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In This Issue • President’s Message • AMCAP Leadership • New Officers and Member Spotlights • Clinician’s Corner: Fall Convention 2007 Summaries - Tamera Smith Allred, M.A. - Douglas E. Brinley, Ph.D. - Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., E.C.N.S., relationship with clients. However, I also understand Q.E.E.G.-D., B.C.I.A.-E.E.G. the cumulative effect that living gospel principles - Lane Fischer, Ph.D. - Kaye Espenschied Smith, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. President’s can have on increasing counselor utilization. In - Marleen S. Williams, Ph.D. extending our gospel centered approach beyond Message clients to other professional relationships, we • Student Reflections become a better, more attractive resource. - Wesley Bertagnole, University of Wyoming - Tabitha Harper, Brigham Young University AMCAP President - Brent Melling, Brigham Young University The way we live the gospel permeates our being - Matthew Reiser, Brigham Young University Rebecca Jorgensen, Ph.D. and informs our choices of practices and procedures with clients and colleagues; we • New Mentoring Program heighten our ability to be empathetic and forgiving. • Spring Convention 2008 Information Dear AMCAP Members, Practicing gospel principles in the office should result in outcomes that are more Christ-centered • Call for Presentation Proposals Recently I've been corresponding with an AMCAP and family oriented. As our work shows the fruit of the gospel, Bishops will have more confidence in colleague who is attempting to improve the image • What’s Up in Your Area? of L.D.S. Mental Health Professionals in his area. our profession. Specifically, he hopes his local church leaders will • Convention CD Order Forms feel more confident in referring members to L.D.S. At the Spring 2006 Convention, President Thomas Mental Health Professionals. After one discussion, S. Monson gave us an Apostolic Blessing wherein • Advertisements he blessed us to have "kindness in [our] interactions when he mentioned that many Bishops he'd talked • BYU Position Announcement to were hesitant to refer out at all. I remembered with others . sympathy . [and] love." The Elder Morrison's 2005 Ensign article, "Mental gospel calls for something more than gut reactions. • BYU Conference Announcement Illness," which encouraged members to seek It calls us to live by higher laws. It teaches us to mental health assistance from professionals who judge righteously, to be forgiving, to live by and with • Membership Application Form follow "practices and procedures compatible with the spirit. I know we each face professional gospel principles." Originally when I read this difficulties and challenges that can be alleviated article, I related it to our capacity to benefit clients through kindness and understanding. through our mutual value system. Belief in change, growth, and hope makes our clinical application The theme of our upcoming Spring Convention is easier. "Healing, Hope and the Spirit of AMCAP." I hope to see you there as we all work to fill our professional As you know, part of our AMCAP mission is to meet cups with practices and procedures consistent with the call in D&C 81:5: "be faithful; stand in the office gospel principles. As we step closer to them, I am which I have appointed unto you; succor the weak, confident we will see more success in our work, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen both with clients, colleagues, and in community the feeble knees." In turn we're assured the relationships. What a wonderful blessing that the Spring Convention 2008 capacity to "do the greatest good unto [our] fellow peace and hope we feel can influence and impact April 3-4, 2008* beings, and . promote the glory of him who is those we work with. Joseph Smith Memorial Building [our] Lord" (D&C 81:4). 15 E. South Temple, SLC, Utah Naturally, this scripture and Elder Morrison's *Pre-Convention April 2, 2008 counsel relate most obviously to our working Rebecca Jorgensen, Ph.D. Location determined by session attending. AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 1 AMCAP Leadership EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dianne Nielsen, Ph.D. Michael Gardner, M.S.W. Continuing Education LDS Family Services Representative Rebecca Pack Jorgensen, Ph.D. W: 801-422-3035 H: 801-224-4287 H: 801-295-4022 W: 801-422-3692 AMCAP President [email protected] [email protected] Spring 2007 – Fall 2009 W: 619-964-6433 GeriLynn Vorkink, Doctoral Student John Livingstone, Ed.D. [email protected] Student Representative Convention AV Committee Chair W/H: 801-235-9911 H: 801-224-9908 W: 801-422-3692 Shane Adamson, L.C.S.W. [email protected] [email protected] Vice President Jan Scharman, Ph.D. Membership and Area Coordinator ASSISTANTS TO THE BOARD General Authority Representative Spring 2007 – Fall 2009 H: 801-277-4021 W: 801-378-2387 