The InterPsych Newsletter 2(5)
IPN 2(5) Section G: Announcements
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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5 THE INTERPSYCH NEWSLETTER JUNE,1995
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SECTION G: ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC POLICY, AND LAW
2. CONNECTED COMPUTER SYMPOSIUM AT CAPE COD INSTIUTE, JULY
24-28, 1995
3. NEUROCASE - CALL FOR PAPERS
4. DOWN'S SYNDROME: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
5. CALL FOR PAPERS - CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
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1. PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC POLICY, AND LAW
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This journal is an official law review at a small consortium of
law schools (currently consisting of the University of Arizona
College of Law and the University of Miami School of Law), and is
published quarterly (March, June, Sept, Dec) by the American
Psychological Association.
For subscription information, contact the Subscriptions
Department, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street,
NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242. TELEPHONE: 202-336-5500.
EDITOR
BRUCE SALES, Department of Psychology and College of Law,
University of Arizona
PSYCHOLOGY, PUBLIC POLICY, AND LAW focuses on the links between
psychology as a science, relevant information derived from
related disciplines as sciences (hereinafter psychology), and
public policy and law. It will publish articles that
-critically evaluate the actual and potential contributions of
psychology to public policy and legal issues,
-assess the desirability of different public policy and legal
alternatives in light of the scientific knowledge base in
psychology,
-articulate research needs that address public policy and legal
issues for which there is currently insufficient theoretical and
empirical knowledge, and
-examine public policy and legal issues relating to the conduct
of psychology and of related disciplines where relevant to
psychology.
The journal explicitly encourages submission by scholars of
theoretical, conceptual, and critical reviews dealing with
psychology and with relevant information derived from related
disciplines, law, and policy studies. Lengths of submitted
manuscripts can exceed 75 pages, because the journal encourages
authors to write comprehensive pieces, rather than submitting
smaller pieces to multiple journals. Manuscripts can be written
in law review or APA style.
The journal will not routinely serve as an outlet for
primary reports of empirical research, although it encourages the
submission of articles that present the results of empirical
research that make a substantial contribution to public policy
and law. Such articles will typically consist of reports of a
programmatic series of empirical studies or report on the results
of large-scale multijurisdictional or longitudinal research.
Anyone who is interested in discussing ideas for articles or
for special issues of the journal should feel free to contact the
Editor, Bruce D. Sales, PhD, JD, at the journal office:
(Internet)pppl@ccit.arizona.edu; (Telephone)520-621-8767;
(Fax)520-621-3105.
GOALS FOR JOURNAL
TO PROVIDE A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FORUM FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND
INTERCHANGE;
TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR THE PUBLICATION OF COMPREHENSIVE,
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES THAT CRITICALLY CONSIDER THEORETICAL,
CONCEPTUAL, AND DOCTRINAL ISSUES OR THAT CRITICALLY REVIEW THE
LITERATURE RELEVANT TO THE MISSION OF THE JOURNAL; AND
TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR THE PUBLICATION OF COMPREHENSIVE,
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES THAT REPORT THE RESULTS OF PROGRAMS OF
RESEARCH OR LARGE-SCALE EMPIRICAL STUDIES RELEVANT TO THE MISSION
OF THE JOURNAL.
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2. CONNECTED COMPUTER SYMPOSIUM AT CAPE COD INSTIUTE, JULY
24-28, 1995
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I want to inform you know about a week-long symposium I have
organized on the topic of the "Connected Computer". It will take
place during the week of July 24-28,1995 on Cape Cod in
Massachusetts. Contact information is at the end of this
message.
The symposium brings together a multidisciplinary faculty of
twelve (See faculty list below) to review what is happening on
the Internet, the online services and the BBSs that pertains to
mental health.
I expect some will attend in order to find out about the basics
of the online phenomenon, how to enter into it and how it will
impact on their professional lives. I also expect more
experienced people to attend, like the members of this list who
will be more interested in exchanging ideas and information (and
perhaps meeting people face-to-face known previously only through
electronic means). The program will be organized to acccomodate
the needs and interests of both groups.
