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Guidelines for the evaluation of dementia and age-related cognitive change.
Dementia in its many forms is a leading cause of functional limitation among older adults worldwide and will continue to ascend in global health importance as populations continue to age and effective cures remain elusive. The following guidelines were developed for psychologists who perform evaluations of dementia and age-related cognitive change. These guidelines conform to the American Psychological Association’s (APA’s) “Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct”. The term guidelines refers to statements that suggest or recommend specific professional behavior, endeavors, or conduct for psychologists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Guidelines for psychological practice with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients.
The “Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients” provide psychologists with (a) a frame of reference for the treatment of lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients and (b) basic information and further references in the areas of assessment, intervention, identity, relationships, diversity, education, training, and research. These practice guidelines are built upon the “Guidelines for Psychotherapy With Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients” (Division 44/Committee on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns Joint Task Force on Guidelines for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients, 2000) and are consistent with the American Psychological Association (APA) “Criteria for Practice Guideline Development and Evaluation". They assist psychologists in the conduct of lesbian, gay, and bisexual affirmative practice, education, and research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Guidelines for assessment of and intervention with persons with disabilities.
The goal of these “Guidelines for Assessment of and Intervention With Persons With Disabilities” is to help psychologists conceptualize and implement more effective, fair, and ethical psychological assessments and interventions with persons with disabilities. The guidelines provide suggestions on ways psychologists can make their practices more accessible and disability-sensitive and on how they might enhance their working relationships with clients with disabilities. Additionally, the guidelines provide information on how psychologists can obtain more education, training, and experience with disability-related matters. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Guidelines for the practice of parenting coordination.
Parenting coordination is a nonadversarial dispute resolution process that is court ordered or agreed on by divorced and separated parents who have an ongoing pattern of high conflict and/or litigation about their children. These guidelines are designed to address the developing area of practice known as parenting coordination. In response to the recognition by family courts and substantial evidence in the empirical and clinical literature that divorce does not end patterns of high parental conflict for some families, parenting coordination interventions began to be developed more than two decades ago. In the past decade, parenting coordination work has expanded across states and jurisdictions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Morton Edward Bitterman (1921–2011).
Presents an obituary for Mortan Edward "Jeff" Bitterman. Bitterman obtained his doctorate in 1945 and remained at Cornell as a professor until moving to the University of Texas (UT) in 1950 at the invitation of K. M. Dallenbach, a former mentor at Cornell. Over his career, Bitterman studied at least a dozen different species (often inventing new apparatus), and found that the laws underlying probability learning, extinction after partial reinforcement, and discrimination reversals differed across vertebrate species. Bitterman was invited to universities in two dozen countries around the world, where he actively promoted keen scientific study of comparative behavior to psychologists and to biologists and neuroscientists who needed the methods of behaviorists to link mechanism to function. He was a mentor and friend to several generations of behavioral scientists. Jeff Bitterman died at the age of 90, surrounded by family and friends, on May 10, 2011, in San Francisco, California. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Agnes N. O'Connell (1933–2011).
Presents an obituary for Agnes N. O'Connell (1933-2011). The author comments that O'Connell will be remembered as a major pioneer in the study of women in psychology. She is best known for identifying and recognizing eminent women in psychology, recording and analyzing their contributions and life stories, and working to preserve their work for posterity within an appropriate historical and sociocultural context. She died at home on June 6, 2011, in Matawan, New Jersey, after a long battle with cancer. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Darryl Bruce (1939–2011).
Presents an obituary for Darryl Bruce (1939-2011). Bruce began as assistant professor at Florida State University in 1967 and was promoted to full professor in 1983. In 1987, Bruce was appointed head of the Psychology Department at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, and subsequently he became chair of psychology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1990 to 1994. In 1996–1997, Bruce was visiting professor at Emory University. From 2006, as emeritus professor, Bruce served in both teaching and service capacities at Saint Mary’s University. Bruce contributed professionally with consulting editorships on the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and the Journal Supplement Abstract Service , a guest editorship for Applied Cognitive Psychology , and a foundational role in the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. He was also a member of the Psychonomic Society, the Association for Psychological Science, and Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) of APA. Darryl Bruce is survived by his wife and best friend, Marianne Van Pelt, and three stepchildren, Martin, Stephanie, and Tom Van Pelt. All were by his side when he died peacefully on July 8, 2011. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
The ever-changing meanings of retirement.
Shultz and Wang (see record 2011-03464-001) drew attention to the ways in which understandings of retirement have changed over time, both in terms of the place of retirement in the lives of individuals and in terms of how retirement can no longer usefully be taken to comprise a single defining event. As the authors pointed out, psychological research has approached the study of retirement in a range of ways, including life span developmental perspectives, industrial/organizational approaches, and clinical and counseling studies. It is against this background that Shultz and Wang argued that psychology is well placed to make a unique contribution to research on retirement by taking forward three conceptualizations of retirement that can inform further work in this area, focusing on individual decision making, the longitudinal development process that ultimately leads to retirement, and the interactions between individuals and their environments by which individuals shape their experiences of retirement. Yet attempting to understand retirement in the terms that Shultz and Wang proposed will almost inevitably leave central elements of retirement unaddressed, for two reasons. Both of these factors pose challenges for any attempts to study retirement in the ways that Shultz and Wang proposed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Is retirement always stressful? The potential impact of creativity.
In their recent and insightful article on adjustment among retirees, Wang, Henkens, and van Solinge (see record 2011-03465-001) provided a comprehensive review of current theorizing on the antecedents of employees’ postretirement well-being. Central to their review is a resource-based model, which conceptualizes retirement as a stress-inducing role transition that requires significant pools of resources to overcome. Prototypical of the resource paradigm are examinations of how monetary resources allow retirees to overcome financial stressors and how familial connections allow retirees to overcome emotional stressors. Despite the explanatory power of Wang et al.’s model, a broader perspective on role transitions suggests that retirement might not always be inherently stressful. Viewed from the perspective of the creative personality, employees may in fact experience retirement as a self-actualizing event that enhances well-being through the provision of desired novelty. Existing empirical evidence on individual difference predictors of role transitions provides preliminary support for this perspective, suggesting that while retirement is often stressful it can also be an energizing and fulfilling experience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
Correction to “Summary report of division journal operations, 2010”.
Reports an error in "Summary report of journal operations, 2010" by ( American Psychologist , 2011[Jul-Aug], Vol 66[5], 405-406). Some of the data in the “Total pages published” column were incorrect. All electronic versions of this table have been corrected. A link to the corrected versions is included in the erratum. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2011-14747-012.) Presents the summary report of APA journal operations for 2010. This summary is compiled from the 2010 annual reports of the Council of Editors and from Central Office records. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

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