effects on police psychologists. "I can neither condone nor condemn psychologists’ practices with the detainees at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) detention center. After all, the classified nature of actions and treatment of detainees precludes my knowing exactly what occurred there and the context in which activities were conducted."
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A film called Get the Fire! shown at the APA’s 2004 annual convention in Honolulu created enough heat that its smoldering carried over to this year’s convention in Washington D.C. To read
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Many mental health professionals have expressed an interest in providing new kinds of services for reasons including financial security, diversification of job description or just to do something different in part of their work day.
John Bertschler, Ph.D., indicates that several veteran clinicians in his practice have filled many of these needs by entering the field of conflict resolution and divorce mediation and have found it to be an excellent match. To read
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RxP training issue still boiling
By James Bradshaw
Assistant Editor
Washington – The controversy over proposed psychopharmacological training standards fueled heated concerns from training school administrators and others at the 2005 convention of the American Psychological Association.
Several members of Division 55, the American Society for the
Advancement of Pharmacotherapy (ASAP), viewed efforts of the
National Register of Health Services Providers in Psychology
(NR) and the Association of State and Provincial Psychology
Boards (ASPPB) to draw up training criteria as a takeover
attempt that could usurp APA’s oversight of RxP training.
7/7: The British Reaction to Terrorist Bombings in London
By Scott E. Borrelli, Ed.D.
There couldn’t have been a more complicated moment for the bombs to go off in London on 7/7. That was the week that was.
The Live 8 benefit concert had just concluded the largest consciousness raising arts activity in history, delivering a powerful message to the G-8 members to “make poverty history” in Africa.
The finale of Wimbledon meant that families everywhere
were liberated from their “tellys” after being
captivated by a sobering week of tennis in which no Brit
won. Next, Londoners were dancing in Trafalgar Square in
a colossal celebration having beaten Paris (their arch
rival) to host the Olympics in 2012.
Baptists replace psychology with ‘Biblical counseling’
By Richard E. Gill
Assistant Editor
Religion and psychology are not necessarily in conflict, but a move by the Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., to drop the latter from its curriculum poses questions about their compatibility.
A June news release stated, “The seminary wants students
to be skeptical of modern psychology. Instead, the
seminary prefers that students first look to the Bible.”
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