Notes From The Chair

Carolyn Zerbe Enns

An Update on Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Girls and Women

In this final column that I will write as chair of the section, I want to provide an update about progress on the guidelines project and identify four larger personal meanings, which I hope can lend insight to our work and well-being as feminist psychologists.

Earlier this week, I returned from a guidelines working week-end (May 7-10) in Madison, Wisconsin. Roberta Nutt, Joy Rice, and I met to do more editing and writing at Joy’s French Norman home near the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. Joy has made this home into an art gallery extraordinaire! This was the second working week-end that the three of us have spent in Madison, and with every meeting I develop greater appreciation for great writing partners who share a vision and are highly committed to feminist process.

How did we arrive at this point and where do we go from here? It has been a full two years since we met for a long week-end retreat in Dallas, Texas (April of 2002) to craft the eleven statement that provide a foundation for the Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women. Many of the roughly 25 participants who worked together during that original, very exciting phase are SAW members. The eleven guidelines (divided into the categories of (a) diversity, social context, and power; (b) professional responsibility; and (c) practice applications) remain the core components of the document, which has been expanded, revised, and edited numerous times and is now about 80 pages in length.

Those of you who were at APA Toronto are aware that following the affirmation of our sponsoring divisions (17 and 35), the guidelines document was examined thoroughly by two major APA committees (COPPS and BPA). In order to respond to the extensive feedback, roughly twenty more individuals (many of whom are SAW members) volunteered to complete focused literature searches and writing in the following areas that needed additional work: (a) girls, (b) clinical literature, (c) need, (d) strengths and joys of being female (including motherhood, reproduction, parenting etc.), (e) ethics, and (f) contemporary social forces that influence girls’ and women’s lives. This group of volunteers produced 165 pages of writing, abstracts, and references, which Joy, Roberta, and I have been integrating within the document. The writing tasks of the past several months have felt daunting at times, but all three of us feel quite strongly that the current document is a much more polished, improved document. We will do some additional editing over the next several weeks via e-mail and then will be resubmitting the document to BPA (APA Board of Professional Affairs), which will then disseminate the document to the various other APA committees and boards that will provide additional input. Thanks to all of you who have helped make this progress possible over the past four years!!!

I want to add a few personal notes about what I have learned so far from being one of the three co-chairs of the task force that was charged with developing/revising guidelines for working with women and girls. First, my co-chairs have also become my very good friends. When a writing-coordinating team “clicks” like this, it is really wonderful and rewarding. Each person on our team has offered a unique (I would say essential) perspective. I wish for each and every one of you a similar opportunity to work in such a productive way with feminist colleagues.

Second, good things often take a really long time to complete. Patience, persistence, and support from colleagues are essential to getting through the long haul. So far we have been working for four years on the guidelines project, and it is hard to say how long it will take to work through APA approval processes. However, I have confidence that we will be successful, thanks to the contributions and support of so many great colleagues. The “moral” of the story for all of us is the following: if you have a project that has not been “moving” for awhile and is just sitting there, consider getting back to it and inviting your feminist colleagues to give you the support and feedback you need to take the next step. I hope we can also absorb this frame of reference for thinking about projects and agendas that are important to SAW.

Third, I am reminded again that task force groups really do work! SAW has a long history of using the task force model for dealing with issues related to social justice and counseling/psychotherapy with girls and women. Over time, several SAW task forces have emerged spontaneously as section members have become concerned about an issue and banded together to complete an important task. Although most of the goals of our task forces have been somewhat less ambitious than the guidelines project, they have produced important work. As we come together again in Hawaii, please think about projects that interest you, and please consider volunteering to participate in a focused project.

Fourth, my recent experience of working with colleagues was an important reminder of the need to engage in self-care, to mix in some play along with work. Over the course of the week-end, our team worked late into the evenings, but we also took time for some intensive play periods. These included a short, relaxing break at the Madison Arboretum, where we absorbed the fragrance of lilac bushes and numerous other blossoming trees; and a two-hour power-shopping trip, which allowed Roberta to add to her collection of purple and lavender housewares! (Those of you who participated in the Dallas working retreat, where our “play” included an opportunity to make jewelry, will not be surprised that our shopping spree included a visit to a bead/jewelry shop.) We also managed a brief stop at “A Woman’s Touch,” a local store that caters to women’s more sensual interests. As a result of these short breaks (as well as the great working experience), I came home refreshed and energized. I continue to struggle to live a balanced life, and I know that many of you encounter similar challenges as you negotiate complex career and relationship dynamics. For all of us, I hope for the resolve, flexibility, and freedom to create balanced lives that integrate good work with good fun.

