THIS ISSUE: American Indian Mascots Excercise & Sport ESPNews Psychology Newsletter Interview: Charlie Brown Celebrating our 19th Year! Dissertation Award Summary Volume 19 Issue 3 Fall 2005 www.apa47.org Giveaway-athon 2005 Get Involved and Going On-line Ray’s Race Results Penny McCullagh, Ph.D. • President Greetings to Division 47 members. The last few months have been rather tumultuous for many. Katrina and Rita wrecked havoc with many individual’s lives and my heart goes out to those affected and those who helped. Despite the devastation in New Orleans, APA has announced that the conference will still be held in New Orleans. If that changes they will let the membership know. So plan to join us next August. Meantime, you have until December 2, 2005 to submit your presentations on line at apa.org. APA has responded to its members devastated by the storms. Those individuals in zip codes designated by FEMA will have their 2006 dues including division dues automatically renewed as well as journal subscriptions renewed. For more details, check the APA web site. We can all help bring New Orleans back to life by attending the conference in 2006. Division attendance at this year’s conference seemed a little low. Despite an excellent program, many of our members attended the International Sport Psychology meeting in Sydney and just didn’t make it back in time to join us. Nonetheless, those who did attend enjoyed the sessions and the camaraderie. Division 47 has a busy agenda for the next year. I would like to thank all the committees for the work over the past year. It is now time to reconstitute the committees. I would like to see our five primary committees align with the Directorates within APA. APA has a great deal of power and influence and I believe that if our divisions align with the Presidential initiatives and the goals of the Directorates that we can become more visible and viable as a division. Our divisions are also responsible for selecting many of our awards, so serving on these committees can be quite satisfying. In the box on page 2 you will find brief descriptions of the committees and their respective Chairs. Our super duper Secretary Treasurer Diane Finley has done a great job of organizing Division 47 administrative tasks on a Blackboard site. All committee members will need to work within this online tool to complete their business. IF YOU WANT TO HELP THE DIVISION, CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND AGREE TO HELP. One of my initiatives as President of Division 47 is to develop online courses that address the Kinesiology (Sport Science) aspects of sport psychology (.e.g., motor learning, exercise physiology, sport psychology). My proposal is to develop two levels of online classes. The first level of courses would be designed for psychologists who want to learn more about sport psychology and receive CE units that will contribute to renewal of their state license. These courses would be relatively short. The second level of courses would build upon these first courses but would be university credit courses. They would be taught by top professionals in the field and would be designed to meet the standards required for certification by the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology. I have contacted potential instructors for these courses and Diane Finley has agreed to help with some of the logistics. One of the critical issues is getting the courses approved for CE credit. As such the Executive Committee agreed to put forth the necessary monetary resources so Division 47 could apply to APA to serve as an approved sponsor for such programs. Over the next few months I will be preparing that paperwork for submission. Initial response from psychologists at the APA Convention was promising. I look forward to your support of this initiative. I look forward to helping Division 47 move forward. Contact me anytime at [email protected]. Yes – my university changed its name. It is now California State University, East Bay. Congratulations, Reflections, Division 47 2004-2005 Advertising and Insertion Schedule ESPNews is the official newsletter Division 47 (Exercise and Sport Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. ESPNews is published three times a year – Spring Fall, and Summer – and has a circulation of over 1000 Inspirations, and Invitations professional and student-affiliate members. The membership of Division 47 is diverse, representing academics and practitioners from both psychology and Kirsten Peterson, Ph.D. • President-Elect exercise science. For each issue of the newsletter, Division 47 will accept advertising from Well, here it is, my journey as president-elect is well on its way, after individuals, professional organizations, and businesses. For further inquiries getting the news a few months ago that I’d been elected, then going about advertising or to place an advertisement with the division, please through the “who, me?” period when people I had never met were contact: congratulating me and wishing me well in my new role. This experience thus far has made me even more aware of the potential we have as a division of APA to make an impact far beyond the Robert J. Harmison, Ph.D. bounds normally ascribed to our smallish population. And wow, was it cool to even get a Editor, ESPNews congratulatory message from a person from the Philippines! Program Chair, Sport-Exercise Psychology Argosy University/Phoenix I attended the annual conference in Washington, DC and began my more formal education 2233 W. Dunlap Ave., Ste. 150 into the inner workings of APA as I attended meetings designed to bring us newly elected Phoenix, AZ 85021 division folks up to speed with the many opportunities and resources that APA has to offer. (602) 216-2600 As usual, I was revived professionally by the vast array of APA programming including [email protected] several wonderful sessions hosted by Division 47. I came away newly impressed by the energy and drive of our own executive board, thanks to the leadership of now outgoing- Rates for placement of an advertisement in one issue of the newsletter are: president Frank Webbe, and was inspired by the always energetic Penny McCullough, who has an ambitious agenda set for her tenure as president. Full Page (8.5 X 11 inches) $600 I have been reflecting on my journey thus far, and where this role will lead. As I noted in Half-Page (8.5 X 5.5 inches) $350 my position statement prior to being elected, my strengths as a sport psychologist are as a Quarter-Page (4.25 X 5.5 inches) $200 practitioner, and as such, it seems most prudent to allow those strengths to guide my agenda moving forward. As such, I am more determined than ever to maintain the initiatives set Payment for an advertisement is due at the time of ad submissions. Deadlines forth by my predecessors in terms of our sport psychology service giveaways, pushing the for advertisements are the same date as other newsletter submissions. That sport psychology proficiency process forward (a process sometimes likened to steering the date can be found at the end of each previous newsletter. Queen Mary, but we shall persevere!), and supporting Penny McCullough’s efforts to move forward with online sport psychology/sport science course availability. At the same time, there are exciting developments coming from APA that dovetail neatly with some of our division’s and field’s issues, which I am eager to pursue. APA President Gerald Division 47 Committees Koocher has proposed a “green and grey” initiative in support of his theme to help early career psychologists become more established. This initiative proposes, among other things, to link up individual early career psychologists (the “green” group) with a more seasoned Science Committee – Chair – Chris Janelle ([email protected]) mentor (someone from the group affectionately known as the “greys”). This mentoring Determines creative ways to increase the identification of sport concept seems to have great application for sport psychology, a small field where members psychology as a science. Recommends Dissertation Award recipient and are often left on their own – literally – come graduation time to make their way in the field. generates nominations for the Distinguished Contributions to Science and I hear often from colleagues who envy me for even having sport psychology colleagues on Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology. site with whom to consult and gain support. It strikes me that our field could help itself grow from within by establishing our own mentor-relationship program. Such a program could function to speed up the learning curve for and provide support to new sport psychology Public Interest Committee – Chair – Sam Maniar ([email protected]) professionals, and help to encourage our generations of professionals to intermingle in Helps resolve issues of strong interest to the public (e.g., sport violence) mutually beneficial ways. I welcome your thoughts on this issue. and generates position statements. Coordinates the Giveaway-athon at the Convention and generates nominations for the Distinguished I was also recently inspired by an interdivisional research proposal from one of our Contributions to Sport and Exercise Psychology in the Public Interest. members, Dr. Michael Sachs, to examine how developmental sport psychology programs at the university level could provide initiatives to enhance character development for our children and youth. There are many ways to exploit the potential of our field, as noted by Education Committee – Chair – Ed Etzel ([email protected]) Frank Webbe in his last presidential column, and what better mode of transmission of our Educates students, professionals, and the public on sport psychology division’s message of health and maximized potential than through our children? issues.