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Your Practice Assessment in Action 10 Advocacy Activities from the APA Practice Organization A Companion to the American Psychological Association Dear Colleague: In today’s challenging economy, members want to know now more than ever how their professional associations are helping them. This summary highlights a broad range of recent advocacy activities by the American Psychological Association Practice Organization (APA Practice Organization, or APAPO) to advance and protect the professional interests of practicing psychologists. The APA Practice Organization is a companion organization to the American Psychological Association (APA) established in 2001 to enable new and expanded advocacy activities that support the psychology practice community. Created as a 501 (c)(6) organization under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rules, the APA Practice Organization is able to advocate free of IRS restrictions and prohibitions that apply to activities of a 501(c)(3) organization like APA. APAPO’s activities are limited only by available resources. Practice Assessment payments to APAPO from licensed APA members provide vital resources for sustaining our wide ranging advocacy work – from protecting the doctoral standard for the independent practice of psychology to challenging rate cuts for psychological services, supporting litigation against abusive managed care practices and representing professional psychology’s interests on Capitol Hill. You help others. We help you. Sincerely, Katherine C. Nordal, PhD Executive Director, APA Practice Organization P.S. We are always eager for our practitioner members to let us know how we can meet your professional interests and needs. Please email us at practice@apa.org or call toll-free, 1-800-374-2723. Here are 10 examples of advocacy activities between January and October 2011, supported by the APAPO Practice Assessment: A NATIONAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP The APA Practice Organization Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice (CAPP) and APAPO collaborate closely with state, provincial and territorial psychological associations (SPTAs). The national organization provides ﬁnancial, consultative and other support for numerous advocacy eﬀorts at the state level. CAPP grants totaling nearly $5.8 million have been given to SPTAs for legislative initiatives, organizational development and additional uses since APAPO began in 2001. These grants are funded by Practice Assessment payments from APA Practice Organization members. 1 Affirming the doctoral standard for independent psychology practice. CAPP awarded the Texas Psychological Association (TPA) an emergency grant of $10,000, and APAPO collaborated with TPA on legal issues and strategy as the state psychological association joined a legal battle to protect the doctoral standard for independent psychology practice. This initiative culminated in an August 2011 affirmation by the Austin District Court that the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists had statutory authority to require that “psychological associates” trained at the masters level be supervised by licensed psychologists trained at the doctoral level.

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - December 2011

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Willpower Pioneer Wins $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize
Single-Sex Schooling Called Into Question by Prominent Researchers
Maternal Depression Stunts Childhood Growth, Research Suggests
For Boys, Sharing May Seem Like a Waste of Time
Good News for Postdoc Applicants
In Brief
Treatment Guideline Development Now Under Way
Government Relations Update
Psychologist Named Va Mental Health Chief
The Limits of Eyewitness Testimony
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Deconstructing Suicide
Questionnaire
A Focus on Interdisciplinarity
A Time of ‘Enormous Change’
The Science Behind Team Science
Good Science Requires Good Conflict
A New Paradigm of Care
Speaking of Education
Science Directions
New Labels, New Attitudes?
Psychologist Profile
Early Career Psychology
Unintended Consequences
Better Options for Troubled Teens
Saving Lives, One Organ at a Time
New Journal Editors
APA News
Division Spotlight
Guidelines for the Conduct of President-Elect Nominations and Elections
American Psychological Foundation
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011