As I conclude, I want to remind you of the lengthy set of “notes” that I sent via the listserve during the middle of March. In that previous commentary, I summarized some important themes that emerged from the mid-year Division 17 retreat on “The Future of Counseling Psychology” and the meeting of SAW members at the AWP convention. These meetings focused on the challenges of forging identities as counseling psychologists in the 21^st century, and provided some time to brainstorm about a potential SAW mini-conference in the not-to-distant future. Rather than repeating myself for this newsletter, I encourage you to refer back to my mid-March “notes.”

Wishing all of you a healthy, happy, and productive summer,

Carol

SAW GOVERNING BOARD

Elected Officers

Chair Membership

Carol Enns Connie Matthews

Psychology Dept, Cornell College Dept of Counselor Ed,

600 First St, West Counseling Psych & Rehab

Mt. Vernon, IA 52314-1098 327 CEDAR Bldg, Penn State Univ

319-895-4450 University Park, PA 16802

cenns@cornell.college.edu cxm206@psu.edu

Past Chair Treasurer

Sue Morrow Libby Nutt Williams

University of Utah-Ed Psych Dept. of Psychology

1705 E Campus Center Dr, Rm 327 St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Salt Lake City, UT 84112-8255 18952 E. Fisher Rd

801-581-3400 St. Mary’s City, MD 20686-3001

morrow@ed.utah.edu 240-895-4467

enwilliams@smcm.edu

Chair-Elect

Dawn M. Szymanski Interim Newsletter Editor

Division of Counseling & Jill S. Barber

Family Therapy Georgia Tech Counseling Center

University of Missouri-St. Louis Atlanta, GA 30332

8001 Natural Bridge Road 404-894-2575

St. Louis, MO 63121-4499 jill.barber@vpss.gatech.edu

314-516-6086

dawnszymanski@msn.com

Ex-officio Officers

Awards & Appointments More Pie Initiative Liaison

Sue Morrow Tania Israel

(Contact info above ) Department of Education

University of California

Technology Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Sue Morrow tisrael@education.ucsb.edu

(Contact info above)

Student Network

Oksana Yakushko & University of Missouri-Columbia Counseling Psychology - 816 Hill Hall Meghan Davidson (Co-Chairs) Columbia, MO 65211

From the Editor…

I (Jill) am very pleased to have been offered the opportunity to edit this spring/summer 2004 edition of WomanView and will miss seeing all of you in Hawaii. As I am writing this, I am a little more than 8 months pregnant and our daughter is due, two weeks before APA. I’ll miss the wonderful connections with the women of SAW and am glad to have a way to stay connected to you through email and the newsletter. If I am elected to continue with this responsibility, submissions for the Fall Edition 04 can be emailed to me at jill.barber@vpss.gatech.edu.

Take care and enjoy Hawaii,

Jill Barber

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

Maya Angelou

Introducing our incoming chair

Dawn Szymanski

Introducing Dawn Szymanski, SAW Chair for 2004-2006

During the APA Hawaii convention, Dawn will be taking over the role as SAW chair.Although many of you know Dawn very well, in part through the fabulous job she did as newsletter editor for SAW, some additional words of introduction will give you a more complete picture of the skills and perspective she will bring to her new role as chair.Dawn is currently an assistant professor in the community counseling program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and has held this position since 2002. She completed both her Ed.S. in community counseling and Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Georgia State University.

As a practicing psychologist, Dawn describes her theoretical orientation as the integration of feminist and family systems models. Her counseling experiences include working with college students at university counseling centers, children and families in therapeutic foster care, pregnant teenagers, the developmentally disabled, children and adolescents in group homes and residential treatment centers, victims of rape and battering, and crisis hotlines. As a counseling educator, Dawn teaches a variety of foundational courses in family, community, and individual counseling, and also directs practicum experiences. As a researcher, Dawn focuses on applying feminist therapy theory to counseling, supervision, and women’s mental health. In particular, she is interested in exploring the ways in which external and internalized oppression influence mental health experiences of women in general as well as various subgroups of women (e.g., lesbians, women of color, women with disabilities).

