Women's Issues in Rehabilitation Psychology
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April 7, 2005, the Executive Committee of Division
22 approved the formation of a section designed
to address issues faced by women as providers,
pre-service students and supervisees, colleagues,
and consumers of Rehabilitation Psychology.
The section will provide professional support
for women who identify as Rehabilitation Psychologists
in two ways. First, women will be supported
through a formal network that exists to aid
their promotion and advancement of women from
student status through administration and governance
in Rehabilitation Psychology. Second, the section
will make training and information crucial to
learning and success in Rehabilitation Psychology
consistently and freely available to women in
the interest of supporting and advancing their
professional growth. Purposes of the Section
include:
* Develop and expand education and training
on women, across the lifespan, as providers
and recipients of Rehabilitation Psychology,
through mentoring, meetings, conferences, conference
sessions, and the preparation and publication
of technical and professional manuals, reports,
guides, etc., pertaining to a broad range of
women’s issues within Rehabilitation Psychology,
* Promote approaches and practices integral
to the unique historical and future development
of women's perspective in healthcare and rehabilitation.
* Develop professional literature to reflect
cutting edge and other significant research
pertinent to women in Rehabilitation Psychology,
supported and encouraged by the Section membership
and leadership,
* Coordinate efforts with other Sections of
the Division of Rehabilitation Psychology, other
divisions (e.g., the Society for the Psychology
of Women), other divisional sections addressing
women’s issues in psychology (e.g., the
Division of Counseling Psychology’s Section
for the Advancement of Women, the Society of
Clinical Psychology’s Section on the Clinical
Psychology of Women), the American Psychological
Association’s Committee on the Psychology
of Women, and relevant other organizations (e.g.,
the Association for Women in Psychology),
* Work toward formulating, refining, interpreting,
and promoting practice standards and ethical
principles and practices that are consistent
with the Bylaws and Rules of APA and the Division
of Rehabilitation Psychology for all psychologists
who work with women, and
* Promotion of public and professional awareness
of women’s issues in Rehabilitation Psychology.
* To promote research on the specific needs
of female consumers of rehabilitation services
during all phases of the rehabilitation process
especially in those areas where their needs
are very different from those of male consumers,
and to promote the dissemination of this information
in both professional psychology journals and
the journals of other involved disciplines.
* To educate professionals working with female
consumers both as patients and primary caretakers,
regarding specific and different continuing
needs of this population.
* To promote attitude change toward women in
rehabilitation both as professionals and as
consumers and to afford them the same dignity
and opportunities as males.
The Section held its first meeting on April
8, 2005 to begin the nominations process for
officers. Elections took place in the fall of
2005.
A special thanks goes to Drs. Kathleen Brown,
Janet Niemeyer, Martha E. Banks, and Rochelle
Balter for the development of the bylaws for
the Section on Women’s Issues in Rehabilitation
Psychology. Formation of the section involved
extensive discussion among approximately one
dozen members of Division 22 from August 2004
through April 2005. More than 30 Division 22
members provided endorsements for the Section,
which was approved unanimously by the Division
22 Executive Board on April 7, 2005.
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