Sessions will be held during the morning hours of July 24-28,
leaving the remainder of each day free for leisure and study.
Complete details are on the WWW Page of the Cape Cod Institute of
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at
(http://www.netaxis.com/cape/). The page also describes some
twenty other offerings of the 1995 Cape Cod Institute.
SYMPOSIUM FACULTY
1. Jim Baumbach Co-founder of Panix, one of the first public
access sites and a leading provider of Internet connections.
2. Ivan Goldberg M.D. Founder of PsyComNet, an international
teleconferencing service; a director of InterPsych; member
of the psychiatry faculty at Columbia University.
3. Jenifer Grady M.S.L.S. National Network of Libraries of
Medicine, New York Academy of Medicine.
4. Stacy Horn. Founder of ECHO, a private bulletin board
service in New York City, adjunct assistant professor in the
interactive television program at the Tisch School of NYU,
author of The Electronic Mask, forthcoming from Warner
Books.
5. Michael Hurst Ed.D. President of Instream Inc., former vice
president of AmericanPsychManagement (now Value Behavioral
Health), associate professor of psychiatry (psychology) at
Boston University.
6. Gilbert Levin Ph.D. Professor of epidemiology and social
medicine and of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein college of
Medicine, Founder/Director of the Cape Cod Institute and of
the doctoral program in health psychology.Symposium Chair.
7. Paul Levinson Ph.D. President of Connected Education Inc.,
senior faculty member in media studies at the New School for
Social Research, author and social theorist.
8. Robert Lippincott Vice President for content and publishing
services of Interchange Online Network, president of the
Interactive Multimedia Association, recognized expert in
multimedia and interactive technologies.
9. Steven Locke M.D. Assistant professor of psychiatry at
Harvard University, director of computers in psychiatry in
the clinical computing center at Beth Israel Hospital in
Boston.
10. Elizabeth Margoshes Ph.D. A clinical psychologist in
private practice and host of the psychology, love, and
biosphere conferences on ECHO.
11. Marvin Miller M.D. Assistant professor of psychiatry at
Indiana University, writer and lecturer on computing in
mental health, founder of the Testing Station, an Internet
site for mental health software.
12. Matthew Simpson Graduate student at the University of
Ottawa, intern at McLean Hospital, chair of the American
Psychological Association of Graduate Students and founder
of the PSYCGRAD Project.
A hard copy of the complete course catalogue can be obtained from
my office at the Cape Cod Institute, Room 1308E-Belfer Buiding,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461. Voice
phone to Carol: 718-430-2307.
Or just send me an email message and I will have one sent to you.
Also direct any questions or comments about either the Connected
Computer Symposium or the Cape Cod Institute to me directly at:
GLEVIN@NETAXIS.COM.
Gilbert Levin Ph.D.
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3. NEUROCASE - CALL FOR PAPERS
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If you have tried to publish a case study recently, you may have
found that many of the major journals have begun to discourage
such reports, as individual results are seen as offering limited
information. When looked at in conjunction with other single
case studies though, it is possible to draw vital conclusions
from the information gathered.
These are some of the reasons why Neurocase is being launched in
April 1995 by Oxford University Press. Neurocase will publish
high quality original case studies, as well as carefully vetted
replication studies. These will be entered, together with data
from case studies published elsewhere, into an accumulative
CD-ROM database which will be issued with the journal. By
publishing in this way, information from these reports will
become an accessible and manageable body of knowledge.
By publishing in Neurocase you will reach a huge audience right
from the start - throughout 1995 we will be sending Neurocase
free of charge to the thousands of institutions worldwide which
subscribe to Brain.
If you would like to submit a paper, please send 4 copies to:
Editorial Office, Neurocase, University Department of Neurology,
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK. Tel:
+44 (0) 1223 217837 Fax: +44 (0) 1223 336951 E-mail:
jrh24@phx.cam.ac.uk
If you would like to receive a free sample copy on publication,
instructions for authors, or an order form, please write to
Journals Marketing Department (IP95), Oxford University Press,
Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 865 56767 Fax:
+44 (0) 865 267782. E-mail: jnlorders@oup.co.uk
Editors: Ian H Robertson (Cambridge, UK), John R Hodges
(Cambridge, UK), and H Branch Coslette (Philadelpia, USA).
