APA PLANNING MEETING MINUTES
Apropos Restaurant, Boston Sheraton, Friday Aug 15, 7:30-9:30 AM

 

Reports from committee chairs (or representative)

• Programs & Conferences - Karen White (kwhite1@niu.edu)

o    We would like to call the "mid-year" meeting the "Annual Meeting" since most of our important activities occur then. APA has become just a planning meeting and a couple of presentations. So, this March, 2009 meeting will be called the Annual ADPTC Meeting.
o    We want to have an explicit focus at the beginning of the conference on welcoming new members since this meetings is the first in 3 years that will have only ADPTCers in attendance. Some ideas to facilitate new ADPTCers' welcome:

• Solicit input from new members regarding questions, their needs for consultations, wishes to connect with specific committees or individual members.
• Provide some structured opportunities into the program for new members to interact with current members (e.g., break out groups, one-on-one consultations).

o    There was some discussion of having a presentation of a Friend of ADPTC award, and /or a Jean Spruill Award. Kim Lassiter's name came up as a good nominee for this sort of recognition. More discussion is needed on this, especially to determine if Kim would be able to come to the meeting; the sense was that she could/would.
o    Eric Sauer and Bob Hatcher noted that here should be a specific time to present some opportunity to discuss use of the OQ. Karen White needs to follow up with Eric and Bob on these details.
o    Suggestions for content at the Annual Meeting" are noted on the attached outline. The most prominent issues include: 1) diversity, serving the under-served, and training issues related to those topics; 2) anchoring the history of ADPTC with our vision for the future (maybe a panel discussion format); 3) addressing needs for professional development and self-care for training clinic directors, strengthening our roles in our departments, modeling self-care skills, and attention to professional development for trainees. .

• Membership & Resources-Karen Saules (ksaules@emich.edu)

o    Website/Listserv-Karen Saules
o    Membership & Fiscal Records-Joe Scardapane (joseph.r.scardapane@hofstra.edu)
o    Elections-Rob Heffer (rob-heffer@tamu.edu)
o    Meeting Records-Colleen Byrne (cbyrne@psyc.umd.edu)

• Publications & Public Relations-Phyllis Terry Friedman (friedmpt@slu.edu)

o    Newsletter-Phyllis Terry Friedman (Editor)

• The newsletter committee/ Phyllis Terry Friedman, Vic Pantesco, and Robin Weill, is soliciting volunteers to write up a book review for each newsletter. Books can be broadly related to psychology. The review is needed by October 1st for the November 2008 newsletter, and March 1st for the April 2009 newsletter. The committee is also soliciting links to published articles and papers which members have written or presented. We can publish presentations but need just a brief paragraph about a publication and the link (for copyright reasons we cannot publish published articles). We also agreed to move the newsletter to the public section (currently it is for members only).
• New Director Support-Leticia Flores (lyflores@vcu.edu) and Stephen Cook (s.cook@ttu.edu) (co-chairs)
• Awards & Recognition-Erica Wise (ewise@unc.edu)
• Research-Eric Sauer (eric.sauer@wmich.ed)
• Diversity-Elaine Shpungin (shpungin@uiuc.edu)

o    Please see attached report submitted by Elaine Shpungin.

• Collaboration & Liaison-Tony Cellucci (cellanth@isu.edu)

o    Several ADPTC members of this committee have represented us at different meetings. Bob Hatcher reported on CCTC activities related to practicum competencies. Planning has also begun for CCTC joint conference in 2010. Philinda Hutchings provided our membership with an informative report of the BEA meeting for ADPTC. Erica Wise attended ACCTA this year. Eric Sauer has agreed to attend ELC for ADPTC next month. As Kim Lassiter is no longer a clinic director, Bob Hatcher has agreed to attend APPIC in Oregon this year. The ADPTC liaison report was updated after the midyear meeting and will be revised again. The liaison committee is recruiting a school psychologist who can represent us ad CDSPP.

• By-Laws & Documents-Rob Heffer

o    Professional Training Competencies-Bob Hatcher (robhatch@umich.edu)
o    Administrative Guidelines-Brian Lewis (Chair, blewis@miami.edu)
o    By-Laws Revisions-Rob Heffer
o    Policy/Procedures/Planning-Erica Wise

Public Relations and Member Recruitment

• Review ADPTC brochure created by Phyllis Terry Friedman
• Other suggestions?

Outcome Questionnaire Analyst

• Proposal from Lambert's group, OQ LLC, for using the OQ and related measures.
  Eric Sauer
  

The New ADPTC website

• Countdown to launch: Erica Wise (for Karen Saules)

ADPTC and Committee Leadership

• Incorporating new members onto ADPTC committees and leadership: Erica Wise and Stephen Cook

Annual Meeting Update: Chapel Hill, March 12-15 2009

• Programs and planning: Erica Wise, Rob Heffer and Karen White

By-laws review

• Regarding ADPTC's meeting emphasis/attendance shift from the August APA convention to our mid-year meeting
  

• Implications for the timing of elections and installation of new officers Rob Heffer

Update on planning for the CCTC 2010 meeting and proposal for special TEPP issue on training clinics:

    Erica Wise and Tony Cellucci (for Bob Hatcher)

Mid-year  Meeting:  Potential presentation/discussion topics

    Note.  The topics outlined below are suggestions, not fully developed or endorsed plans.  Please weigh in with : opinions, indication of willingness to participate/present, names of folks who could be good presenters, contact information.

