IINTERNATIONALNTERNATIONAL PPSYCHOLOGYSYCHOLOGY BBULLETINULLETIN Volume 14 No. 2 Spring 2010 Editor Grant Rich Associate Editors Harold Takooshian Richard Velayo Official Bulletin of the Division of International Psychology [Division 52 of the American Psychological Association] http://www.internationalpsychology.net Inside This issue Message from the President Presidential Column (Danny Wedding) 4 Division 52 News and Updates Mid-Winter Board Meeting Minutes (Neal S. Rubin) 5 Discovering Division 52 at the Eastern Psychological Association: An International Student Report 9 (Giulia Landi and Rivka Bertisch Meir) Division of International Psychology Nominees for Elected Offices 10 Photos of Division 52 Events at the Eastern Psychological Association 13 APA Division 52: International Mentoring Award 15 Research Article Checklist for International Students Entering U.S. Graduate Psychology Programs (Giulia Landi and 17 Harold Takooshian) Book Review A Global Perspective on the Counseling Profession (Uwe P. Gielen) 21 Submission Guidelines for Research Articles International Psychology Bulletin Research article submissions: The IPB publishes peer-reviewed research articles that deal with issues related to international psychology. The review process takes approximately two months. The manuscripts can be up to 1500 words and should be submitted to Dr. Grant J. Rich at [email protected]. The manuscript must be written in APA style described in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Specifically, please pay attention to the following: Use Times New Roman font if possible. Please do not use electronic style sheets, forced section breaks, or automatic footnotes. On the first page of the manuscript, include the title of the manuscript and names and affiliation of the authors. On this page, you should also indicate the contact person, their e-mail, and phone number. Please make sure that authors‘ names or any identifying information is not included in the manuscript, with the exception of the title page. Avoid figures if possible. Cite your sources within the manuscript based on the APA style. List your references at the end of the paper based on the APA style. Present tables at the end of the manuscript, after references, each on a separate page. To learn more about the APA style, refer to http://apastyle.apa.org. If you do not have access to the APA publication manual, you may want to get a recent journal article published by one of the APA journals and try to familiarize yourself with the APA style through this method. International Psychology Bulletin (Volume 14, No. 2) Spring 2010 Page 2 Inside This issue Current Issues Around the Globe, Announcements, and More A Psychology of Liberation: Confronting External and Internal Constraints to Become Heroic (Philip G. 22 Zimbardo) Honoring Their Legacy: United Nations‘ Loss of Life in the Haiti Earthquake (Neal S. Rubin) 27 Haiti Pre and Post Earthquake: Tracing a Professional and Personal Commitment Past, Present and Future 29 (Judy Kuriansky) Student Reflections on the Third Annual Psychology Day at the United Nations (Samar Harfi and Jenna 37 M. Stowell) International Awards 39 Remembering Henry P. David (Donald K. Freedheim) 40 In Memoriam: Robert W. Wesner (Florence L. Denmark) 40 International Employment Opportunities International Employment Opportunities (Michael J. Stevens) 41 Board Members Officers / Committee Chairs 46 SUBMISSION DEADLINES International Psychology Bulletin For smaller articles (op-ed, comments, suggestions, etc.), submit up to 200 words. Longer articles (e.g., Division reports) can be up to 1,500 words and should be submitted to Dr. Grant J. Rich at [email protected]. Submission Deadlines: Spring issue March 31st Summer issue June 30th Fall issue September 15th Winter issue December 15th International Psychology Bulletin (Volume 14, No. 2) Spring 2010 Page 3 Message From The President Several Division members have recently published Presidential Column books with international themes, including Rivka Meir, Wade Pickren, Uwe Gielen, Judy Kuriansky and Danny Wedding. Your Board is concerned about a bill being debated in Danny Wedding, Ph.D., MPH Uganda that would broaden the criminalization of homosexu- President, Division 52 ality and require the death penalty for anyone convicted of repeated homosexual acts, who is HIV-positive or who en- Division 52 held its mid- gages in same sex acts with minors. Division 52 has joined winter Board meeting in Brook- the American Psychological Association and numerous other lyn, New York March 6-7 in associations and organizations in formally protesting this conjunction with the annual egregious policy. Eastern Psychological Associa- The Division is especially excited about the development tion (EPA) convention. This of a new journal for the Division: International Perspectives venue allowed numerous Divi- in Psychology: Research, Practice, & Consultation. The sion members to present papers initial journal mission statement follows: ―International Per- on international topics at the spectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, & Consultation EPA meeting. The Division is committed to publishing conceptual models, methodolo- has adopted an informal policy gies, and research findings to help study and understand hu- of holding board meetings in man behavior and experiences around the globe from a psy- conjunction with EPA every other year; alternate year meet- chological perspective. It publishes intervention strategies ings will be held during other regional conventions (in addi- that use psychological science to improve the lives of people tion to the annual meeting held each year at the APA conven- around the world. The journal promotes the use of psycho- tion). We have tentatively made plans to hold the 2011 mid- logical science that is contextually informed, culturally inclu- winter meeting during the Southeastern Psychological Asso- sive, and dedicated to serving the public interest. The world‘s ciation convention in Jacksonville, Florida. problems are imbedded in economic, environmental, political, Janet Sigal and Senel Poyrazli are busy planning Divi- and social contexts. International Perspectives in Psychology sion 52 activities for the upcoming American Psychological incorporates empirical findings from education, medicine, Association convention August 12 – 15, 2010 in San Diego. political science, public health, psychology, sociology, gender This is a huge job, and I very much appreciate their good and ethnic studies, and related disciplines. The journal ad- work. We have received 19 symposia proposals, and 14 of dresses international and global issues, including inter-group these have been accepted. I‘ll look forward to seeing many of relations, disaster response, societal and national develop- you in San Diego, and I hope you‘ll participate actively in ment, environmental conservation, emigration and immigra- Division activities at the convention. tion, education, social and workplace environments, policy One of the most important products associated with the and decision making, leadership, health care, and the experi- Division of International Psychology is the International ences and needs of disadvantaged groups.‖ We‘ll have more Psychology Bulletin. Senel Poyrazli has done an admiral job information about the new journal in future issues of the In- with the Bulletin during the five years she served as editor, ternational Psychology Bulletin. and a deeply grateful Division presented Senel with a medal Let me close my first Presidential column with a per- commemorating her service at the Division 52 Board dinner. sonal note. In August of this year I will begin a new job as Senel is being replaced as editor by Grant Rich, PhD, a psy- the Associate Dean for Management and International Pro- chologist who trained at the University of Chicago and who is grams at the California School of Professional Psychology at currently teaching at the University of Alaska Southeast— Alliant International University. I‘ll be based at the San Fran- Juneau. We are very grateful that Grant has been able and cisco campus in North Beach, and I‘ll have oversight respon- willing to take on this new responsibility. The search commit- sibility for four international programs: Hong Kong, Singa- tee that recruited Grant was made up of Senel Poyrazli, Har- pore, Tokyo and Mexico City. I‘m excited about this new old Takooshian, and Richard Velayo. Articles and informa- opportunity, and I‘m confident my experience with the APA tion for the International Psychology Bulletin should be sub- Division of International Psychology was one of the reasons I mitted to Dr. Rich at [email protected]. (Congratulations was selected for this position. on your inaugural issue, Grant!) Feel free to write to me if you have questions about the The Division reviewed and approved a comment drafted division or if I can be helpful in any way. The best address is by Gloria Grenwald on the importance of internationalizing [email protected]; after August 23, I can be reached the undergraduate curriculum that will be submitted as a pos- at [email protected]. sible change to the proposed Principles for Quality Under- graduate Education in Psychology. The Division‘s Curricu- Danny Wedding, Ph.D., MPH lum and Training Committee continues to explore the possi- University of Missouri-Columbia bility of developing an undergraduate introductory psychol- Saint Louis, MO, USA ogy textbook with an international orientation. International