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CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR APPIC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
RICHARD J. COWEN, Ph.D.
Dr. Cowen received his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh (1977) , and subsequently pursued a 2-year child clinical fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine . He has been a staff psychologist since 1980 at Franciscan Children 's Hospital (formerly, Kennedy Memorial Hospital for Children), a pediatric hospital in Boston, MA serving primarily Inner-city and disenfranchised populations. He has directed the APA-approve d predoctoral training program there since 1989; he also presently directs the continuing education sponsor program in psychology, and manages a hospital-based multidisciplinary evaluation program for children and adolescents. Dr. Cowen's particular areas of interest and expertise include the establishment and coordinationof community outreach endeavors (e.g. , mental health and school-based clinics) and- working with developmentally-delayed populations . He is a current member of APA's Committee for the Approval of Continuing Education Sponsors (CASES), and is also an APA Site Visitor. He is a Fellow in the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and holds memberships in Divisions 12 (Section 1) and 37.
His interest in serving on APPIC's Board of Directors is based on a wish to enhance and improve : (1) the overall quality of training, (2) the type of professional produced by internship and postdoctoral. programs, (3) the level of multicultural training and opportunities for qualified minority candidates, and (4) lines of communication between APPIC and constituent training programs around training and policy issues . Dr. Cowen believes that, given the shifts in training priorities and expectations attributable to the changing health care climate, it is particularly important to be proactive in addressing psychology training 's future.
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CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR APPIC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
PEGGY J. CANTRELL, Ph.D.
I am honored to be a candidate for reelection to the to the APPIC Board of Directors. The past three years on the Board have been exciting, busy, challenging times. Some of my personal contributions to APPIC include holding the office of Vice Chair during the past year, co-editing four editions of the Directory, establishing the Doctoral Membership Review Committee and continuing as the Committee Board contact, revising the internal Policy and Procedures Manual, and being responsible for the enclosed proposal for the bylaws changes. I welcome the opportunity to continue my work with APPIC. Thank you for nominating me.
Since receiving my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maine in 1983, I have been active in training issues at both local and national levels. I am the Chief of Psychology at the Kansas City VA Medical Center. Prior to holding this position, I was the Director of Training for seven years. I hold faculty appointments in the University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, the University of Kansas Department of Counseling Psychology, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Counseling Psychology. My active involvement in training, teaching, research, clinical practice, and administration keeps me abreast of the issues facing training directors. Along with being active in Division 18 (Psychologists in Public Service) of APA, I am currently the President, past Secretary-Treasurer, and past Education and Training Committee Member of the National Organization of VA Psychologists (NOVA-Psi). I am also currently a member of the National VA Psychology Training Advisory Committee.
We, are certainly facing interesting and complex training issues. The major challenges of struggling with the imbalance between the number of internship slots and applicants, funded vs unfunded internships, developing postdoctoral training, and the continual need to improve current policies (e.g., selection and grievance procedures) are only a few of the issues that need our focused attention. APPIC has become a major force in the shaping of national psychology training policy in recent years, yet much work remains. The growing collegiality between the wide variety of organizations that represent training interests allows for the opportunity of growth and development in ways never before possible. What I offer as a candidate is my enthusiasm, creativity, energy, dedication to psychology, along with my personal experience of living with these issues as a past training director and now Chief of a service with an APA accredited internship program.
As we focus on national issues, we need to continue to be sensitive and responsive to the problems and issues that confront individual training directors in their efforts to maintain quality programs educating professional psychologists. If elected I pledge to remain sensitive and responsive to your needs and issues.
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CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR APPIC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
NADINE J. KASLOW, Ph.D., ABPP
I received my doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Houston and completed my predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship training at the University of Wisconsin -Department of Psychiatry in Madison. From 1984-l 990, I was on the faculty at Yale University School of Medicine, and was involved actively in training predoctoral interns and postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Psychiatry and at the Child Study Center. In 1990, I joined the faculty at Emory University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as an associate pr_ofessor and the Chief Psychologist at Grady Health System. A considerable amount of my professional life is devoted to predoctoral internship training, and I direct our growing postdoctoral fellowship training program. I have published a number of articles on a developmental perspective on supervision and internship and postdoctoral fellowship training, conducted many APA accreditation site visits for internship programs, and attended both the APPIC sponsored conference on postdoctoral training in Ann Arbor and the APA sponsored conference on postdoctoral training in Norman. Recently, I agreed to chair the APPIC Committee on Postdoctoral Training.
If elected to the Board,. I would be invested in directing some of APPIC's efforts to the provision of continuing education regarding internship and postdoctoral fellowship training to the staff and faculty of APPIC programs. Additionally, I would be interested in increasing the involvement of postdoctoral training within APPIC. Further, I would like to work with other Board members to help training sites use creative strategies to insure that there are sufficient numbers of quality internship positions in diverse settings with diverse populations for all well-trained and competent applicants. In the current health care and funding climate, I believe that APPIC has a central role to play in supporting quality training in psychology at both the predoctoral and postdoctoral level, and thus I would be honored to be a member of the APPIC Board at this time.
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CANDIDATE STATEMENT FOR APPIC
BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION
GERALD LEVENTHAL, Ph.D.
I am grateful to be nominated for the APPIC Board of Directors. I hold a faculty appointment in the New Jersey Medical School 's Department of Psychiatry located at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Newark campus, an inner city academic health center. I serve as Chief Psychologist and also as Director of Training (DOT) for one of our two APA-accredited internship programs.
As the National Member of APPIC's Doctoral Membership Committee, I participate in decision making about internship programs that seek to join APPIC. Many different kinds of programs apply, and the Committee 's members are also from different kinds of training sites. We come from university counseling centers, VA medical centers, community mental health agencies, etc. My work with the committee, and my services as an APA accreditation site visitor over the past six years, have educated me about the diversity of internship sites, their problems, and the interns they serve.
As DOT, I developed the Adult Psychology Internship Program which began with two students in 1985, and has since gained APA-accreditation and tripled in size. Interns receive training in our outpatient community mental health services and our hospital's inpatient psychiatric and medical services. As Chief Psychologist, I supervise the DOT of our Child & Adolescent Psychology internship program. My current goals include stabilizing the funding for postdoctoral training positions.
If elected, I will work energetically to expand APPIC programs in some
of the following ways. (1) Demand for internship training has increased.
APPIC can facilitate the growth of new sites and their readiness for accreditation.
(2) Funding cuts and demands for increased productivity threaten many training
programs. We must look for ways to help pay for training while carefully
assessing possible drawbacks of new types of funding. (3) Supervisors can
benefit from continuing education in supervision skills. APPIC can encourage
such training, especially for new supervisors.
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