The InterPsych Newsletter 1(2)
Volume 1, Issue 2 ISSN 1355-2562 June, 1994
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Contents
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1. What is InterPsych? (Line 41)
2. The New Board of Directors/Trustees (Line 81)
3. Bath University Bulletin Board For Libraries (Line 126)
4. The Joint Communique (Line 174)
5. Articles: (Line 233)
5.1 Juan Carlos Garelli: 'Ethological Roots of Affectional
Bonds and Related Emotions'
5.2 Sylvia Caras: 'Disabled: One More Label.'
6. Submissions from InterPsych Subscribers (Line 539)
6.1 American Psychological Society Gopher
6.2 Innovative Degrees at Dartmouth
6.3 The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences
6.4 Journal: Interpersonal Computing and Technology
6.5 Cognitive Differences Between Clinical Psychologists
and Psychiatrists
7. New Lists (Line 860)
7.1 Psycho-pharm
7.2 Child-psychiatry
8. Advertisements from those Seeking Placements (Line 920)
8.1 John D. O'Brien, PhD
9. Calls for Research Collaborators (Line 1209)
9.1 Mental Health Information Via Gopher
10. Job Advertisements (Line 1287)
10.1 Lectureships at the University of Derby
10.2 Find a Job via the Internet
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SECTION 1: What Is InterPsych?
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InterPsych is the name for the non-profit making organization
conducting multidisciplinary debate on issues in psychiatry, abnormal
psychology, and psychopathology using the facilities of the Internet.
InterPsych maintains the following groups:
Group Number of Members Number of Members
4th June 1994 21st June 1994
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Psychiatry 576 606
Helplessness 236 262
Psychiatry-assessment 201 221
Transcultural-psychology 176 232
Attachment 153 169
Psychiatry-resources 136 164
Traumatic-stress 309 340
Depression 206 256
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TOTAL 1993 2250
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Three new groups have also just become operational: psycho-pharm,
child-psychiatry and clinical-psychology.
Although some of the members belong to more than one list it is
important to remember that many distribution groups also subscribe,
including university departments, government departments, and other
academic and professional bodies. Our total InterPsych distribution
is therefore difficult to estimate, but I know that the
redistribution list in Argentina alone reaches a further 1500 people,
and there is another similar list in Brazil at the University of
Campinas. As a rough guess the redistribution groups probably reach
three or four times the number of people listed above. Given that the
original list 'psychiatry' only became operational on 14th February
this response is staggering, confirming my belief that we have met a
very genuine need for interdisciplinary debate in this field.
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SECTION 2: The New Board of Directors/Trustees
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President of InterPsych:
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Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.; Professor of Psychology, University
of Pennsylvania, USA
Board Members
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Charles R. Figley, Ph.D.: Professor and Director of the
Psychosocial Stress Research Program and Clinic, Florida State
University, USA.
Stevan Harnad, PhD.; Professor of Psychology and Director of
Cognitive Science Centre, University of Southampton, UK. Editor of
Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Psycoloquy.
Ivan K. Goldberg, M.D.; Director, New York Psychopharmacologic
Institute.
Juan Carlos Garelli, M.D.; Attachment Research Center, Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
Elizabeth Hudnall Stamm, PhD.; Assistant Professor of Psychology,
University of Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Edward Workman, EdD, M.D.; Assistant Professor of Psychiatric
Medicine; Co-Director of Psychiatric Research, University of
Virginia Medical School, USA
David L. DiLalla, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA.
Thomas Joiner, Ph.D.; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA
Ian Pitchford; Neuroscience Student, Founder & co-ordinator of
InterPsych. University of Sheffield, UK.
Greg Berns, M.D., Ph.D.: Resident in Psychiatry, University of
Pittsburgh, USA.
Edward Wakeman; D.Phil Student, University of Oxford, UK.
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SECTION 3: The Bath University Bulletin Board for Libraries
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InterPsych is currently building a psychiatry database on the above
mainframe. Subscribers are welcome to submit any relevant information
for storage in the database:
BUBL began life as the "Bulletin Board for Libraries" and still aims
to provide LIS professionals both with information on services and
resources on JANET, the Internet, and other networks, and with a means
of exploiting the network for professional ends. However, it also aims
to provide other network users with access to, and information and
guidance on the wide range of services and resources available on
academic networks.
Access to the service is by one of the following routes:
Telnet: BUBL.BATH.AC.UK or 138.38.32.45 login:
'bubl'
Gopher: BUBL.BATH.AC.UK (138.38.32.45) Port 7070
World Wide Web: http://www.bubl.bath.ac.uk/BUBL/home.html
The psychiatry section has the following structure:
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616.89 Psychiatry
.890 22 Adolescent psychiatric disorders
.891 Therapy
.891 2 Shock Therapy
.891 22 Electroconvulsive Therapy
.891 3 Physical Therapy
.891 4 Psychotherapy
.891 42 Behaviour Therapy
.891 43 Gestalt
.891 44 Milieu
.891 45 Transactional Analysis
.891 5 Group and Family Psychotherapy
.891 6 Mental and Activity therapies
.891 7 Psychoanalysis
.891 8 Drug Therapy
616.892 Psychoses
.895 Manic depressive psychosis
.897 Paranoia and paranoid conditons
.898 Schizophrenia
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SECTION 4: The Joint Communique
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An Important Communique from the InterPsych Board of Directors
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To all members of psychiatry, psychiatry-assessment, helplessness,
depression, traumatic-stress, attachment, transcultutral-psychology,
psychiatry-resources:
InterPsych is shortly to be registered as an educational charity in
order to enable us to effectively advance our aims. To assist
us in this vitally important work your Board would be most grateful if
you could hold the following points in mind at all times:
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1) InterPsych is a scientific organization whose purpose is to foster
and facilitate productive communication between members, regarding
psychiatry and psychopathology.
