Education and Training (ET) Caucus

1. Please describe ways in which you have met the criteria for Education and Training Caucus support:

I have participated as a faculty member, a trainer, supervisor and researcher for and with graduate students and programs for nearly thirty years. We initiated an APA accredited internship when I worked at the University of Florida Counseling Center in the early eighties. Then I was hired to develop an APA accredited internship at the University of Memphis in 1985. Our internship has been continuously fully accredited since that time. I supervised interns and developed and led the ethnic training track. I have served on the psychology faculty at 3 different institutions. At the University of Memphis I have been on the faculty in both counseling and clinical psychology. I write with graduate students in order to help them begin their publication journey. I have just finished successfully lobbying for an increase in the stipend paid to our interns. I am fully dedicated to education and training. I am an educator who is still very active on student dissertation, masters, and specialist committees.

2. If you achieve office, in what ways would your goals reflect the philosophy and interests of the Education and Training Caucus?

The theme of my campaign is Exclusion is Easy, but Inclusion is Power . I believe that APA has two major concerns, Guild Issues and Societal Issues. Under guild issues are: the right to work and get paid; creation and dissemination of knowledge; and training and education. Under societal issues are: access and empowerment; health: and peace and violence. So right up front is my belief that a major concern of APA must be education and training because that is who we are. Without education and training there can be no professional field of psychology. I will emphasize collaboration between scientists and practitioners for a more powerful APA.

3. How would you intend to carry out your goals?

I intend to bring together some of the major thinkers, practitioners and scientists to work on problem-based; solution-focused issues. The best way to build collaboration is by working through problems that matter. and then getting the solutions out to our Education and Training agencies. I expect to ask education and training agencies to partner with me in this endeavor.