Letters from CAMPP – Text Only Version
Council of Applied Masters Programs in Psychology
Volume 9, Issue 3
Winter, 2000-01
CAMPP was formed in 1986 to foster the advancement of master’s training and education in applied psychology in all of its aspects, by disseminating information and formulating policies concerning master’s training and education, by representing applied master’s programs in appropriate forums, and by establishing and maintaining standards of training and education for master’s programs in applied psychology.
ANNUAL MEETING – CAMPP
The annual member meeting of CAMPP will be held at the COGDOP (Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology) conference in San Antonio, TX, Saturday, February 17, 2001, from 11:45 am to 1:30 pm. For the agenda, see the “Dissed by APA, Again” item below.
RESERVATIONS FOR the 50-50 LUNCH at CAMPP. Lunch at the meeting will be a wonderful Tex-Mex buffet, served at the conference hotel (Mansion Del Rio). Because CAMPP has to have an accurate count for the hotel one week before the luncheon, we are asking you to register in advance for the luncheon, by sending a check for $20 (roughly half the cost of lunch – CAMPP will cover the rest for members), payable to CAMPP, to: Bob Brubaker, CAMPP Treasurer, Department of Psychology, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY 40475. Feel free to email Bob ([email protected]) if you need to make special arrangements about payment, or if time is running short.
HOTEL INFORMATION
The CAMPP and COGDOP meetings will be held at the Mansion Del Rio in San Antonio, Texas, February 16-18. Telephone the hotel for reservations, at 1-800-292-7300, and mention that you are with COGDOP to get the conference rate.
MEETING AGENDA – DISSED BY APA, AGAIN
The agenda for the annual member meeting will focus on developing a strategic response to the recent APA Board of Directors’ decision to exclude CAMPP from the upcoming Educational Leadership Conference, sponsored by the Board of Educational Affairs. Come prepared to discuss this important issue and help formulate a response.
A Bit of Background. APA has decided to sponsor an annual Education Leadership Conference, dealing with issues of training and education in psychology. CAMPP was an early supporter of this idea. Now that planning has moved forward, it has become clear that the conference will explicitly include issues related to high school, baccalaureate, and doctoral training, and invite representatives from those levels of education. But the Board of Directors has decided to exclude CAMPP, and presumably issues specifically related to master’s training, from the conference, no doubt because of APA’s longstanding policy of recognizing the doctorate as the only acceptable entry-level credential for independent practice. All of us are psychologists, we’re all educators in M.A. programs, and many of us are also members of APA. But despite this, we’ve been dissed again. It wasn’t by the Practice Directorate this time, though – it was by the Education Directorate, and again by the Board of Directors.
JOIN CAMPP
This newsletter is being sent not only to those master’s programs that are members of CAMPP, but to a broad range of non-member programs as well. We want to let you know that we exist – if you didn’t know this already – and encourage you to consider joining. CAMPP is more than simply a “one issue” organization – although that one issue, fostering the advancement of master’s level training, including issues of practice and licensing, is central. Other important CAMPP issues involve the curriculum oversight and training standards, encouragement for master’s programs to pursue accreditation through MPAC (Masters in Psychology Accreditation Council), and continued lobbying for acknowledgement of the important role served by M.A. training programs in psychology. In its meetings during September, 2000, the Executive Committee of CAMPP began discussing another important issue, that of supervision standards and practices in M.A. training programs, and plans to begin a systematic study of this topic in the near future. Join CAMPP, the only national organization specifically devoted to issues of importance in applied master’s training in psychology.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Members and non-members alike, please feel free to contact any member of the Executive Committee for information about membership, with information about developments in your program or university relevant to M.A. training in psychology, or with information from your state or region that would be of interest to CAMPP and its member programs. Or visit the CAMPP website, for further information.
Website: http://alpha1.fmarion.edu/campporg/
Dr. Frank Yeatman, Chair
Avila College, Kansas City, KS [email protected]
Dr. Julie Lipovsky, Secretary
The Citadel, Charleston, SC [email protected]
Dr. Bob Brubaker, Treasurer
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY [email protected]
Dr. Jo Ann Lee, Membership
University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
Charlotte, NC [email protected]
Dr. Joan Duer, Coordinator, Annual Meeting
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL [email protected]
Dr. Mark Ashcraft, Editor, Letters from CAMPP
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH [email protected]
Dr. Gary Hanson, CAMPP liason to NAMP
Certification Board, Francis Marion University,
Florence, SC [email protected]