EXERCISE & SPORT PSYCHOLOGY NEWSLETTER APA Division 47 Volume 17 Issue 1 Spring 2003 Celebrating Our 17th Year Strengthening Resilience begin the dance that may shared experiences and race availability for crisis result in the development thoughts, especially intervention—activities of a Disaster Response about the burdens of of which I’m usually very Network here—the the world’s women. At proud—I was feeling first in Canada. Listening the luncheon, the guest like quite small potatoes. and learning, we could speaker was Retired Lt. What’s the big deal about glimpse the meaning of General Romeo Dallaire. sport psychology, I was the Canadian Red Cross (I assume that his name, wondering. Why am I not President's Column slogan, “Anywhere. like that of Ambassador actively out there, really Anytime.” War, needy Lewis, may be unfamiliar helping people in need? “What’s the big Kate F. Hays, Ph.D., C. Psych refugees, people burned to you. If you ever have At which point (truly—I out in a house fire— the opportunity to be in am not making any of deal about sport write to you at a disasters large and small. their presence, do so. And this up), I called my office I time when the world That night, I read in you might: As I write, it for messages. One was psychology, I was seems on the brink of the newspaper of floods appears that one or both from a nationally ranked war. A time of heightened in frigid weather and a may honor us with their trampolinist with whom wondering. Why alertness. A time, as well, nightclub fire with deaths, presence this summer, I’d recently worked. An of heightened helplessness. injuries, horrors; I heard at the APA Convention international team was am I not actively This is also the time of about a man who’d in Toronto.) Mr. Dallaire visiting her gym, and one year when the Ontario methodically killed his five gave vivid detail to his of their members had out there, really Psychological Association year old daughter so that experiences attempting been severely injured (OPA) meets in Toronto, her mother wouldn’t take peace-keeping in Rwanda the prior day. Team helping people my current home. And her from him; I talked at on behalf of the U.N.— members from both although organizations length with my best friend, and to its consequences countries witnessed the in need?” often have a theme whose mother had just for the soldiers so charged, accident. Might I come talk for their meetings, and died, and former partner is including the PTSD that he with some of the teams’ OPA’s was Strengthening dying of virulent cancer. is still actively experiencing members? I dropped Resilience in our And the next morning and working through. my evening plans, and Communities, usually at the Convention, the By that afternoon, spent three hours talking these themes seem moot, keynote speaker was when I was sharing and listening—mostly or at least muted. Stephen Lewis, the information about the listening—as nine people This year was different. U.N.’s Special Envoy Psyching Team at the attempted to come to A pre-Convention for HIV/AIDS in Africa. Canadian International terms with tragedy, with workshop was offered His presentation was Marathon—our pre-race fear, with utterly changed by the Red Cross, as that breathtaking: eloquent, mental skills preparation circumstances, in the organization and OPA vividly detailed, passionate, of the athletes, post- sport that gives their lives at times funny, as he meaning. Hold the 18 Door Day 4 Still Running After 21 All These Years Book 6 Our New APA Division 47 Website Address is: Review http//www.apa47.org Dan Landers ...continued from page 1 I have written in this Chris Janelle, at the I am proud plan in place. Supervision ensures that column before about University of Florida. As of who we our athlete-clients are cared for. It helps figure and ground. And you can see, both here are as sport sport psychology trainees to develop that evening, I drew and at our website, our and exercise as competent and ethical practitioners. for these athletes the committees continue psychologists. It also facilitates career long growth classic vase/profile so to gather strength We make a and development of practitioners. familiar to us from Psych and resilience. We difference Supervision is good for all of us. 101. The both/and of hope that we are, as in youth I know that face-to-face individual life. How do we make well, strengthening President-Elect’s sport, health, supervision is not feasible given sense of the senseless? communication with Column performance the demands of time and place at How do we live our our membership. The Judy L. Van Raalte, Ph.D. excellence, and convention. We can, however, connect lives acknowledging Education Committee, as more. People are interested in what via the Internet, and have telephone evil, horror, loss, grief, we’ve indicated, begins to we do. On the other hand, let’s face it. conversations. Workshop novices who and pain as well as joy, look at implementation We’re not curing cancer. Although some would like to pair up with more skilled pleasure, satisfaction, strategies; Practice is of us help people deal with disease more presenters to serve as assistants and exuberance, and host to the cutting edge effectively, most of us are NARDs. You observers are welcome to participate. capability? How do we applications of positive know, NARD as in Not a Real Doctor. We need time to plan programming, strengthen resilience? psychology; Science Real doctors help people get better and supervision, and logistics. Please And for myself—and continues to explore change the world in important ways, contact me as soon as possible if for us involved in exercise labs, review most of the time for the better. What do you want to find out more about sport and exercise dissertation submissions we contribute? participating. psychology—how do for award, and focus I asked a cabbie about us NARDS For those with an interest in some we create that balance on health and exercise when I was attending a recent APA other kinds of service, we have made for ourselves? What is psychology; Public convention. “What is it like to have arrangements with community agencies the work that we do? Interest is developing thousands of psychologists running in Toronto to volunteer our time How do we help make our first position around your city?” “Mostly they’re cheap while we are at Convention. There the world a better place paper, on Title IX; and tippers,” he replied. I had hoped for a are a number of places within walking for any of us and all Membership works on much more positive answer. distance of the Convention Center of us? Divisional recruitment (e.g., soup kitchens, homeless shelters) and retention. These are This column is not about asking you that could use a hand for a couple of This is an historic exciting times, and we to give bigger tips at the convention; hours. If you are interested in finding moment for Division invite your involvement, it’s about making a difference where out more details, please contact me. 47: following passage through contact with the and when we can— in our work as a We will plan to meet at the Convention by the Council of relevant committee chair Division, in Toronto, and at home. As a Center at the Division Services booth Representatives, APA or me. division, we have a great program with and then head out together. A couple now recognizes a a record number of submissions put of hours of your time can be a big gift of Proficiency in Sport Well, it had to happen together. Come to the convention to relief to people who do this important Psychology. sometime: this is my final learn, present, and share ideas. We are and exhausting work on a daily basis. This is a huge step, but column in ESPNews. For planning a series of sport and exercise it is only a step along the past 12 years (with psychology workshops for athletes, At the midwinter meeting of the the path. Our Education one year off for “good teams, and coaches in the greater Executive Committee in Florida this Committee is now behavior”), in one role Toronto area this summer. If you are January, we made significant progress in tasked with developing or another, I’ve been interested in helping us to “give back” a number of other areas. Chris Janelle mechanisms for moving writing you news and to the community and to “give sport finalized the convention program. the Proficiency forward, commentary on this psychology away,” please contact me The proficiency in sport and exercise through guideline Division. It’s truly been at [email protected] as soon as psychology has moved through the development and an unmitigated pleasure. possible. We will be finalizing plans in the APA bureaucracy. Jack Lesyk and ultimately, we hope, an Please continue to be spring. Students are welcome to help his committee have implemented exam in contact with me, out. Attend the conference, help others, an innovative and hard -hitting @ The_Performing_ and add a line to your resume. It should membership drive. We are even Elsewhere in this issue [email protected]. be a great plan. addressing the little things, changing the of ESPNews, you can Continue to support At home, I think we need to pay website address for our division from read details of the and be involved in attention not only to our own practice, http://www.psyc.unt.edu/apadiv47 to Division’s Executive your Division.