2) As such InterPsych strives to avoid discussions of gossip, inuendo,
or attacks of any kind on groups of professionals of whatever stripe
or flavour---we deal with the rational discussion of ideas and data
about substantive issues.
3) InterPsych supports the concept that psychiatry and
psychopathology, in order to evolve and develop optimally, require
multi-discliplinary input and discussion from, between, and among
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, nurses,
neuroscientists, non-psychiatric physicians, and students in related
discliplines, and those interested in any aspect of mental health.
4) in some very real ways, the lifeblood of mental health research and
practice is on the line in many countries due to budget cutbacks and
other regressive processes, and one of our missions is to foster
cooperation among mental health professionals and to educate each
other and the public about the mechanisms, efficacy, and research
issues involved in mental health and psychiatric diagnosis and
treatment.
Signed,
Professor Martin E.P. Seligman - President
Board Members:
Mr Ian Pitchford
Professor Edward Workman
Professor Charles R. Figley
Professor Stevan Harnad
Dr Ivan K. Goldberg
Professor David L. DiLalla
Professor Elizabeth Hudnall Stamm
Dr Greg Berns
Dr Juan Carlos Garelli
Dr Edward Wakeman
Professor Thomas Joiner
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Communique Drafted by Professor Edward Workman, InterPsych Academic
Standards Committee, June 1994.
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SECTION 5: Articles
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5.1 Juan Carlos Garelli: ETHOLOGICAL ROOTS OF AFFECTIONAL BONDS
AND RELATED EMOTIONS: Love, Grief, Hatred, Anguish, Sorrow, Warmth,
Togetherness, Joy, Anger, Despair, Happiness, Depression, etc.
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Bowlby's theory of attachment advances a multidisciplinary stance in
which ethology, psychobiology, the cybernetic theory of control
systems, cognitive psychology and psychiatry are integrated. The
integration of these disciplines was first undertaken in order to
understand the origin, function and development of the child's early
socio-emotional relations. That is why Bowlby's attachment theory is
in actual fact deeply embedded in a general theory of behaviour which
is an outgrowth of those manifold origins.
Pride of place is given in Bowlby's attachment theory to the
biological function of behaviour (Bowlby 1969/82, 1973, 1980).
According to contemporary evolutionary thinking, structures and
behavioural systems are now present in the population because they
contributed to reproductive success of the bearers in the environment
of evolutionary adaptedness.
Under certain ecological conditions, natural selection favours
individuals who invest heavily on childcare and upbringing (K-
selection, as opposed to r-selection). This kind of parental
behaviour protects offspring from predatory, parasitic and strange
animals. During evolutionary time, strong selection pressures have led
individuals to discriminate between their own and other's young
(Bateson, 1979). Filial imprinting is a phenomenon whereby
the young quickly learn to recognize their parents, thereby following
them everywhere, keeping proximity to them, and avoiding contact with
any other but close kin. The young need to discriminate between their
parents that care for them and other members of their species because
parents discriminate between their own offspring and other young of
the same species and may actually attack young which are not their own
(Bateson 1979).
Both selection pressures, protection from predation and filial
imprinting contribute in important ways to the formation and
strengthening of attachment behaviours, serving the purpose of
obtaining and maintaining optimal proximity between young and parents.
In a paper entitled "The Nature of the Child's Tie to its Mother",
Bowlby (1958) proposes that the infant's bond with his mother is
mediated by just such species-characteristic behavioural patterns and
*not* by the mother's role in feeding or otherwise satisfying the
infant's biological needs. Thus, attachment behaviour is held to be a
kind of social behaviour tantamount to mating or parenting and is
deemed to have a function specific to itself.
Modern post-lorenzian elaborations support the notion that emotions
and the expression of emotions have a gene-survival advantage for them
to evolve at all.
Bowlby (1969/82) considers the communicative functions of emotions to
be of paramount importance. During infancy emotional expressions such
as smiles and cries affect the behaviour of parents and caretakers and
thus play a special role in regulating social relationships. More
importantly, and more specifically, these signals promote proximity to
protective adults and thus must have had a great survival value in the
environment of evolutionary adaptedness.
Bowlby went further, suggesting that the repeated association of
proximity-promoting signals with appropriate responses on the part of
adults underlies the formation of attachment bonds between infants and
adults. Bowlby not only provided an answer to questions about why
emotions and social relationships exist in infancy, but also proposed
a mechanism whereby social bonding might proceed.
But let us listen to what Bowlby himself has to say about "The Making
and Breaking of Affectional Bonds" (1979):
"Affectional bonds and subjective states of strong emotion tend to go
together... Thus, many of the most intense of all human emotions
arise during the formation, the maintainance, the disruption and the
renewal of affectional bonds..." "Thus, anyone concerned with the
psychology and psychopathology of emotion is soon confronted..." with
the unchallenged fact that they are inseparable from the vicissitudes
of the related affectional bonds, id est, attachment relationships.
REFERENCES
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Bateson, P.P.G. (1979), How do sensitive periods arise and what are
they for?, Animal Behaviour, 27, 470/86.
Bowlby, J. (1958), The nature of the child's tie to his mother.
International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 39, 350/73.
Bowlby, J. (1969/82), A&L, vol. 1: Attachment. London: Basic Books.
Bowlby, J. (1973), A&L, vol. 2: Separation. London: The Hogarth Press.
Bowlby, J. (1980), A&L, vol. 3: Loss. London: The Hogarth Press.
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5.2 Sylvia Caras: Disabled: One More Label
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Labels are arbitrary, subjective, and used by the "in" group
to create and define deviance, to speak about the "others."
The Social Security Administration and the Americans with
Disabilities Act invited me to join the largest minority in
the United States and label myself. Should I use the word
disabled to describe my mood swings and melancholy? I have
thought a lot about whether I want the tag disabled. I've
decided I have a lot to gain.
