Please see the attached announcement.
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Director, Vermont Center on Behavior and Health
Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology
Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry
University of Vermont
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2014-02-24
[DIV28SUPER] Fwd: APA 2014 Call for Applications for the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
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The Call for Applications to the 7th Annual APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (2014-2015) has officially opened! The deadline to apply is March 17, 2014. To view the Call for Applications (also embedded at the bottom of this message) please visit: http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/leadership/call.aspx
Please note, the APA LIWP is open to mid-career* women psychologists in academic or academic medicine, and clinical or clinical consulting settings who are full APA members in good standing. Please review the Call for Applications for a complete list of eligibility criteria. There are two separate applications housed at the link above, be sure to complete the one for the track you identify with most. Check out the APA LIWP Frequently Asked Questions here: http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/leadership/faq.aspx.
* - mid-career is defined by the APA LIWP Executive Committee as being no more than twenty (20) years and no less than ten (10) years post-doctoral degree. If you are more than twenty years post-doctoral degree and feel you are “mid-career”, please explain why in the appropriate section of the application.
Should you require additional information or assistance, please contact Wynter Oshiberu at 202-336-6044, or woshiberu@apa.org. Thank you.
2014 Call for Applications to the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
7th Annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
Aug. 4-6, 2014, and March 25-26, 2015, Washington, D.C.
Applications are due March 17, 2014
The American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology (CWP) announces its seventh annual Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) to be held on Monday, Aug. 4, through Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, and Wednesday, March 25 through Thursday, March 26, 2015, in Washington, D.C. This year we are accepting approximately 20 mid-career women psychologists who work full time in academic or academic medical settings, and approximately 20 mid-career women psychologists who work primarily in clinical or consulting settings. Mid-career women psychologists in leadership roles in integrated primary care settings in academic health centers, public, community or private sectors are encouraged to apply as well.
This is a competitive process and modesty is not helpful in this regard. The applications for each group (a. academic/academic medical and b. clinical/consulting) are different. Please complete one application only, for the group with which you most clearly identify and for which you meet the eligibility criteria discussed below.
The overall mission of the APA LIWP is to empower, prepare and support women psychologists as leaders to promote positive changes in institutional, organizational and practice settings as well as APA and State, Provincial and Territorial Associations (SPTA) governance, and increase the diversity, number and effectiveness of women psychologists as leaders. The program's mission supports APA's goal to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare.
The objectives of the APA CWP Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology
1. Ensure that mid-career women in psychology have the knowledge and skills necessary to compete for leadership/senior management positions in academic, practice and other professional settings as well as APA and SPTA governance.
2. Enhance the number and effectiveness of women psychologists holding leadership positions in academic, practice and other professional settings as well as APA and SPTA governance.
3. Increase the diversity of women psychologists in academic, practice and other leadership positions as well as APA and SPTA governance.
4. Create networks of women psychologists in leadership/senior management positions in varied professional settings including APA and SPTA governance.
5. Document the career movement, professional advancement as well as the perceived impact of the LIWP among participants.
Who should apply?
Mid-career (10-20 years post-doctoral degree*) women psychologists with demonstrated leadership experience, strengths and goals who are APA members in good standing and
- holding either full-time, paid faculty appointments at the associate professor or clinical associate professor level or above in academic or academic medicine settings.**
Or
- working 20 or more hours per week in clinical or consulting settings. If you are in a clinical setting, you must be a licensed psychologist to apply to the LIWP.
Women of color, lesbian and bisexual women, transgender women and women with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
*If you are more than 20 years post-doctoral degree but view yourself as mid-career, you may apply but must provide careful justification for your application as a mid-career psychologist.
**If you are in an academic setting that does not have traditional faculty ranks and promotion processes, you may apply if you can provide an articulate justification for being at a career development state that is comparable to that of Associate Professor or Associate Clinical Professor, or greater.
Program components
The core curriculum includes highly interactive, skills-focused workshops with experts in the field:
- Leadership models
- Managing work-life balance
- Negotiation skills
- Fiscal, program and personnel issues
- Mentoring networks, including gender and diversity issues
- Mid-career management, goal Setting and planning
Previous institutes and Web seminars during the year have also addressed:
- Sustaining and funding a research program
- Strategic planning
- Dealing with difficult people
- Ethics from the leadership perspective
Applications and supporting materials (CV/resume and one letter of recommendation) are due by 5:00 p.m. EST on Monday, March 17, 2014. Please make sure you complete either the application for mid-career women in academic and academic medical settings or the application for mid-career women in clinical and consulting settings. Note that the applications have different questions, requirements and guidance for letters of recommendations.
