Donald K. Routh,
Ph.D., ABPP, President, 1998-2002
REPORT TO THE
BOARD, June 30, 2002
From what I have
been able to learn, Division 6 had operated in the past by having the new
President-elect simply appointed by the outgoing President at the end of each
President's four-year term. Thus, Fanny
Cheung appointed me as President-elect in 1994 in Madrid, and Victoria del
Barrio appointed Manolete Moscoso as President-elect in 1998 in San
Francisco. My belief is that the Division
was for the most part an organization in name only, since most of the members
did not know each other personally; it had no other officers besides the President-elect,
President, and Past President; and its only activity was preparing for the next
ICAP each four years.
In order to
improve the situation, I founded an affiliated organization, the International
Society of Clinical Psychology (ISCP), in San Francisco in 1998. This group
approved its bylaws, elected officers each year, published a quarterly
newsletter, and met each year since its founding. It met in Salem, Massachusetts in 1999 (in conjunction with the
meeting there of the International Council of Psychologists), in Stockholm in
2000 (in conjunction with the IUPsyS meeting there), and in London in 2001 (in
conjunction with the ICP once more). It
is meeting in Singapore in conjunction with the ICAP this year and has joint
programs with IAAP Division 6. Besides
the newsletter (the International Clinical Psychologist), the ISCP has an
official link to the Journal of Clinical Psychology, published by Wiley.
In 2002 Division
6 held what I believe was its first full-fledged election. The nominations committee (del Barrio,
Routh, and Moscoso) solicited nominations by mail from all of the members for
President-elect and Secretary-Treasurer and sent out election ballots by mail
also. These ballots were returned in
due course. Meanwhile, Moscoso found it
necessary to resign his office (President-elect) because he is unable to attend
the ICAP meeting in Singapore. Thus, at
the suggestion of Charles Spielberger, IAAP President, the winner and the
runner-up of the Division 6 election for President-elect become in 2002
President and President-elect. They
are: Juan Jose Sanchez-Sosa, of Mexico, and Lynn P. Rehm, of the USA. Similarly, at Spielberger's suggestion, the
winner and runner-up of the election for Secretary-Treasurer become in 2002
Treasurer (Gloria Gottsegen, USA) and Secretary (Susan Frauenglass Swierc, USA)
of Division 6.
Thus, the Singapore meeting should find
Division 6 a more unified and
cohesive
organization than it was four years ago.