In 1987, members of my mood network were describing how long
it took to get disability benefits, how difficult dealing
with the Social Security paperwork was, how humiliating were
the rejections. To learn the bureaucratic rules, I wanted
to go through the process myself and write a how-to manual.
I was interviewed by a psychiatrist for 30 minutes and
signed releases for my records. As I left his office, I
wondered how crazy I had seemed to the physician and what he
thought of me.
While I waited, expecting denial, I studied formal appeals
procedures and planned my next steps. Eventually I received
a notice letter from Social Security. My claim had been
accepted; I was to receive benefits.
Success was humiliating. I had told myself I only applied
for benefits to learn to help others with the process. Yes,
the inertia of major depression and the passion of
disruptive energy limit my life activities, but, . . . but,
. . . but am I really so sick? Confidential psychiatric
records said so. Now I had even more evidence of how the
world perceived me: mentally ill. Despite the monthly
direct credit to my bank account, and the later Medicare
coverage, I was humbled; I felt shamed. The acceptance had
been so easy I didn't even have enough experience to write
the manual I'd planned.
To reduce my discomfort with my new identification, I
started saying tentatively "I'm disabled" as a
conversational alternative to "no" when asked to volunteer
or socialize, and I began to feel less to blame for my
psychiatric adventures, even that I was less of a victim. I
began to think of myself as "disabled" as well as woman,
grandmother, activist. Disabled.
In 1991, when I first heard about the Americans with
Disabilities Act, I didn't realize that it applied to
"psychiatric impairments." When I discovered that my civil
rights, too, were now legally protected, I applied for a
singular training opportunity specifically for people with
disabilities, and became a member of the Americans with
Disabilities Act Training and Implementation Network.
Now I had to deal with wearing the word disabled in an even
more public way. Would I feel like an outsider because I
wasn't using a wheelchair? What would the other trainees
think when they saw me appearing, I believed, pretty
ordinary? Because my disability is relatively
inconspicuous, I have a choice about whether to disclose my
impairment. Am I really disabled, or am I being indulgent,
hiding behind moods and labels I should be able to overcome?
Reservations and reluctances faded away as I met others who
also had inconspicuous disabilities (and it didn't seem
socially correct to ask how they qualified). Many had a
wondrous background in access activism, had been advocating
since before 1973 for curb cuts, ramps and other fundamental
accommodations. They had developed a proactive vocabulary
to express the goals of independent living, personal
assistance, equal access and opportunity. They were
lobbying and protesting; they had political knowledge and
consensus strategies.
I wondered why I knew so little about the disability rights
movement. I had been doing mental health protection and
advocacy work locally and nationally, receiving newsletters,
going to conferences. My sources were the mental health
community and I was uninformed.
I associated my lack of knowledge with the general style of
mental health systems, a style which isolates users of
mental health services in separate, often locked, hospitals
and residences, and provides separated and unequal support
services. Without realizing that we had natural allies, we
rights advocates had gone forward with our work in heroic
but lonely separateness, as isolated by our own movement as
by the system of care we were challenging.
I was aroused and heartened by the work others were doing,
by their language, by their quick support for our rejection
of involuntary interventions for competent adults. I was
bolstered to hear others talk about fear and shame and
isolation and stigma, and more need for belonging and
acceptance and touch.
There was already a word for coalition: cross-disability. I
was stimulated by the full promise of a unified cross-
disability movement. I was interested in what I learned
about other disability labels, how learning disabilities and
environmental illness and psychosis have some common
symptoms and behaviours.
People with chemical sensitivity spoke of rushes of anger
when they were exposed to perfume. I had learned those
rushes of anger were warnings of mania. People with
learning disabilities spoke of difficulty paying attention
or sitting still. I had learned that not concentrating and
not remembering were symptoms of depression. Now, I learned
more about alternatives by using the perspective of other
disabilities.
During that first week of training, I felt accepted, and
safe enough to ask for an accommodation. Background noise
made it hard for me to focus; I was offered a listening
device and I was able to stay attentively in the main
training room. I have been used to having my discomforts
diagnosed and medicated. Now, I was inarticulately soothed
by having a personal need both valued and easily met. I
asked again: Realizing I would be overloaded if I took the
written exam in the main room, I asked to take the test
alone. Again, easily, without judgement, I was encouraged
to complete the work in a way that maximized my ability.
Here, I was experiencing the language and attitudes of anti-
discrimination law. I was surrounded by the implicit
valuing of my differentness.
In mental illness circles much is said about stigma. Stigma
is an attitude and attitudes are hard to change. But the
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) addresses
discrimination, an action. By making discriminatory actions
illegal, the ADA broadens the scope of our civil rights.
Even without disclosing my psychiatric history I am
protected by some parts of the ADA. Employers can no longer
ask any questions about medical history or disability on
application forms or in pre-employment interviews. But in
order to ask for the accommodations that I believe will make
working or program participation possible for me, I must
disclose disability. I've come to the conclusion that this
disclosure is an advantage. I believe wrapping myself in
the warmth and protection of the disability label is good
for me.
The first category of the ADA disability definition --
physical or mental impairments that substantially limit
major life activities -- is controversial to survivors who
reject the medical model, to many who want acceptance, not
medicine, for altered states of mind. I understand that
position and find it congenial, and I still looked past
ideology to the balance of the definition.
The further parts of the ADA definition protect persons with
a record of disability and persons regarded as disabled. I
have a record of disability: there is an unexpungeable
"blotter notation" at my home town police department that
shows up whenever there is the most elementary background
check for credit or employment. I am regarded as disabled:
many who see me as "bipolar" become wary when I comment that
I'm feeling better, and discount as grandiose my global and
long term interests in systemic change and spiritual
understanding.