If selected, the fee for participation in both the fall and spring programs is $600, which helps to defray costs of the program (faculty are entirely volunteer). Application to the program indicates you are making a commitment to participate fully, including completing surveys on an annual basis regarding career advancement and leadership training needs. Participants are also invited to Web seminars on leadership issues throughout the year and have access to a mailing list for LIWP participants, faculty and staff.
Selections will be announced by Friday, May 31, 2014.
For additional information, please visit our FAQ page to review frequently asked questions or contact the APA Women's Programs Office:
- Via surface mail at American Psychological Association, 750 First St., NE, Washington, D.C. 20002-4242
- Via phone at (202) 336-6044
- Via email
Funding
The American Psychological Association Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology 2013-2014 funders include the APA Women's Programs Office, the Women's Caucus of the APA Council of Representatives, the Society for the Psychology of Women and the APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology
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2014-02-23
[DIV28SUPER] NYTimes: A Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes as a Path to Tobacco, or From It
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Some public health experts see e-cigarettes as a gateway to tobacco use, while others think they could help eradicate conventional cigarettes.
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[DIV28SUPER] Fwd: mentoring program Call for Applications
Hello Division 28 members,
Please note this professional development activity (AND TRAVEL AWARD) for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows attending the upcoming 2014 APA convention. As per the instructions in the announcement, "To apply for the award, submit a statement of your research interests, a CV, and a copy of a recent paper (published or in press) by March 15, 2014, to Sangeeta Panicker, PhD, Director, Research Ethics Office, Science Directorate. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by mid-April, 2014."
Sincerely,
Rich Allen
Division 28 Program Chair
APA 2014
Mentorship program for graduate students and post-docs at 2014 APA ConventionApplication deadline is March 15, 2014
A mentoring and networking opportunity is being offered at the 2014 Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA) for promising new scientists in the fields of behavioral neuroscience, comparative psychology, experimental psychology, and psychopharmacology. The program is sponsored by APA Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology), 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience & Comparative Psychology), and 28 (Psychopharmacology), and the APA Committee on Animal Research and Ethics (CARE).Both advanced graduate students and scientists in post-doctoral training are eligible to apply; they may conduct research with either humans or non-human animals. APA membership is not required. Up to fourteen applicants will be selected to receive a travel award to attend the APA Convention in Washington, DC (August 7-10, 2014), where they will participate in professional development activities designed to help them: develop meaningful contacts with one another, senior scientists in their fields, and funding agency officials; navigate the increasingly diverse professional settings that they will encounter in their research careers; and identify with APA as a professional home.This program also aims to make the research community more inclusive; toward this end, applications from scientists from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged.The travel award of up to $1,000 is provided to defray each awardee's travel, accommodations, and registration costs. Attendance at all program activities, including participating in workshops and making a brief research poster presentation, is expected as a condition of the award.To apply for the award, submit a statement of your research interests, a CV, and a copy of a recent paper (published or in press) by March 15, 2014, to Sangeeta Panicker, PhD, Director, Research Ethics Office, Science Directorate. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by mid-April, 2014.
2014-02-20
Re: [DIV28SUPER] Important: Request for Information from NIH on Science of Behavior Change
Apologies, I included the wrong link for the videocast presentation. The correct link is included below. Thanks!
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Subject: Important: Request for Information from NIH on Science of Behavior Change
Please weigh in on next steps in the NIH Common Fund’s Science of Behavior Change initiative by March 6:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-14-007.html
Please comment on the value and significance of the following approaches for overcoming barriers to the development of a unified science of behavior change, and potential strategies for their achievement. In your remarks, wherever possible, please provide input on the use of mechanisms of behavior change as targets to be identified, engaged, and validated in intervention designs. Where applicable, your input may include but is not limited to research evidence in the form of data or references to support your statements.
A. Redefining NIH’s Translational Approach to Behavior Change Research by Targeting Basic Mechanisms of Behavior Change. The SOBC Program proposes to reshape NIH’s approach to the design of and investment in behavior change interventions by establishing the expectation that clinical trials incorporate mechanistic hypotheses and rigorous methods to test them. A unified approach to behavior change research could be adopted across the NIH, such that research projects related to behavior change would be expected to lead to an understanding of how change occurs (i.e., mechanisms of behavior change). A greater emphasis could be placed on the translation of basic behavioral and social science findings into behavior change interventions, and intervention studies could be expected to incorporate studies of mechanisms, in addition to testing for efficacy and/or effectiveness. Encouraging a mechanistic approach to clinical trials could enhance the value of each trial beyond its specific disease, population, or setting, and potentially produce data useful across fields.