1. Diversity, Serving the Under-served, Social Justice  (related topics)

• Training issues in working with underserved, minority, disadvantaged groups

o    Developmental issues for student clinicians in fostering clinical competence with "non-majority" clients
o    Competencies of supervisors in working with wide range of clients and beginning clinicians

• Potential speakers: members of UNC-Duke-NCSU academic community
• Suggestions from Erica Wise and others from NC regarding local experts?
• Suggestions from Program Comm members?
• Supervision and training of student clinicians in working with clients with disabilities, and/or clinicians with disabilities

o    Potential presenter - Randy Cox?

• Update on Diversity Climate Survey for ADPTC members

o    Ideas requested from Elaine Shpungin?  Are there other issues, besides the survey that the Divers. Comm. would like to present?
o    Suggestions from other members of Diversity Committee?

• Social justice issues in training clinic practica

o    Developmental issues in clinical competence regarding social justice issues

• consider the developmental competencies that students are expected to acquire at different stages in their training.
• Community outreach and its role in training clinics
• "How to develop social justice as a training goal"; panel discussion topic?

o    Potential speakers:

• Brian Lewis
• Suggestions from Brian Lewis
• Isaac Prilleltensky (dean at Univ. of Miami)
• Etiony Aldarondo (Univ. of Miami, recently published text, "Advancing Social Justice through Clinical Practice").
• Contributors to the book "Handbook of Social Justice in Counseling Psychology".

• Suggestion from Vic Pantesco

o    Karen Fondacaro, Univ. of Vermont, Clinic director

• Refugee counseling program

    Names mentioned at APA Breakfast/Planning meeting

Julian Rappaport, U of Illinois -Champaign Clinical/Community Division

Rebecca Toporek,  Department of Counseling
San Francisco State University

John Curry (was his name mentioned?  Is this the John curry at Duke Univ?

2.  "Anchoring History and Vision for ADPTC"

o    Reflections on March 1999 when the "gang of 12" met in Chicago for
the first ADPTC mid-year meeting.  Brian Lewis, then ADPTC President,
guided the group (Jean Spruill, Bob Hatcher, Lee Cooper, Phyllis Terry
Friedman, Carol Yoken, Manny Gerton, Mary Alice Conroy, Tony Cellucci,
John Flora-Tostado, Bobbi Vollmer, and Rob Heffer) toward a broader
vision of how ADPTC could equip training clinic directors and influence
professional psychology education and practice on a broader scale.  We
can then develop a renewed vision for ADPTC's future direction.

3. A panel discussion of models, context of work environment for training directors

• staff, non-tenure track faculty, tenure-track faculty
• at Ph.D. and Psy.D. doctoral training programs
• Strengthening our roles
• Self-care and personal/professional development for clinic directors.
• How do directors advance, promote, and develop professionally?
• "Fostering self-care in Psychology Trainees" - possible presentation by Vic Pantesco

4.    Ideas for the Jean Spruill Achievement Award for an ADPTC-er.

 Jean was the first recipient of the Achievement Award for her co-founding of ADPTC and active involvement for almost three decades. The two past recipients of the "Friend of
ADPTC Award" have been Paul Nelson (APA-New Orleans) and Jeff Baker
(ADPTC Mid-Year Meeting-San Antonio).

o    Kim Lassiter mentioned as a recipient of this award or have some other recognition

Other topics

• technological issues (e.g., digital videotaping, use of OQ in training clinics (Eric Sauer?)
• conducting background checks of students--practical, legal, and ethical issues
• developing and producing annual reports for clinics
• recruiting/soliciting clinic clients for research participation - practical and ethical issues
• custody issues, child clients, and consent to treatment
• dismissing trainees
• different models for screening/intakes/initial client contact
• standardized assessment packages: beyond the OQ -- practical and ethical issues
• students informed consent for supervision (there was a special section in PPRP in the last couple of years )

Thoughts on structure of conference in Chapel Hill:

  - Suggestions welcomed here....

• Assuming 2.5 days for conference
• Goals to accomplish

o    Connect with new members
o    Re-connect with "ADPTCers only"
o    Cover content areas of interest

• Topics of interest
• Under-served, Social Justice
• History and future of ADPTC
• Self-care, self-development for Directors

Possible scenario:

    Day One

• Open/Welcome
• New directors:

o    Opportunities to connect with ADPTC members

• Submit topics/questions to discuss with ADPTCer with similar interests
• Form small discussion groups around new director-generated questions/requests

o    Introduction of Committees, needs for participation (part of "business" agenda?
o    Do we want to cover more of the usual "business agenda" on the first day?

• Major Presentation on:

o    Social Justice, under-served, diversity issues

• Length? Format?

Day Two

• Application (?) of major content area from previous day?
• Technology in Training Clinics
• OQ and other program evaluation, research in training clinics
• Research presentation (?)
• Professional development, self-care for directors?

Day Three

• Committee meetings
• Executive Committee Meeting time