To receive the protection of many of the ADA employment
provisions, the employer must at least be told that there is
a disability; and the employer may require proof. A
qualified individual with a disability may ask for
reasonable accommodation during the application and testing
process and to do the job. But the employer is not required
to even discuss reasonable accommodation unless the employer
has been informed that the employee or applicant has a
disability.
Despite discontent with the language of psychiatric labelling
and the language used for referring to emotional and mental
illness, I want to use the ADA to take advantage of the ADA
protections. I am not willing to forfeit the aegis of this
landmark civil rights legislation. I want membership in the
cross-disability community.
To strengthen the ADA, each protected individual must use
and test the provisions. I hope that all of us who have
been excluded because of madness will now look for work,
volunteer our skills, get independent housing, request
integrated programs and services, show that we are not a
threat, use the law to ensure broad equal opportunity for
users of mental health services in a variety of areas.
People with disabilities in the United States are 43 million
strong. The unified disability movement is growing
sturdier, networking, forming coalitions, lobbying.
Information is being exchanged among disabilities. We can
internalize a powerful positive social definition of
disability. We can be together in interdependence and
relative equality. We can be rich in obtaining and sharing
information. We can champion common goals about independent
living and access, and integrated values about these goals.
I want to create blame-free acceptance from others of my
self and my purported disability. I want to diminish
discrimination and increase inclusion through activism. To
achieve this goal, I am using the label "disabled."
_Hospital and Community Psychiatry_, April 1994,
Vol 45, No 4, p323. Sylvia Caras' current project is the e-
mail list ThisIsCrazy. Her address is sylviac@netcom.com.
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SECTION 6: Submissions from Subscribers
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From: Bill Long
brl@mcimail.com
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If you are interested in exploring all of the available
psychology-related listservs and usenet groups available on
the internet, you may want to check out the new American
Psychological Society (APS) Gopher. The gopher contains
several useful resources including a document listing 60
plus different discussion groups covering a wide range of
professional psychology topics. Host and path are listed
below:
Host=gopher.hanover.edu
Path=1/Hanover_College_Information/Psychology/APS
If you have corrections, updates, or more groups please send
them to brl@mcimail.com and they will be added to future
updates of the listserv document.
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6.2 Innovative Degrees in the Evaluative Clinical Sciences-M.S.,PhD.
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The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS) at Dartmouth Medical
School offers Dartmouth College master's and doctoral degrees, in a new
program focused on outcomes research. The Center is directed by Jack
Wennberg, whose seminal work in small area variations, claims analysis, and
exploration of patient preferences is internationally recognized. The
program's interdisciplinary curriculum features unusual opportunities for
mentored research and practicum work in topical areas.
Students initially take coursework in the areas of health policy, medical
decision making & health behavior, and epidemiology/biostatistics. Then,
they carry out research in areas of their choice, under the guidance of CECS
faculty, or enroll in practicums taught by Jack Wennberg and his associates.
The master's program structure can be customized to reflect students'
professional commitments. As little as one Dartmouth term at a time - ten
weeks - need be spent in Hanover (i.e., on campus). All doctoral students are
admitted to the master's program, subject to transfer of appropriate accrued
credit.
The admissions process involves an application, references, and official
transcripts or the equivalent. Students may apply at any time for the
program, but all students begin in mid-September. Applicants are admitted
until the class (20 people) is filled. Late applicants may be placed on a
waiting list, if they wish.
Detailed information about the program can be obtained by contacting
Patricia Read-Hunter, the Coordinator of Educational Programs, by e-mail or
telephone. Tel. no. (603) 650 1782; e-mail,
patricia.read-hunter@dartmouth.edu.
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6.3 THE CENTER FOR THE EVALUATIVE CLINICAL SCIENCES
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Dartmouth Medical School
Hanover, New Hampshire
The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences houses scientists and
clinician-scholars involved in evaluating some of the most fundamental, but
often overlooked, questions in medicine. The faculty of the CECS is engaged
in measuring how well medical procedures actually work, how to improve the
quality of medical and surgical care, how organizations develop and implement
health care policy, how health care resources are distributed, and how
patients value medical interventions and their consequences.
This work has important implications for medical practice and for medical
economics. At the microeconomic level, it holds the promise of re-forming the
doctor-patient relationship to a model in which informed patients and
physicians make choices in a dynamic partnership. At the macroeconomic level,
the evaluative clinical sciences can provide the sound basis on which
rational policy choices and resource allocations are made.
For the past two decades, John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., director of the
CECS, and other members of the CECS faculty have pioneered the field of
outcomes research. By challenging widely held but often inadequately tested
theories of medical practice, Wennberg and his colleagues have opened a new
national debate on how physicians and patients value medical interventions.
CECS research has shown that a significant proportion of medical
interventions do not have beneficial effects of the magnitude ascribed to
them; more important, CECS investigators have shown that given sufficient
information with which to make an informed choice, patients often choose
different, and more conservative, courses of treatment than their doctors
would prescribe for them. The implications of these findings range from a
reduction in demand for common and expensive medical procedures such as back
surgery and prostatectomy, to the promise of vastly increased satisfaction
with medical care for patients who have been actively involved in the
decision-making process.
A strength of the CECS is the broad range of interests of its investigators.
Current work ranges from studies of care at the end of life to the
distribution of health care resources across hospital market areas, and from
geriatric health to the sociology of medical organizations. Members of the
CECS faculty share an exceptionally collegial, collaborative approach to
identifying and investigating problems in the evaluative clinical sciences,
bringing to bear a wide variety of approaches and methodologies to identify
needs and propose solutions to flaws in the health care delivery system.
With national efforts at reform now underway, there is new emphasis on the
aggregate costs of a system which absorbs an ever-greater share of the gross
domestic product, and new interest in information about effective and
efficient care -- care that is truly desired by patients. For policymakers at
all levels, from community hospitals to the White House, information about
effective and efficient medical care that is actually wanted by patients is
critical to finding solutions to the current crisis.