Several of Dawn’s most recent awards include the Psychotherapy With Women Award (APA Division 35, 2002) and the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, which was granted to her by the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services at Georgia State University. In terms of her personal life, Dawn has a partner of 12 years and in her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her two dogs, Jason & Peanut, gardening, cooking, building dollhouses, exercising, listening to music, and yoga.

As you can see, Dawn Szymanski brings a rich and varied background to her new role as SAW chair. She has earned several awards from Division 35 (Psychology of Women), and has been especially involved in both Division 17 (Counseling Psychology) and Division 44 (Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues). Her involvement in these APA divisions gives her an excellent base from which to help us build alliances with groups committed to similar social justice concerns. We look forward to Dawn’s leadership.

An Opportunity to be a Book Reviewer

I (Carol) recently assumed the role of book review editor for the Psychology of Women Quarterly and am interested in increasing the range of individuals who contribute reviews to the journal. I am taking over from Arnie Kahn, who has done a marvelous job of fulfilling this role during the past five years.

If you have interest in reviewing the occasional book, please let me know. I would appreciate receiving an e-mail message from you about the types of books that might be the “best fit” for you. Any information you can provide about your primary areas of research and counseling/clinical interests will also be very helpful to me as I work toward finding the most appropriate reviewers for specific books.

Writing or co-writing as a book reviewer is sometimes a wonderful way to become more comfortable with the writing and publication process. Although the task of writing a good book review is sometimes complex, the text of most reviews is relatively short (500-1,000), which makes the task quite manageable. In addition, the PWQ instructions for writing a review are quite clear. I look forward to hearing from you!

Carol Zerbe Enns

More Pie Initiative Conversation Hour at APA

The Division 17 More Pie Initiative will hold its 4^th annual conversation hour at APA on Friday July 30, 2004, 10:00-11:50am, in the Division 17 Hospitality Suite, Room B. The More Pie initiative is a collaborative effort among Division 17's Section for LGB Awareness (SLGBA), Section for Ethnic and Racial Diversity (SERD), and Section for the Advancement of Women (SAW). Our goals are to create a more powerful voice within Division 17, connect with other people within Division 17 who are interested in social justice, and raise our own awareness about social justice issues. All are welcome!

For more information, contact Section representatives:

SAW - Tania Israel (tisrael@education.ucsb.edu)

SERD - Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky (g_roysircar-sodowsky@antiochne.edu)

SLGBA - Michael Loewy (michael.loewy@und.nodak.edu)

or visit the More Pie Initiative website:

http://www.education.ucsb.edu/tisrael/morepie.html

The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the policies of the American Psychological Association, the Division of Counseling Psychology, or its Sections

Division 35/AWP Mentoring Events in Honolulu

The role and importance of mentoring has been a significant topic of conversation within SAW. In fact, we have been considering hosting a conference of some type on that topic. In light of our members’ interest in this area, please take note of a series of APA convention mentoring events that will be co-sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women (SPW) and the Association for Women in Psychology (AWP). All mentoring events will occur in the hospitality suite of AWP/SPW.

Mentoring events will focus on three major domains:

1. Developing your private practice

-getting licensed

-planning your practice: preferences and priorities

-setting up and marketing your practice

-issues facing women in private practice

2. Leadership and activism

-community involvement

-international activism

-getting involved in AWP, SPW, and APA governance

-getting political

3. How to succeed in academe

-getting an academic job

-research and publishing

-qualitative research

-reviewing articles for journal

-overcoming barriers in academe

As the time of the Honolulu convention nears, please the apa.org website for more detailed information about the times of these conversations (click on divisions/div35/mentorevents).

Division 35 Book Series

Society in 2004 is marked by a great number of critical challenges. The number of children and family living in poverty is soaring. High School drop outs from our nation’s schools are on the rise and high stakes testing is changing the way our students are being educated. Head Start programs, long celebrated for being scientifically based educational intervention are at risk for funding. We are living with the effects of welfare reform and need to look critically at how these reforms have affected children youth and families. Women risk the loss of their right to reproductive choice. While our country is becoming more diverse, celebration of diversity is decreasing. Since September 11, 2001, we have lived with new restrictions on our freedoms, new costs for wars launched in the Middle East and constant fear: how is this new anxiety affecting women who have long been the transmitters of culture and community? How are couples coping with the ubiquitous (but not sufficient) reality of dual wage earners. New neurology research and the genome project are revealing gender differences that require careful thought regarding the implications for education, socialization and remediation. Mental health problems in this age of anxiety are at epic proportions even as managed care and federal policies reduce port for mental health services: where is prevention in an age of drastic budget cuts and removal of basic social and health services?

