Past President’s Column: Virtual Reality: It Is About the Experience, Not the Immersion

by 553866pwpadmin | May 26, 2016 | Officers

Jerri Lynn Hogg, PhD HoggJL@aol.com The Earth is alive with energy. That’s both a metaphor and a scientific fact: just as all life, learning, and activity depends on energy from the environment, the planet itself carries an electrical potential, and researchers...

President-Elect’s Column: Device Management and Inter-Division Community Building

by 553866pwpadmin | May 26, 2016 | Officers

Joanne Broder Sumerson, PhD joannebrodersumerson@gmail.com Technology has largely changed our lives for the better. Turn back the clock to 2004 and we had not hit the mobile wave (Saylor, 2012) of smartphone and social media use.  Online learning needed a camera crew...

President’s Column: Primum non nocere, First, Do No Harm

by 553866pwpadmin | May 26, 2016 | Officers

Mary Gregerson, PhD mary.gregerson@aol.com Primum non nocere, Latin for “first, do no harm,” is one half of the bioethics of the Hippocratic Oath, the other part being “to do good.” “Doing good” has been a recent theme for APA Division 46 The Society for Media...

President-Elect Column: Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World Daily

by 553866pwpadmin | Dec 18, 2015 | Officers

Mary Gregerson, PhD mary.gregerson@aol.com In ancient Judaism tikkun olam meant repairing the world every day.  In this column, I describe three APA Division 46 2016 initiatives to make our world better daily in many ways: (a) The Media First Responder Corps, (b)...

Past President’s Column: A 12-Step Program for Building a Successful Consulting Practice

by 553866pwpadmin | Dec 18, 2015 | Officers

Bernard Luskin, EdD, LMFT Bernie@LuskinInternational.com I have operated a visible successful consulting company for over 25 years.  Interestingly, during these years, I needed to attend to the development of my company and my clients only intermittently because many...

From the Associate Editor: Leaving Underserved Teens Behind

by 553866pwpadmin | Dec 18, 2015 | Officers

Kathryn Stamoulis, PhD kestamoulis@hotmail.com The US Preventive Services Task Force (2015) strongly recommended that adolescents, ages 12 to 18, should be screened for depression.  One of their recommended screening tools, The Beck Depression Inventory, could easily...