The CECS offers graduate programs and fellowships in the evaluative clinical
sciences. These programs engage students from a variety of disciplines --
clinicians, administrators, health policy makers -- and provide practical and
immediate help in applying the principles and the findings of the evaluative
clinical sciences to the real world of health care policy and delivery.
The methods and tools of outcomes research, clinical decision-making,
and
health policy are available to students who come to the Center for the
Evaluative Clinical Sciences to participate in the graduate program, and to
the visiting scholars who engage in research activities here before returning
to their home institutions with new knowledge of what is happening in the
health care system and how it can be changed.
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6.4 Journal: Interpersonal Computing and Technology
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From: "Gerald M. Phillips, Ph.D."
Subject: Re: Journal
ANNOUNCING
IPCT
Interpersonal Computing and Technology:
An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century
IPCT: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century is based on
the following premises:
The electronic journal is the wave of the future. By
the year 2000, the bulk of information will be exchanged
electronically and the nature of print media will have
changed drastically.
There are, currently, several barriers to the use of
electronic journals as outlets for scholarly research. These
include: copyright problems, the problem of coordinating
with print publication, and especially the validation of the
electronic journal as a legitimate outlet for dissemination
of scholarly studies, suitable for credit toward promotion and
tenure in colleges and universities.
IPCT: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century will attempt
to address these three concerns.
The journal will be published quarterly in January,
April, September, and December. It will include scholarly
articles, book reviews, think pieces, and announcements.
Each journal issue will be the equivalent of 64 print
pages.
The journal will be coordinated with and issued
through the Interpersonal Computing and Technology
Discussion List, a list maintained, moderated and
operated at Georgetown University. This list will serve
as the initial readership. Subscribers to the list will
be considered charter subscribers. There will be no
charge for the service for the first year. Subscribers
will be urged to comment extensively on content and
format of the journal. After an experimental year,
we will commence library collaboration and may find it
necessary to charge for the service.
CALL FOR ARTICLES AND PAPERS
Please submit full length articles (10-20 pages with
notes and bibliography) done in APA format on the
following topics: use of electronic networks in the
classroom, electronic publishing, use of electronic
networks and information exchange, library applications
of electronic communication, professional relationships
carried on via electronic communication, use of
electronic communication in higher education, business,
industry and government and related topics. Articles may
have a humanistic or social science cast. Technological
articles will be considered to the extent that they are
intelligible to the bulk of the readers and are not
specific to any particular hardware configuration
We regret that, at this time, we will be unable
to use articles which employ pictures and diagrams
and we urge that statistical tables be kept to a minimum.
Our transmission will be in the simplest ASCII format, to
make the journal available to greatest number of
potential subscribers.
We will also consider reviews, approximately eight pages in length,
of books relevant to issues of interest to IPCT-L.
All articles will be given at least two blind reviews and
published articles will be selected by the editors.
In our reviewing process, we will conform to the highest
standards of reviewing used in the best print journals. Our
associate editors (reviewers) will be selected on criteria of
editorial experience and status in their field of expertise.
SEND ALL ARTICLE AND REVIEW SUBMISSIONS IN ASCII USING
A 65 CHARACTER LINE TO; GMP3@PSUVM.BITNET or gmp3@psuvm.psu.edu
(internet).
Since the journal will be distributed by IPCT-L, subscription
to IPCT-L will be necessary for those desiring copies.
TO SUBSCRIBE TO IPCT-L PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
Send the following one-line message in the body of an email message to
LISTSERV@GUVM or LISTSERV@GUVM.GEORGETOWN.EDU
SUBCRIBE IPCT-L YOURFIRSTNAME YOURLASTNAME
Editor: Gerald M. Phillips, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus of Speech
Communication, Pennsylvania State University)
Editorial Board:
Zane L. Berge, Ph.D. (Director, Center for Teaching and Technology.
Academic Computer Center, Georgetown University
Gerald M. Santoro, Ph.D. (Center for Academic Computing, Pennsylvania
State University)
Managing Editor:
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Mauri Collins, M.A. (Senior Consultant, Michigan Consultants Group)
Associate Editors:
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R. Thomas Berner, M.A., (The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA)
Morton Cotlar, Ph.D., (University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HA)
Paulo A. Dasilva, Ph.D. (Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil)
Gordon Dixon, M.Sc., F.B.C.S. (Editor-in-Chief, Literary and
Linguistic Computing, The Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Filip J.R.C. Dochy, Ph.D., University of Heerlen, The Netherlands)
William F. Eadie, Ph.D. (Speech Communication Association, Annandale,
Virginia)
Jill Ellsworth, Ph.D. (Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos,
TX)
Bradley Erlwein, Ph.D. (System Six, Golden, CO)
Mark Evangelista, B.S. (Georgetown University, Washington, DC)
Mark G. Gillingham, Ph.D. (Washington State University, Vancouver, WA)
Dennis S. Gouran, Ph.D. (The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA)
Ken Hirsch, Ph.D. (California State University, Sacramento, CA)
Theodore S. Hopf, Ph.D. (Washington State University, Pullman, WA)
Alice Horning, Ph.D. (Oakland University, Oakland, MI)
Lawrence Johnston, B.A. (American Embassy, Nouakchott, Mauretania)
Vladimir Klonowski, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia)
Donald H. Kraft, Ph.D. (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA)
Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D. (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL)
Scott Kuehn, Ph.D., (Clarion University, Clarion, PA)
Edward A. Mabry, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI)
Cecelia G. Manrique, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse, WI)
Robert McKenzie, Ph.D. (East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg,
PA)
Ann Okerson, MLS (Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC)
David Raitt, Ph.D. (European Space Agency, the Netherlands)
Katy Silberger, MLS (Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY)
David E. Sims, Ph.D. (Atlantic Veterinary College, University of
Prince Edward Island, Canada)
David L. Schroeder. Ph.D. (Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN)
Silvio Stoppoloni, Ph.D., (Csorzion per l'Universita a Distanza,
Rome, Italy)
Janet Valade, Ph.D., (California State University, Los Angeles, CA)
Rosalie Wells, Ph.D. (Athabasca University. Athabasca, Alberta,
Canada)
John W. Wooten, Ph.D. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN)
Nancy J. Wyatt, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University - Delware County
Campus, Media, PA)
GMP@PSUVM
Gerald M. Phillips (Professor Emeritus), Speech Communication
Editor, IPCT: An Electronic Journal for the 21st Century
ISSN 1064-4326
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
Manuscripts are being accepted for the 1994 volume.