Editorial Board: Elizabeth Warrington (London, UK), Alfonso
Caramazza (Hannover, USA), Tim Shallice (London, UK), Kenneth
Heilman (Gainesville,USA), Karalyn Patterson (Cambridge, UK), Max
Coltheart (Sydney, Australia), Eleanor Saffran (Philadelphia,
USA), Robert Robinson (Iowa City, USA), Sumiko Sasanuma (Tokyo,
Japan), Hirotaka Tanabe (Osaka, Japan), Howard Chertkow
(Montreal, Canada), Marlene Behrman (Pittsburgh, USA), Michael
Kopelman (London, UK), Stefano Cappa (Brescia, Italy), Richard
TegnThetar (Stockholm, Sweden), Claus Wallesch (Magdeburg,
Germany), Eric Caine (New York, USA), Charles Kellner (Carolina,
USA), Thierry Deonna (Lausanne, Switzerland).
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4. DOWN'S SYNDROME: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
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Thank you to all who replied to our recent call for papers for
the journal Down's syndrome: Research and Practice. Due to the
large response, we are sending further information via e-mail.
The journal is peer reviewed and as it is a new publication,
has a rapid turn around of papers. Authors usually receive
referee reports within 2 months and papers are printed within
6 months of acceptance.
GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
The aim of the journal is to disseminate research and good
practice to parents and practitioners focusing on the
development and well-being of children with Down's syndrome
and their families and to provide a forum for exchange of
information.
To this end we welcome contributions including original
research papers, discussions of the implications of research
for practice, descriptions and discussions of the influence of
the law and social policy on practice and descriptions of
innovations in service delivery.
We particularly invite contributions from teachers, speech and
language and other therapists describing innovations in
practice, including single case descriptions. We invite
researchers to publish short papers drawing out the practical
implications of research which may have been published in full
elsewhere. As well as the main papers, there will be an
abstracts section and information on conferences and courses.
We will be happy to advise whether your article, or other
contribution, may be appropriate for the Journal.
SUBMITTING PAPERS
Papers for inclusion in the Journal should be sent to the
Editor at the Sarah Duffen Centre. Please send four copies of
your manuscript, which should be typewritten and double-spaced
on A4 paper, with any tables or illustrations. At the same
time, please submit your article on a 3= inch disc in PC
format. Please ensure your file is saved as a Microsoft Word,
Word for Windows version 2.0 (the application we use);
Wordperfect 5.0 or 5.1; or as a plain text ASCII file. If
you are using a different computer, or have any other
problems, please contact Nick Egerton at the Sarah Duffen
Centre. We have to ask you for a disc as it is an important
method of keeping production costs, and therefore the
subscription price, low. Disks will be returned. Please ensure
that your address is attached and, where possible, include
direct telephone numbers, fax numbers and electronic mail
addresses.
Articles will be considered for publication on the
understanding that they are original papers. However the
Journal will welcome articles, or notes, which consider the
implications of research or ideas published elsewhere.
Research papers will be considered for publication even though
the research methodology is not described in the paper,
provided that the paper clearly indicates where a full
description of the methodology adopted can be obtained and
this has been made available to the paper's referees.
All articles will be refereed by at least one person chosen by
the Editor. All submissions will be editorially reviewed with
particular regard for comprehensibility to a wide range of
professions and parents. If the referees and reviewers
recommend publication of an article, but suggest amendments to
it, the person submitting the paper will be invited to
consider those changes before a final decision to publish is
made. The Editor reserves the right to edit notes, reports and
other submissions when printing and publishing timetables make
consultation with authors difficult.
PRESENTATION
The suggested title should appear on the first page of the
manuscript followed by the name(s), title(s) and affiliations
of the author(s). Articles should be preceded by an abstract
or summary of up to 300 words. All papers should be in English
and spellings should be English rather than American.
Sub-headings are encouraged, and should be typed in bold. If
sub-headings are of different sizes, please indicate clearly.