Feminist psychologists have claimed they have a moral imperative to improve society (e.g., Worell and Johnson, 1997). What can feminist psychology bring to the conversation about what we need to do as a nation in the face of so many social changes? This mini-series will draw from the expertise of feminist psychologists who have been working on social issues using the lens of feminist consciousness. What have we learned that can inform policy makers? What does our research show that can influence practitioners and advocates?

The Division 35 Book Series will publish a series of invited monographs addressing the critical issues facing our society. Authors will be invited (nominations and self-nominations are solicited) to write short (100-120 manuscript pages) monographs that synthesize the literature and lead to recommendations that can be used by parents, practitioners, advocates and policy makers. It is envisioned that these books will be based on current scholarship, but will be written in a way that is accessible to lay persons who are not knowledgeable in a given field. Longer than a journal article, but shorter than a full text, books in the series would be extended essays that draw together the work of feminists in research and in advocacy and allow scholars to reflectively examine their life’s work. If you have a nomination for an author of a book that fits the description above, please contact:

Mary M. Brabeck

Book Series Editor

Steinhardt School of Education

New York University

82 Washington Square East

New York, NY 10003

Mmb7@nyu.edu

For other book ideas for the Division series, see http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/edit.html

Member Publications

Teaching and Social Justice: Integrating Multicultural and Feminist Theories in the Classroom is scheduled for publication by APA Press in November, 2004. This book was inspired by the 1998 SAW conference on “Advancing Together: Centralizing Feminism and Multiculturalism in Counseling Psychology” (pegagogy working group). Edited by Carol Zerbe Enns and Ada Sinacore, contributors to this book also include Vianey Acevedo, Őzge Akçali, Saba Rasheed Ali, Julie Ancis, Tina Anctil, Nan Benally, Karyn Boatwright, Michele Boyer, Angela Byars-Winston, Ruth Fassinger, Linda Forrest, Nancy Hensler-McGinnis, Heidi Larson, Cecilia Nepomuceno, Karen Tao, and Georgiana Wilton

Oh, E., & Neville, H. A. (2004). Development and Validation

of Korean Rape Myth Acceptance Scale. The Counseling

Psychologist. 32, 301-331.

Neville, H. A., Heppner, M. J., Oh, E., Spanierman, L., &

Clark, M. K. (2004). Postsexual assault: An investigation of

general and culture-specific factors among Black and White

college women. Psychology of Women Quarterly. 28 83-94.

Whalen, M. (2004). Battery, Power, and Control in Intimate

Relationships: Designing Crisis Interventions. In T. Collins & B.

Collins (Eds.), Crisis and Trauma: Developmental-Ecological

Intervention. Boston: Lahaska Press (Houghton-Mifflin).

SAW PROGRAMMING IN HAWAII

Our SAW programming will look a bit different than it has in previous years! Please be aware of the following events and mark your calendars!

First, our SAW Champagne Breakfast, which includes the awards ceremony and membership meeting, has been scheduled from 8-10 AM on Saturday, July 31. Please join us for this time of celebration, checking in, networking, and planning. During previous years, our breakfast has been scheduled on Sunday morning. We requested the move from Sunday to Saturday to avoid holding our celebration on the final day of the convention!

Second, the winner of the 2003 Woman of the Year Award, Lauren Weitzman, will be delivering her address from 12:00 to 12:50 on Friday, July 30. The title of her talk will be: “Multiple Role Realism Reconsidered: A Personal and Professional Journey Seeking Balance.” Lauren was recently named Director of the University of Utah Counseling Center. Congratulations!