B. Improving Understanding of the Underlying Principles of Behavior Change that Can Serve as Targets for Intervention. Understanding the principles of behavior change requires clear definitions and measures of key constructs and intervention targets. The SOBC Program proposes to support research that identifies, defines, and measures constructs essential for mechanistic studies of behavior change. Some constructs have been identified as important in behavior change across multiple health fields (e.g., motivation, decision-making, family communication, health literacy, built environments), but measures often vary across research laboratories, scientific disciplines, and health conditions. Refining the core components of these constructs, mapping similar components across fields, and developing rigorous measures of those components could accelerate progress in behavior change research. In addition, it may be useful to map similar mechanisms across multiple levels (e.g., genetic, neurobiological, social, cognitive, affective and environmental), so that behavior change can be captured and verified in multiple ways.
This initiative was the subject of a good recent discussion in the NIH Council of Councils meeting. That council provides the second level of peer review for NIH Common Fund initiatives. Dr. Richard Hodes, Director of the National Institute on Aging, gave an overview, and psychologist Elizabeth Phelps of NYU, who currently has funding under the initiative, gave a presentation about her research. A videocast of the entire Council of Councils meeting is available at http://videocast.nih.gov/summary.asp?Live=13618&bhcp=1. The presentation on SOBC begins at 3:16. Dr. Phelps' portion of the presentation begins at about 3:35.
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[DIV28SUPER] Important: Request for Information from NIH on Science of Behavior Change
Please weigh in on next steps in the NIH Common Fund’s Science of Behavior Change initiative by March 6:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-RM-14-007.html
Please comment on the value and significance of the following approaches for overcoming barriers to the development of a unified science of behavior change, and potential strategies for their achievement. In your remarks, wherever possible, please provide input on the use of mechanisms of behavior change as targets to be identified, engaged, and validated in intervention designs. Where applicable, your input may include but is not limited to research evidence in the form of data or references to support your statements.
A. Redefining NIH’s Translational Approach to Behavior Change Research by Targeting Basic Mechanisms of Behavior Change. The SOBC Program proposes to reshape NIH’s approach to the design of and investment in behavior change interventions by establishing the expectation that clinical trials incorporate mechanistic hypotheses and rigorous methods to test them. A unified approach to behavior change research could be adopted across the NIH, such that research projects related to behavior change would be expected to lead to an understanding of how change occurs (i.e., mechanisms of behavior change). A greater emphasis could be placed on the translation of basic behavioral and social science findings into behavior change interventions, and intervention studies could be expected to incorporate studies of mechanisms, in addition to testing for efficacy and/or effectiveness. Encouraging a mechanistic approach to clinical trials could enhance the value of each trial beyond its specific disease, population, or setting, and potentially produce data useful across fields.
B. Improving Understanding of the Underlying Principles of Behavior Change that Can Serve as Targets for Intervention. Understanding the principles of behavior change requires clear definitions and measures of key constructs and intervention targets. The SOBC Program proposes to support research that identifies, defines, and measures constructs essential for mechanistic studies of behavior change. Some constructs have been identified as important in behavior change across multiple health fields (e.g., motivation, decision-making, family communication, health literacy, built environments), but measures often vary across research laboratories, scientific disciplines, and health conditions. Refining the core components of these constructs, mapping similar components across fields, and developing rigorous measures of those components could accelerate progress in behavior change research. In addition, it may be useful to map similar mechanisms across multiple levels (e.g., genetic, neurobiological, social, cognitive, affective and environmental), so that behavior change can be captured and verified in multiple ways.
This initiative was the subject of a good recent discussion in the NIH Council of Councils meeting. That council provides the second level of peer review for NIH Common Fund initiatives. Dr. Richard Hodes, Director of the National Institute on Aging, gave an overview, and psychologist Elizabeth Phelps of NYU, who currently has funding under the initiative, gave a presentation about her research. A videocast of the entire Council of Councils meeting is available at https://commonfund.nih.gov/behaviorchange/index. The presentation on SOBC begins at 3:16. Dr. Phelps' portion of the presentation begins at about 3:35.
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