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6.5 Cognitive Differences
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From: "Robert D. Canning"
Subject: Psychiatry/psychology
The article I mentioned on the list a few days ago is:
Kingsbury, S.J. (1987). Cognitive differences between clinical
psychologists and psychiatrists. American Psychologist, 42, 152-156.
In the article Dr. Kingsbury discusses several areas of differences
between the two professions: the nature of science (psychologists are
taught to see science as a method, physicians are taught to see it as
a collection of facts); the nature of thought concerning cases
(psychologists are taught to view dis-ease as caused by any one of a
variety of etiologies; physicians are taught the medical model); the
nature of experience (psychologists-in-training attend more classes
and seminars than clinics and the clinical experience is concentrated
in internsships and post-docs; physicians start seeing patients almost
full-time in their third year of med school and continue unabated
through residency).
This is obviously a gross over simplification, but is an attempt to
give you the flavor of the article. It is directed more toward
psychologists than toward physicians, but overall is a good spur for
healthy interdisciplinary discussion.
Robert D. Canning, Ph.D.
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SECTION 7: New Lists
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7.1 Psycho-pharm
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Psychopharmacology Mailing List psycho-pharm@netcom.com
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PURPOSE
The purpose of the Psychopharmacology Mailing List list is to
provide a forum for for the professional discussion of all aspects
of clinical psychopharmacology. Clinical psychopharmacology is
broadly defined as the treatment individuals with psychiatric
disorders through the use of psychotropic medications.
_____________________________________________________________________
SUBSCRIPTION
All mental health professionals, and graduate students may subscribe
to the Psychopharmacology Mailing List. You may subscribe by
sending an e-mail to "listserv@netcom.com. There should be no
subject line. The one line message should be, "subscribe psycho-
pharm ".
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QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about the Psychopharmacology Mailing List,
please contact me at the Internet address below.
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry List
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To join send the message join child-psychiatry firstname lastname
To: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk
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The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry list is dedicated to the
discussion of issues related to this client population.
This discussion list has been set up in response to an increasing
demand for a forum in the area of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry.
It is hoped that professionals and students alike will learn from
each other through open and amicable discussion of current issues
and topics related to this client group. In addition, the sharing
of personal experiences and insights, relevant research findings
and case studies is encouraged (violation of client
confidentiality will not be tolerated on this list).
Psychopharmacology, inpatient/outpatient care,
admission protocols, family treatment and intervention, Child
psychiatric disorders and other topics are also open to discussion.
____________________________________________________________________
All comments and suggestions to:
Amber K. Robey (akrobey@acs.ucalgary.ca)
University of Calgary, Canada.
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SECTION 8: Advertisements from those Seeking Placements
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J. D. O'BRIEN, Ph. D., 119 S.Park Ridge Road #7 Bloomington, IN 47408
Tel: (812) 336-5602
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Ph.D. social scientist, multi-disciplinary and cross cross
disciplinary training and experience desires immediate position
anywhere world-wide related to the broad topic of cross-cultural or
ethnic mental health differences and applications. Degrees in
psychology, anthropology and sociology/social psychology. 30 years
combined teaching, research and administrative/consulting experience.
Basic research interests in consciousness, self, identity, cross-
cultural interaction, applied mental health, substance abuse and
deviant behaviors. Recent Ph.D in 1991. Strong computer application
skills, strong field work skills with past research in Canada,
Ireland, Latin America, the United States: urban and rural
environments. Additional study and area training in European, Asian
and African cultures. Will relocate for appropriate opportunity.
Available due to U.S. funding cutbacks and shut down of post-doctoral
research program in emotions/identity research. If interested, please
contact John O'Brien (812 336-5602 or INTERNET
PO% JOBRIEN@UCS.INDIANA.EDU or write to 119 S. Park Ridge Road,
Bloomington, Indiana USA 47408)
SPECIAL INTERESTS . . . stress, emotions, control models,
neuropsychological models, consciousness, cognition and symbolism.
EDUCATION:
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Ph. D. KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, Kent, OH.
1991 (Sociology and Anthropology)
M. A. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS at AMHERST,
Amherst, MA. (Ethnology).
A. B. LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMERICAS, Cholula,
Puebla, Mexico (Psychology).
POST DEGREE EDUCATION:
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NIMH post-doctoral training fellowship: program in the Measurement of
Affect and Affective Processes, Dept. of Sociology, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405.
Doctoral Studies: UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles)
(Anthropology, all but dissertation).
Graduate exchange scholar: The University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, California;(tutorials in Psychological Anthropology and
Peasant Studies, Language and Behavior Laboratory, Department
of Anthropology).
Post M.A. studies: Communications, The University of Massachusetts -
Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts.
Post B.A. studies: Anthropology, la Universidad de las Americas,
Mexico.
DISSERTATION TOPIC:
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The Problem of Order: Empirical Tests of a Holographic Minimum Unit
Model Linking Culture, Cognition-emotion and Social Action in
Substance Abuse Decision-making. Ann Arbor: UMI (ON 9200536).