Third, SAW will sponsor a 2-hour workshop on Thursday afternoon, July 29 from 12-2. The workshop will follow up on the theme of the Division 17 mid-winter meeting retreat, which focused on the identity and future of counseling psychology. One of the discussion topics at the retreat emphasized the need for counseling psychologists to more actively tell their stories about how counseling psychologists create and recreate their identities in diverse contexts. Thus, the tentative title of our workshop will be: “On Developing and Sustaining an Identity as a Feminist Multicultural Counseling Psychologist.” We will hear from SAW members who have negotiated their identities in multiple contexts and will consider some strategies for making and remaking our identities on a day-to-day basis. More information about this workshop will be forthcoming as we finalize the topic and the presenters! Compared to most sessions of the formal convention program, this workshop will provide an opportunity to interact and learn with other counseling psychologists in a more intimate, interactive setting.

Fourth, the More Pie Initiative is scheduled for 10-11:50 on Friday, July 30. This meeting provides an important opportunity for SAW members to communicate with members of other Division 17 sections that are especially interested in social justice issues.

SAW Student Thesis and Dissertation Research Award –

by Sue Morrow

I am happy to announce that this year's SAW Student Thesis and Dissertation Research Award winners were selected out of a very competitive group of proposals. The winners are:

Allison Lau, University of Oregon, "Asian Women and Body Image"

Carrie Castañeda, University of Utah, "Experiences of Language Brokering Among Mexican Heritage Women"

Congratulations! Thanks to the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17) for its generous yearly contribution to Sections, each student will be awarded $200 to help with their research expenses. Thanks, too, to the review committee: Barb Palombi, Connie Matthews, Debra Mollen, Lina Pranata, Karen Cone-Uemura, Karyn Boatwright, Lois Benishek, and Oksana Yakushko.

Congratulations, Student Poster Session Presenters!

I am pleased to announce that the following student posters from SAW student members have been accepted for the CCPTP/ SAG/ Society of Counseling Psychology (Div. 17) Poster Session/ Social Hour at APA. This social hour and poster session is a high point of the Convention. Please stop by and visit with our students:

Poster #12: Shana Hamilton, Brandy Smith, Chad Mosher, Eric Manley, Wendy Wonch, Carrie Houts, Teresa Johnson, & Mike Bricker, The University of Memphis, Gender in Relationship Violence

Poster #13

H. Norene Wu, Shawntae K. Jones, & Michele C. Boyer, Indiana State University, Working with Battered Women: Shelter Caseworkers’ Experiences with Spiritual and Religious Issues

Poster #14

Rachel Millner, Deborah, Kawahara, & Mojgan Khademi, California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University, The Experience of Lesbians who have a History of Binge Eating Disorder: A Qualitative Investigation

Poster #15

Maryann Latus & Amber Cadick, Indiana State University, Sources of Support Among First-Generation Doctoral Students in Psychology

Poster #16

Susanna Gallor, Julie Arseneau, Penny Asay, Ruth Fassinger, Judith Giordan, Sheetal Patel, Tracey Potter, Melissa Roffman, & Heather Walton, University of Maryland, College Park, Project Enhance: Enhancing the Participation of Women Scientists and Engineers in the Chemical Industry

Poster #17

Alexia Giblin, Mary Lee Nelson, & Diane Jones, University of Washington, Adolescent Girls’ Appearance Conversations: Evaluation, Pressure and Coping

The poster session/ social hour will be held on Friday, July 30 from 6:00-6:50 pm in the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Coral Ballroom V.

ANNOUNCING A STUDENT OPPORTUNITY

It is time for SAW to elect student representatives for the upcoming year. If you are interested in this fabulous opportunity to become more involved in the section and to be mentored by great women, please contact Dawn Szymanski and let her know.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.

Margaret Mead

WomanView Newsletter

WomanView is published three times a year, in

the Fall, Spring, and Summer. All SAW members

are encouraged to submit current professional and

personal news (e.g., publications, awards, births,

anniversaries), announcements of interest to SAW

members, short articles, book reviews relevant to

feminist counseling psychology, photos of SAW

events, and/or suggestions for upcoming issues of

the newsletter. When submitting information about

a publication or presentation, be sure to include all

authors in the reference just as they appear in the

journal or conference program (according to APA

guidelines).

Information can be submitted to Jill Barber via e-

mail at jill.barber@vpss.gatech.edu or

by postal mail at Counseling Center, Georgia Tech,

Atlanta GA 30332

Submission deadlines are January 15, May 15, and

September 15.

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