Please do not indent paragraphs, but use two double-spaces
between paragraphs. One space should be left after a full-
stop. Quotations of about 20 words or more should be placed
on a new line. Within articles they will be printed in a
smaller typeface, or italics, so quotation marks are not
necessary. Footnotes will not be printed. The material being
considered for a footnote should appear in the text or be
treated as a reference. Bibliographical references within the
text should be made by citing the surnames of up to two
authors and the date of publication, for example (Hodgkinson,
1990), (Dent and Stephenson, 1979) or (Loftus et al., 1989).
The letters a, b, c, etc. should be added, after the year, to
distinguish references to books or articles by the same
author(s) in the same year. References to legislation should
be made in the text, for example (Mental Health Act 1983,
s.1). Where a quotation is used, or the text refers to a
specific part of a book, article, or similar, then the
reference in the text should include the relevant page number.
Diagrams, illustrations and tables must be submitted in a
form, and of a standard, that they may be photographed and
printed directly. These, and the place in the text where it is
recommended that they should appear, should be clearly
identified.
TERMINOLOGY
As this is an international and an inter-disciplinary journal
the needs of readers from different backgrounds should be born
in mind. Technical or other terms specific to a particular
discipline should be avoided if possible; otherwise discrete
explanations or a glossary might be added. Abbreviations, such
as of journal titles, should be avoided.
Authors should avoid the use of potentially devaluing
terminology for people with learning disability. The terms
'children with a developmental disability' or 'with
moderate/severe learning difficulties' are acceptable. The
terms 'mental handicap' and 'mental retardation' are not. The
term 'Down's syndrome' should be written in full, and
'syndrome' spelt with a small 's' except when in a title.
Please refer to 'children with Down's syndrome' rather than
'Down's syndrome children'.
GLOSSARY
Where technical terminology is used, please provide a glossary
before the references.
REFERENCES
A full list of bibliographical references, cited in the text,
should appear at the end of the paper. The list should be in
alphabetical order by author's surname(s). Entries should
adopt the following conventions.
Articles:
Hitch,G.J., Halliday,S., Schaafstal,A.M. & Schragen,J.M.C.
(1988). Visual working memory in young children. Memory and
Cognition, 16, 120-132.
Chapters:
Bellugi,U. & Siple,P. (1974). Remembering with and without
words. In F. Bresson Current Problems in Psycholinguistics,
pp. 215-236. Paris: Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique.
Books:
Carroll,J.B., Davies,P. & Richman,B. (1971). The Word
Frequency Book. New York: American Heritage.
Dunn,L.M. & Dunn,L.M. (1982). British Picture Vocabulary
Scale. Windsor: NFER-NELSON.
Light, P. (1985). The development of view-specific
representation considered from a socio-cognitive standpoint.
In N.H. Freeman (Ed.), Visual Order: The Nature and
Development of Pictorial Representation, pp. 214-230.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
For more information, contact: Sarah Duffen Centre, Department
of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, Belmont Street,
Southsea, Hants, PO5 1NA, UK
Tel: 01705 824261 Fax: 01705 824265
e-mail: buckleys@csovax.portsmouth.ac.uk
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5. CALL FOR PAPERS - CLINICAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
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In 1996 SAGE Publications will be launching Clinical Child
Psychology and Psychiatry - a major, new journal to bring
together clinically oriented work of the highest distinction from
an international and multidisciplinary perspective. Clinical
Child Psychology and Psychiatry will provide a high quality forum
for papers which focus on clinical and therapeutic aspects of
child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry.
Themes from the first Volume will include:
* Domestic violence and post-traumatic stress disorder
* Art therapy for sexually abused children
* An innovative programme for chronic fatigue syndrome
* The treatment of obese children
* The interface between research and clinical practice
* Ethics of new treatments
* Private and professional selves
* Psychosocial treatments for HIV positive children
* Working with parents of children with severe learning
difficulties
* Disasters and post-traumatic stress disorder
* Mirrored grief between families and therapy teams
Contributions should be sent to: Dr Bryan Lask, Department of
Psychologal Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond
Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK
If you would like further details please contact Jane Makoff
(makoff@sageltd.co.uk).