APPOINTMENTS
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TEACHING:
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1995 Research Associate, Indiana University -
Bloomington, Bloomington, IN (Anthropology).
1994 Visiting Asst. Professor, Indiana University -
Bloomington,Bloomington, IN (Anthropology).
1993 Instructor, Indiana University Purdue-
Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN (Sociology).
1991 Instructor, Lakeland Community College,
Mentor, OH (Social Studies).
1989-1991 Auxiliary Faculty: the University of Akron,
Akron, OH (Sociology).
1989-1991 Instructor, Cuyahoga Community College West,
Parma, OH (Sociology).
1989 Instructor part-time, Kent State University,
Kent, OH (Sociology).
1986-1988 Teaching Fellow, Kent State University, Kent,
OH (Sociology).
1986 Instructor, Kent State University, Kent, OH
(Anthropology).
1985-1986 Instructor, Youngstown State University,
Youngstown, OH (Sociology, Anthropology and
Social Work).
1975 Instructor, California State University
Northridge, Northridge, CA
(Behavioral Sciences).
1974 Teaching Associate, The University of Massachu-
setts at Amherst, Amherst, MA (Communications
and Theater).
NON ACADEMIC AND APPLIED:
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1967 to date - Consultant, applied social science consulting
to business and government.
1965 to 1967 - Sr. Coordinator, Advertising Services
Division,Young & Rubicam, Inc., New York, New
York.
1962 to 1963 - Programmer-analyst Navy Department, Bureau of
Naval Weapons, Washington, D. C.
CONSULTING AND CONTRACT:
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Assisted in technology assessment and impact analyses for low
technology alternative economy options with an independent California
research group.
Assisted in the update of the Europe 2000 long range socioeconomic
forecast for a major Washington research and consulting firm.
Acted as project leader in research and development for a
New York based international advertising agency's marketing,
analysis and research operations.
Supervised professional and doctoral staff.
Managed a marketing information computer application for a major
California University Extension, including staff and personnel
supervision, user and community liaison.
Supervised staff in the development of a major New York city based
marketing analysis and research project for an independent media and
marketing research firm.
Acted as CEO for a not-for-profit California charitable organization:
fund-raised, managed, administered grants, developed public relations
and promotions, supervised personnel and managed community relations.
Developed main-frame and distributed personal computer feasibility
studies for a Mid-Western State University's administrative systems
division.
Consulted to a major California aero-space business and
administrative systems division for internal policies and procedures,
data processing applications, et al.
Assisted in the development of the New York Stock Exchange's computer
clearing-house methods, procedures and EDP operations.
Developed computer word-processing, record keeping and hardware
feasibility studies in the legal profession.
Contract programmer, NASA - Launch Operations Center - Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
Consulted to Motel industry for business development and business
reorganization.
Fund raised for an Eastern Public Interest organization.
RESEARCH
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Basic research into social psychological and general theory
development in cultural, cognitive, symbolic, emotional and decision-
making control systems.
Applied research in needs assessments and recreational planning for
I.D.C., Inc. and the County of Santa Barbara, CA.
Applied research in long range socio-economic forecasting: (Europe
and North America) on contract with a major Arlington, VA independent
research agency.
Applied advertising and marketing research for a major New York City
based international advertising agency.
Field research on decision-making in energy utilization, socio-
economics and urban redevelopment.
Field research in Ireland and Quebec for oral history and culture
change studies for the National Museum of Man, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada.
Field research for ethnological and linguistic research in Guerrero,
Mexico.
PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS
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Heise, David R. and O'Brien, John D. 1993. "Emotion in Groups,"
Chapter 34, Section IV in Michael Lewis and Jeannette Haviland (Eds.)
The Handbook of Emotions. New York: Guilford Publications.
O'Brien, John D. (forthcoming). "Pervasive Culture and Variable
Meaning." Journal of Mathematical Sociology (TBA).
----------. (submitted ms.). "Stress and Identity Theory:
Inferences of Higher Order Control Functions."
----------. (submitted ms.). "The Reality of Cultural Integration:
A Constrained Unitary Strategy.
----------. (submitted ms.). "Construct Realism: A Developmental
Model.
----------. (submitted ms.). "Cultural Predispositions to Economic
Failures."
----------. (submitted ms.). "Urban Life Satisfaction: Towards a
Structuralist Hypothesis"
----------. (in progress). Culture, Cause and Order: A Holographic
Paradigm (Final Title TBA). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen
Press.
----------. 1992. "The Issue of Culture." Newsletter of the
Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological
Association. 7(1): 14-15.
----------. 1987. "The Irish Value: An Analysis of Conflict
and Dual Social Structure in the 1800's." (unpublished seminar
paper: the University of Akron).
----------. 1986. "Contemporary Community: On the Relevance
of Classical Theory." (unpublished seminar paper: the University
of Akron - in conjunction with David J.O'Brien).
----------. 1982. "Assimilation Theory and Celtic Ethnicity."
Research notes in Current Anthropology, 23(2):196.
----------. 1976. "Development Economics: Suggestions for New
Research Paradigms."(unpublished research report: The university
of California Los Angeles).
----------. 1975a. "Peten: Prehistoric Archaeological Site
Prediction Techniques." Latin American Research Review 10(2):197-
200.
----------. 1975b."Systemic Effects of Inheritance
Processes in Northern Spain." Research notes in Current
Anthropology 16(4):666.
----------. 1974. "Art and Anthropology: Possibilities in
Symbolism and Communications."(unpublished seminar paper: The
University of Massachusetts - Amherst).
----------. 1970. Xalitla, Guerrero: An Ethnography.
(unpublished seminar report: la Universidad de las Americas,
Mexico, D. F., Mexico).