H: 801-996-8397 W: 801-747-2300 Kristin Douglas, M.A., L.P.C., B.C.I.A.C. [email protected] [email protected] AMCAP Networker – Editor Spring 2008 Convention Co-Chair Rebecca Gray Kristine Plummer, L.C.S.W. Fall 2008 Convention Chair Convention Consultant Treasurer W: 307-778-1311 H: 307-638-2129 H: 801-295-5566 W: 801-295-8765 H: 801-582-8311 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Barbara Gearig, L.C.S.W., C.T.L.C., P.C Volunteers and Elections W: 801-280-2571 H: 801-280-2681 AREA COORDINATOR EXECUTIVE SECRETARY [email protected] SUPERVISORS B.J. Fullmer John Rector, Ph.D. George Paulsen, M.Ed. Executive Secretary AMCAP Journal – Associate Editor Area Coordinator Assistant H: 801-583-4497 W: 801-583-6227 W: 208-496-1100 H: 208-359-0609 Supervisor– Western U.S., Pacific & FAX: 801-583-1305 [email protected] Asia [email protected] H: 801-250-2823 COMMITTEE CHAIRS POSITIONS OPEN BOARD MEMBERS Carrie Wrigley, L.C.S.W. Website AMCAP Board Member – One year A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D. W: 801-566-2556 H: 801-572-1125 assignment Spring 2008 Convention Chair [email protected] Bookstore Convention Committee Chair H: 801-756-9189 W: 801-240-3386 [email protected] REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BOARD Area Coordinator Assistant Supervisor Eastern United States LoriLee Critchfield, Ph.D., D.A. Dean R. Bender, C.P.A., M.A., M.F.T.I. British Isles Fund Raising Financial Consultant Europe H : 208-736-7178 W: 208-736-7178 C: 916-300-4543 [email protected] [email protected] WHAT IS THE NETWORKER? Robert L. Gleave, Ph.D. Jonathan Chamberlain, Ph.D. Publications Assistant Historian The AMCAP Networker is an official publication of By-Laws H: 801-225-2598 the Association of Mormon Counselors and [email protected] Psychotherapists. It is published at least twice/year. Fall 2008 Convention Co-Chair Subscriptions are free to AMCAP members. W: 801-422-3035 H: 801-224-7464 [email protected] Rachel E. Crook Lyon, Ph.D. Note that opinions expressed in the Networker do not AMCAP Journal – Editor necessarily reflect the view of AMCAP members, officers, AMCAP Networker editorial staff, or officers H : 801-407-6414 W: 801-422-4375 Kristin Lang Hansen, Ph.D. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [email protected] Fall 2007 Convention Chair Submissions are welcome. Send all submissions via H : 617-365-1013 W: 617-365-1013 Vera Ivie email to Kristin Douglas, Editor. Please include author contact information. [email protected] Convention Photographer H: 801-476-1959 Kristin Douglas, M.A., L.P.C., B.C.I.A.C. Edward Martinelli, Ph.D. Laramie County Community College By-Laws Burton C. Kelly, Ph.D. 1400 East College Drive W: 801-863-8643 H: 801-785-1057 Historian Cheyenne, WY 82007-3299 [email protected] W: 307- 778-1311 H: 307-638-2129 H: 801-225-2046 [email protected] AMCAP ŏ Winter 2008 ŏ 2 New AMCAP Board Members LoriLee Critchfield, Ph.D., D.A., has two doctoral degrees, one in Political Science from Idaho State University and one in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in political science, public administration and sociology as adjunct faculty for Idaho State University and the College of Southern Idaho. LoriLee is a licensed psychologist and maintains a private psychology practice in Twin Falls and Burley, Idaho, where she works with children, adults, and couples. LoriLee Critchfield, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist She teaches criminal justice and clinical psychology for Kennedy-Western University and Boise State University. She also does forensic work for local law enforcement and continues to write and publish. Dianne L. Nielsen, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in the Counseling and Career Center at Brigham Young University. She received her Ph.D. from Brigham Young University in 2001. Dianne has specialty interests in biofeedback and in neuropsychology. She is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (A.B.C.T.), has received specialized training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy from Marsha Linehan, and specialized training in Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy from Albert Ellis. Dianne L. Nielsen, Ph.D. In her personal life, Dianne likes to read books (“Middlemarch” is this year’s Clinical Psychologist favorite), and run marathons (11 so far). She is the mother of four sons, and the proud owner of two border collies. GeriLynn Vorkink earned her B.S. in Psychology from Brigham Young University and is currently a 3rd-year graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Brigham Young University. She has been serving as Assistant to the Editor of the AMCAP journal, Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy, for the past 1 ½ years. GeriLynn is the new student AMCAP board representative. GeriLynn is originally from Southern California and spends her summers there GeriLynn Vorkink, B.S.