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VOL 60 Issue 3 FALL 2007 A Publication of the Society of Clinical Psychology (Division 12, American Psychological Association) CONTENTS SPECIAL INSIDE: 2007 Call for Nominations (see page 14) 01 President’s Column 05 Internet Update: Mailing List Pet Peeves 08 Early Career: PRESIDENT’S COLUMN (Super) Vision Quest 09 Diversity: The Effects of From the Academy to the Community: Domestic Violence on Disseminating Evidence-Based Treatments. Children of Color (Part II) Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP 11 History: The Division of Clinical Psychology, 1985-95 A colleague of mine received her NIMH review on a grant pro- 12 Student Column: posal she submitted. The focus of the proposal was to develop Interdisciplinary Research programs for disseminating evidence-based treatments for anxiety Institutes Free your Time disorders. One of the critiques suggested that the study is unimportant and your Mind! 14 Federal Advocacy Column: Marsha M. Linehan, because disseminating evidence-based treatments is useless: therapists Political Outreach Ph.D., ABPP will not use them. I was, as readers of my previous columns might sur- 14 2007 Call for Nominations University of Washington mise, shocked. In helping my colleague craft a response I suggested she President, Society of 15 Psychopharm Update: point out that the same argument can be made about research aimed Addressing Troubling Clinical Psychology Issues in Child at developing effective treatments. Why bother? and Adolescent Reading the Sunday New York Times several weeks ago, I realized that difficulties dis- Psychopharmacology: seminating evidence-based treatments are not confined to the treatment of mental disorders. A Call for Ideas In a saga detailed in The New York Times, a woman with cancer was pronounced as having six 17 Book Recommendations months to live by her first oncologists and subsequent treatment recommendations depended 18 Section Updates 21 Abbreviated Minutes on who the oncologist was. Two recommended for chemotherapy and against surgery and one 24 Division 12: Officials List offered to operate. After surgery, her life expectancy improved considerably. Several cancer care specialists noted that the application of science-based care for cancer varies dramatically, a point EDITOR also made by the Institute of Medicine (1999). William C. Sanderson, PhD Suffice it to say that across the entire health care field, translating evidence-based treat- Professor of Psychology ments into community-based treatments is a daunting task. It is estimated that it takes 15 to Hofstra University Hempstead NY 11549 20 years to get empirically supported treatments from the research setting to general clinical [email protected] practice (Balas & Boren, 2000, as cited in the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, DIVISION 12 OFFICERS 2003). Do we even care? This latter question is where the battle lines in our field appear to be drawn. Clinical researchers have been distressed for years about the low use of highly effective President Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP treatments for various disorders. The antagonism between the academic researchers and the President-elect applied practioners, the town-gown conflict, has been written about in many places. Certainly Irving B. Weiner, PhD, ABPP anyone who attends academic meetings has heard the researchers complaining about the per- Past President ceived unwillingness of practioners to learn and apply new, empirically-supported treatments. Gerald C. Davison, PhD Practioners complain about the perceived irrelevance of academic research to the needs of the Secretary (2005-2007) Linda K. Knauss, PhD, ABPP front-line clinician. From the view of researchers, practioners are unwilling. From the view of Treasurer (2006-2008) the practioners, researchers are arrogant. A prominent community psychiatrists once told me Robert K. Klepac, PhD that I have no idea how much community providers hate researchers. Researchers have been TCP Website www.apa.org/divisions/div12/ known to attack providers as incompetent, unethical, ignorant and worse. (continued on page 2) clinpsychjourn.html ISSN 0009-9244 Copyright 2007 by the Society of Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association President’s Column (cont.) Lest we think those of us in the mental health care Two issues arise in these town-gown debates. First, field are unusual, these very same issues are repeatedly dis- how do we improve the output of the treatment research cussed across the health care field (e.g., Doran et al., 2007 enterprise? There has been an enormous amount of work in nursing and Perria et al., 2007, in medicine to cite just a addressing this issue across the health care field. New par- few recent dissemination research efforts.) Business journals ticipatory action research (PAR) models combine systematic are replete with research on dissemination of business best inquiry, participation, and action to address a wide variety practices into the larger business community. We psycholo- of health problems. PAR activities focus on understanding gists are definitely not alone. and solving health care problems viewed as important by DIVISION 12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS (Executive Committee) Representative (1/05-12/07) Annette M. Brodsky, Ph.D. President (2007) Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP Representative (1/06-12/08) Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP President-elect (2008) Irving B. Weiner, Ph.D., ABPP Past President (2006) Gerald C. Davison, Ph.D. EDITORS (Members of the Board without vote) Secretary (2005-2007) Linda K. Knauss, Ph.D., ABPP The Clinical Psychologist: Treasurer (2006-2008) Robert K. Klepac, Ph.D. (2006-10) William C. Sanderson, Ph.D. COUNCIL OF REPRESENTATIVES Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice: Representative (1/04-12/06) Charles D. Spielberger, Ph.D., (2004-08) Phillip Kendall, Ph.D. ABPP ABPP, ABAP Web Site: Representative (1/05-12/07) Barry A. Hong, Ph.D., ABPP (2006) Gerald S. Leventhal, Ph.D. SECTION REPRESENTATIVES TO THE DIVISION 12 BOARD Section 2: Clinical Geropsychology Section 7: Emergencies and Crises (07-09) Deborah A. King, Ph.D. (07-09) Marc Hillbrand, Ph.D. Section 3: Society for a Science of Clinical Psych. Section 8: Assoc. of Psychologists in Academic Health Centers (06-08) E. David Klonsky, Ph.D. (07-09) Ronald T. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP Section 4: Clinical Psychology of Women Section 9: Assessment Psychology (05-07) Gloria Behar Gottesgen, Ph.D. (08-10) Norman Abeles, Ph.D., ABPP Section 6: Clinical Psychology of Ethnic Minorities Section 10: Graduate Students and Early Career Psychologists (07-09) A. Toy Caldwell Colbert, Ph.D., ABPP (06-08) Del Stewart & Brian J. Hall EDITORIAL STAFF Editor: Internet Update: Simon Rego, PsyD, Montefiore Medical William C. Sanderson, Ph.D. Center/AECOM Professor of Psychology Diversity Column: Guerda Nicolas, Ph.D., Boston College Hofstra University Hempstead NY 11549 Student Column: George Slavich, Ph.D., University of California, Email: [email protected] San Francisco Section Updates: EDITORS FOR REGULARLY APPEARING COLUMNS II. Deborah King, Ph.D., University of Rochester Early Career Column: Katherine Muller, PsyD, Montefiore III. E. David Klonsky, Ph.D., Stony Brook University Medical Center/AECOM IV. --- VI. Anabel Bejarano, Ph.D., Independent Practice, San Diego CA Book Recommendations: Lata McGinn, Ph.D., Yeshiva University VII. Richard T. McKeon, Ph.D., Gaithersburg, MD Psychopharm Update: Timothy Bruce, Ph.D., University of Illinois VIII. Danny Wedding, Ph.D., Missouri Institute of Mental Health College of Medicine IX. Norman Abeles, Ph.D., Michigan State University Division 12 History Column: Donald Routh, Ph.D., University of Miami Graphic Design: www.jasoncrowtz.com 2 VOL 60 - No 3 - FALL 2007 President’s Column (cont.) the community and involves community participa- ness for change, resources, and climate can also be tion and ownership throughout the entire research critical in the successful implementation of new treat- project. The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical ments. Interventions aimed at addressing institutional Trials Network is a good example of this approach in norms and readiness are sorely needed. the field of mental health care (http://www.nida.nih. Effective and efficient methods of training gov/CTN/Index.htm). Efforts to develop nation-wide practioners in evidence-based training are also needed. research networks of individual practitioners is anoth- Motivation without competence is not sufficient. The er example. Continuing and expanding these efforts standard method of transferring evidence-based treat- is critical if we wish our evidence-based treatments ments for mental disorders to the clinical community to reach all those who need them. Although we may has been and still is brief clinical workshops, ordinarily be doing a good job at developing treatments for indi- lasting one half to two days. I searched the on-line cat- viduals who seek mental health care, our academic- alog for the 2007 American Psychological Association based treatment studies are unlikely to make the leap and found 30 clinical workshops lasting one day or to evidence-based treatments for individuals who do less. All professional organizations, however, offer not seek treatment, or at least will not seek treatment these workshops at annual meetings and licensing in academic settings, do not want the treatments we boards do not require more in depth training to satisfy are offering, or for many reasons do not profit from required continuing education credits. Although this the best