----------. 1969. "Chan Kom and Chan Kom Revisited: An
Analysis of Redfield's Folk-Urban Continuum." (unpublished
seminar paper: la Universidad de las Americas, Mexico).
O'Brien, John D. and Susan K. O'Brien. 1978. The Hidden Immigrant:
Cross-cultural Perspectives On North American Ethnicity. Ottowa,
Canada: Archives, National Museum of Man, Center for Folk-cultural
Studies.
ADDENDUM
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COMMUNITY SERVICE:
volunteer: Ceramic City Senior Citizen's Center, East Liverpool, OH..
volunteer: Children's and Community Theater, Santa Barbara Playhouse,
Santa Barbara, CA.
volunteer: Sacred Heart Center, Youngstown, OH.
volunteer: I.D.C., Inc., community service organization, Board
of Directors, Montecito, CA.
ASSOCIATIONS:
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I.S.A. invitational working group on theory and theory development
Associate: Current Anthropology (past)
American Sociological Association (past)
American Anthropological Association (past)
North Central Sociological Association (past)
HONORS & AWARDS:
1990 Research Fellow, Graduate College, K. S. U., Kent, OH.
1989 Research Fellow, Graduate College, K. S. U., Kent, OH.
1964-1965 Dean's Honors, La Universidad de las Americas, Mexico.
member - PI GAMMA MU - International Social Science
honorary.
member - ALPHA KAPPA DELTA - Social Science honorary.
member - PSI CHI - Psychology honorary.
member - Tau Kappa Epsilon (Alpha Beta)
ADDITIONAL:
bi-lingual: English-Spanish
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SECTION 9: Calls for Collaborators
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MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION VIA GOPHER:
AN ANNOUNCEMENT AND A REQUEST FOR COLLABORATION
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The counselling Center at the State University of New York at
Buffalo (USA) has begun a project using the Internet as a vehicle for
disseminating mental health information to the public. I would like
to let all of you know of this service, as well as (if you are
interested) suggest a collaborative effort.
Background
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The information we are making available to the public uses the
capabilities of "gopher." For those of you unfamiliar with "gopher"
it is a widely used menu-driven method of information retrieval on the
internet. There are instructions below on how to use "gopher" to
access the information we are making available. Our material includes
documents, brochures, workshop outlines, handouts, reading lists, and
referral suggestions on a wide variety of topics such as
"relationships", "sexual abuse", "sexual assault", "substance abuse",
"time-management", "anxiety", "adjusting to college life". There is
even a "quotes-file" containing mental health related quotes, both
profound (?) and humorous. In addition to these text-based materials,
we hope to be making mental health software available. We're also
interested in hearing from users, and so there is an email account set
up to get feedback & suggestions from
people (dgthomas@wings.buffalo.edu).
We're hoping to make available a wealth of mental-health information
and resources, in a way that is easily accessible and anonymous. This
is the decade of the computer network, and it is important that we
take advantage of that technology. We want to provide an alternative
means of accessing useful mental-health & quality of life information,
information people might be reluctant to seek out if it required a
face-to-face contact with a counsellor.
Requesting your participation
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At present, all of the information we are providing is "in-house" --
that is, it consists of materials *we* have created over the years
(e.g., handouts, brochures). But we want this to be much more than
UB-specific -- ideally we would like to serve as a *clearing
house* of information that comes from *all over the world*.
So, this is a request for your input. We are looking for information
that might be useful to the general public (students or otherwise).
If you have resources (text, software, etc) that you would like to
make more widely available in a centralized fashion, please contact
me. Your items can be added to the UB gopher menu, and then anyone on
the internet can have easy access to them. (nb. Even if you do not
want your material at the UB gopher, we would be interested in
including information *about* your materials (e.g., ftp-able files,
other gophers, etc) and how to access them).
This is a *very* new project for us, and much of the material we have
remains to be uploaded. As a result, there are numerous topics that
are sorely lacking on our system, and other topics that are entirely
absent. Sexuality and diversity are examples of areas needing much
work.
Accessing UB's gopher
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Steps for accessing our information (your system must have gopher)
1. enter the following at your prompt (no quotes, note
spacing!): "gopher wings.buffalo.edu"
2. at the main menu, select "Student Life and Services"
3. then select counselling Center"
You can contact me at dgthomas@acsu.buffalo.edu. I'm very interested
in any suggestions/feedback/criticism/comments you might have.
David Gilles-Thomas, Ph.D.
dgthomas@acsu.buffalo.edu
Counseling Center, State University of New York at Buffalo
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SECTION 10: Job Vacancies
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From: P McGhee (xoct302@derbyshire.ac.uk)
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 10:23:13 +0100
10.1 Lectureships - University of Derby
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Applications are invited for two lectureships/senior lectureships in
Psychology at the UNIVERSITY of DERBY in the Division of Psychology.
Applications are invited from Psychology graduates who hold (or will soon
possess) a D Phil/Phd in Psychology.
Applications will be accepted from psychologists specializing in any area
of the discipline.
There are no application forms. Applicants should send a brief letter of
application, a current CV, the names of two referees, and copies of
any publications/thesis chapters/conference papers as appropriate to:
PSYCHOLOGY POSTS, Lesley Gyford, Personnel Services, University of Derby,
Kedleston Rd, Derby DE22, (tel 0332 622222 x1035) from whom further details
can also be obtained.
Informal enquiries to Dr Patrick McGhee, Head of Psychology, tel 0332 622222
x2841/ Division of Psychology, Mickleover Campus, Western Rd, Derby DE3.
email: p.mcghee@uk.ac.derby.
EMAIL APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED.
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CLOSING DATE: 12 July 1994
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10.2 Find a Job via the Internet
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You can browse and search through a database of job advertisements in
all disciplines and from all over the USA and Canada through the
following resource which is updated daily:
Gopher:
Name: Msen
Address: garnet.msen.com 9062
Choose: Search Jobs