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apa news Apply for an ethnic-minority recruitment and training grant APA’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology II (CEMRRAT2) Task Force is seeking proposals for the CEMRRAT Implementation Grants Fund for Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology. The funds support demonstration projects and activities by individuals or institutions that aim to enhance or increase ethnicminority recruitment, retention and training in psychology. APA will fund two to four proposals under each of these seven priority areas: • Professional development on linguistic minorities: Projects that promote development of training and professional development programs that aim to improve services to linguistic minorities. • Racial/ethnic minority health disparities: Activities that increase the number of prospective and early career ethnic minority psychology faculty committed to health disparities research, and who will contribute to role modeling in academic settings. (This category is not designed to support research projects, faculty salary supplements, to supplement post-doctoral fellowships or dissertation research.) • Faculty development: Projects that promote multicultural competence in teaching, practice and research among a program’s psychology faculty. Individual professional development will be considered only if the applicant presents evidence of limited institutional support or resources for such activities. • Undergraduate and graduate innovation: Activities for undergraduate and graduate departments and professional schools related to developing 80 innovative strategies for recruitment, retention and graduation of ethnicminority students in psychology. • STEM: Activities that support individuals, organizations and educational institutions that are committed to identifying, demonstrating, documenting or disseminating innovative tools and strategies that define psychology as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics discipline. • Indigenous approaches: Initiatives that support outreach, applied experiences and service learning for ethnic-minority students. • Assessment of ethnic-minority representation and participation in psychology: Data collection and research on ethnic-minority recruitment, retention, education, graduation, leadership development, training and diversity in psychology. All proposals must be received by the APA Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs by April 1. Information and materials required for submission are at www.apa.org/about/awards/pubintcemrrt.aspx. Send questions and submissions via email to oema@apa.org. Nominate a Latina(o)/hispanic colleague for the tomes Awards The Council of National Psychological Associations for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Interests is accepting nominations for the Henry Tomes Awards for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Psychology, presented every other year at APA’s National Multicultural Conference and Summit. The Tomes Awards honor psychologists from each ethnic-minority community — African-American, Alaska Native/ American Indian, Asian-American/ Pacific Islander, Latina(o)/HispanicAmerican — on a rotating basis. The 2013 Tomes Awards will recognize one Latina(o)/HispanicAmerican psychologist in each of these two categories: • A senior psychologist who has been in the field for 20 or more years and whose work demonstrates distinguished contributions to the empowerment of ethnic minority individuals and communities in all of the following areas: 1) the development and promotion of ethnic-minority psychology in the areas of research, training, practice or policy; 2) advocacy in the interests and psychological wellbeing of individuals across multiple ethnic- minority communities; and 3) leadership in institutions and organizations to advance ethnic minority interests in the practice, science or education of psychology. • An emerging psychologist who has earned a doctoral degree no earlier than 2003, and whose work has already influenced and demonstrates promise for distinguished contributions toward the empowerment of ethnic minority individuals and communities in the following areas: 1) development and promotion of ethnic minority psychology in two of the four following areas — research, training, practice and policy — with emerging efforts in the remaining two; 2) advocacy in the interests and psychological wellbeing of people in one of the following ethnic minority communities: AfricanAmerican, Alaska Native/American Indian, Asian-American/Pacific Islander and Latino/a-Americans (with emerging contributions to at least one other ethnic minority community); and 3) leadership in institutions and organizations to M o n i t o r o n p s y c h o l o g y • J a n u a ry 2 0 1 2 http://www.apa.org/about/awards/pubint-cemrrt.aspx http://www.apa.org/about/awards/pubint-cemrrt.aspx

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - January 2012

Monitor on Psychology - January 2012
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
Contents
From the CEO
Apa’s Statement on the Dsm-5 Development Process
Girl Scouts Badge Promotes Positive Psychology
Early Investments Pay Off for Poor Children, Study Finds
Apa Meets With Chinese Psychological Society to Further Interaction and Exchange
Unique Opportunity for Psychologists to Travel to Cuba
In Brief
Government Relations Update
On Your Behalf
Psychology’s Growing Library of Podcasts
Standing Up for Psychology
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Questionnaire
Science Watch
Beyond Psychotherapy
Perspective on Practice
Yes, Recovery Is Possible
Inequity to Equity
Making E-Learning Work
New Standards for High School Psychology
A Trailblazer Moves On
Psychologist Profile
Plan Now for Psychology’s Regional Meetings
New Journal Editors
Apa News
Division Spotlight
American Psychological Foundation
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - January 2012