Presidential Initiatives

• As APA President I will bring an optimistic excitement to my presidential year and do all that I can do to create positive energy to help bring all Psychology together to build the strongest future for our field.
• As APA President I will focus my term on the theme of  “Celebrating our Past, Enjoying our Present, and Building Psychology's Future: Educating Psychologists for Science, Practice and Serving the Public.”

• I believe that this theme:
  • Reflects the historical basis of our collective pride in being psychologists --- we are all one "Family of Psychology".
  • Focuses on today's necessary advocacy activities in which we all must engage to assure a vibrant, enjoyable, and successful professional life - today and tomorrow.
  • Will bring together all psychologists toward our common goals based upon our collective past and our shared vision for our future.
  • Challenges us to carry out the planning we must do to ensure that we build the best future we can build for Psychology
    
• To accomplish my goals as President, I will appoint three task forces:
  • To build Psychology's future, I will appoint the “Task Force on Public Health and Health Policy: Opportunities For Psychologists in Practice, Research, Advocacy, and Public Service”;
  • To address critical current needs, I will appoint the “Task Force on Ensuring Healthy Psychologists and a Healthy Profession: Balancing Work and Personal Life”;
  • To celebrate Psychology's past, I will appoint the “Task Force on Recognizing Ourselves, Our Leaders, and Our Diversity Throughout the History of Psychology: The Family of Psychology”  [including building an "online family tree" to illustrate how we are all professionally related and highlighting in that family tree our diversity communities and their place in the history of Psychology].