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registration rates, Siegel and Alvaro developed the “IIFF Model” of organ donor registration behavior. The model suggests that four factors can directly increase donor registration: 1. An immediate and complete opportunity for registration, by offering the chance to enroll in the state donor registry, for example. 2. The provision of information about registration availability, procedures and religion-based objections. 3. Focused engagement, asking potential donors for their reasons for not registering. 4. Favorable activation, stimulated through a group discussion designed to confirm pro-donation beliefs and debunk anti-donation myths. In an evaluation of a pilot program using the model published in Psychology: Health and Medicine (Vol. 15, No. 2), researchers reported that nearly 50 percent of the study’s 131 focus group participants, who had been screened ahead of time to be “passiveincreasing donor registration positives,” signed donor cards at the end of the intervention. Why aren’t more Americans signed up to donate their organs? “Extrapolated to the general population, such a finding Claremont Graduate University health psychologist Jason could result in millions of new registrants and greatly improve Siegel, PhD, says it might just come down to low motivation. the frequency of life-saving transplants,” Siegel says. “This is something that people can put off, literally, until Other psychologists are working to increase organ donor they die,” says Siegel, co-editor with colleague Eusebio Alvaro, registration by bringing empirically tested educational PhD, of “Understanding Organ Donation: Applied Behavioral interventions to workplaces. University of Chicago social Science Perspectives” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). psychologist Michael Quinn, PhD, found, for example, To combat this ambivalence and increase organ donation that people who attended brief educational sessions where they were given information on the need for organ donation, heard the stories of a transplant recipient and the family of a posthumous organ donor, and then were Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorders provided specific instruction on how in Special Populations to become an organ donor were almost A Cognitive Restructuring Program twice as likely to sign up for donations Kim T. Mueser, Stanley D. Rosenberg, and Harriet J. Rosenberg compared with a control group that 2009. 404 pages. Hardcover. attended a health fair and received List: $69.95 • APA Member/Affiliate: $49.95 • ISBN 978-1-4338-0464-9 • Item # 4317195 brochures on the topic. (Progress in Transplantation Vol. 16, No. 3.) Helping Families and Communities These types of community and Recover From Disaster workplace-based programs may provide Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath Edited by Ryan P. Kilmer, Virginia Gil-Rivas, Richard G. Tedeschi, the greatest promise in improving organ and Lawrence G. Calhoun donation rates, says Mary Ganikos, 2010. 340 pages. Hardcover. PhD, public and professional education List: $69.95 • APA Member/Affiliate: $49.95 • ISBN 978-1-4338-0544-8 • Item # 4316114 chief of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration Division of Helping Children Cope With Disasters Transplantation, which funds grant and Terrorism programs focusing on organ donation Edited by Annette M. La Greca, Wendy K. Silverman, Eric M. Vernberg, and partners with public and private and Michael C. Roberts 2002. 446 pages. Hardcover. organizations throughout the country List: $49.95 • APA Member/Affiliate: $39.95 • ISBN 978-1-55798-914-7 • Item # 431794A to promote awareness of the need for FAD0028 organs. “We basically reach out to institutions www.apa.org/books • 800-374-2721 where people work, worship, study and including issues around chronic disease and disparities in access to health care,” says Mary Amanda Dew, PhD, a psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center. Psychologists are also evaluating potential recipients for transplants to ensure candidates have the support they need to follow strict post-transplant lifestyles. And psychological researchers are studying the factors that appear to help some patients live longer than others. “The medical community is very new to — but also very embracing of — the role that psychologists can play” in this area, says Larissa Myaskovsky, PhD, a social psychologist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who studies the effects of discrimination on organ transplantation. “There are so many avenues that are rich for this work.” Focus on Trauma 76 Monitor on psychology • DeceMber 2011 http://www.apa.org/books

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