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Business Meeting Agenda
Division 17 Supervision and Training Special Interest Group
Sunday, August 22, 1999
Division 17 Hospitality Suite (A)
Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers

1. Introductions
2. Report on the Membership
3. Discussion Topics
A. How the CTS SIG can serve the membership
B. Election Committee?
C. Practice Issues
D. Research Issues
E. Future Activities
F. APA 2000
4. Close

Minutes of the Meeting

1:00 - 2:00 PM Sunday, August 22, 1999

Present: Louise Douce, Mike Ellis (Chair), Lynn Lupini, Ken Opanchinski,
Loreto Prieto, Debbie Renard, Joan Rosenberg, Ed Watkins, Frank Wong,
Lillian Wong

(1) The meeting was called to order at approximately 1:00 PM and
introductions were made.

(2) Mike reported on membership. Based on the Listserv count the SIG has
77 members on the listserv and has had over 500 hits on the CTS website.

(3) A. Mike solicited ideas regarding how the SIG could best serve its
membership. Discussion centered around several points.

A1. Moving the SIG toward its development into an official Section of
Division 17 was discussed. Louise suggested that the SIG consult with
Rod Goodyear, Division 17 Vice-President for Education and Training as
to the particulars involved with making the transition to Section.
Continuing to increase our membership in the SIG was discussed as well.
Plans were made to contact various relevant APA Divisions, service
agencies (e.g., APPIC) and student groups (e.g., Division 17 SAG and
APAGS), and through their respective Newsletters to make them aware of
the existence of the SIG and to encourage their participation in the
SIG. Additional discussion centered around such issues as developing
detailed by-laws and other necessary tasks that would come along with
recognition as a Division 17 Section.

A2. Continuing to use and expanding the use of the CTS website as a
resource for research and information was also discussed. Various ideas
including the use of “chatrooms” on the website and making additional
research and informational works available via the website were brought
up for consideration.

A3. Continuing to propose and hold supervision Roundtables at future APA
conventions was discussed. This year’s Rountable was very well attended
(approximately 84 persons including presenters). Informal feedback
suggested that participants felt the presentations were very relevant,
informative and valuable, and that presenters did an excellent job. Mike
mentioned that Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. had approached he and Nick
about the possibility of creating an edited text covering the topics
presented at the Roundtable.

A4. Frank suggested that we explore increasing our contact with field
supervisors and clinicians who might be most in need of the information
and expertise we have to offer. It was noted that many of the people
attending the Rountable presentations were clinicians and field
supervisors seeking to discuss various supervisory issues and
difficulties.

B. Mike asked the group to consider nominations for and the election of
an incoming Chair for the SIG. Joan Rosenberg was nominated to serve as
the incoming Chair. This nomination was seconded and the call for a vote
followed. Joan was elected unanimously by the members present to serve
as the Chair of the SIG for the upcoming 2000-2001 year; she will take
office at the APA annual convention in Washington DC in August, 2000.

C-E. Discussion occurred regarding the need for Counseling Psychology to
better “own” its place in contributing to the established science and
practice of supervision. An idea stemming from this issue was to explore
the possibility of this SIG establishing a document that explicates
model training in supervision. As various states and professional
organizations eventually move toward requiring special certification or
licensure to practice supervision, it was thought that such a model
could help to inform and guide efforts made in this regard. Plans for
the short term included several of the SIG members examining current
certification or licensure practices related to supervision, contacting
APA with regard to obtaining support for developing this initiative
further, and beginning to think over and develop ideas about what would
constitute model training in supervision.

F. Mike stated that he would again propose a Roundtable for APA in
Washington DC, and that the SIG membership should watch for a call for
topics on the CTS listserv.

(4) The meeting was adjourned at about 2:00 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Loreto R. Prieto

Present:: Eric Chen, Kathy Davis, Mike Ellis, Nick Ladany, Ruz Malaruti, Karen Poulin, Helen Roehlke

(1) Our first ST SIG sponsored roundtable seemed to be a success! Various estimates of crowd counts had the attendance at between 70-80 participants.

(2) Based on the Listserv count, we have approximately 62 members. We also have had 142 hits to our web site that just went up a couple of weeks ago.

(3) We discussed the possibility of becoming a section of Division 17. Advantages include that we can have dues if we want, we can have space in the newsletter, we get an hour in the APA program.We need membership to be at 100 in order to become a section. Becoming a section is a good possibility for 1999.

(4) Putting up our resource on the web seems to be effective. We are looking to build by adding more syllabi, references, and other assorted resources.

(5) We discussed issues pertaining to keeping supervision notes and contracts between on site supervisors and academic programs. Out of this discussion came the possibility of putting together a casebook for supervision.

(6) We discussed elections of the next chair (or co-chairs). It seems that we became an official SIG at this APA, therefore, the term for Nick and Mike does not end until 2000. As such, an election committee won't be needed until next year.

(7) We discussed the continuation of ST SIG sponsored APA programs. Karen agreed to look into putting together a symposium reflecting an interdisciplinary look at supervision. Also, Mike and Nick agreed to submit another roundtable presentation for next year. Other submissions are welcome. The more the merrier!

(1) Well, we had our first CTS-SIG meeting and we agreed that big things start out small!

(2) Our discussion primary focused on planning activities for the 1998 APA conference in San Francisco. We focused our discussion on submitting one or two roundtables that are sponsored by the CTS SIG. We felt that roundtables might be a nice way to introduce others to our group. This format was used in the early days of the Vocational SIG, which as many of you know has now impressively grown to a section. The tentative structure for the roundtable would be to have 5-6 tables with 2 people per table. As part of our mission, we felt it important to include students in on our work and considered the option of having a professional and a student at each table. The potential topics we considered were: evaluating trainees, sexual attraction, conducting dissertation research in supervision, multicultural issues, group supervision, developmental models of supervision, supervision nondisclosures/disclosures, student perceptions of supervision, the supervisory relationship, and supervision failures. Supervision practitioners and researchers we considered were Janine Bernard, Di Anne Borders, Elizabeth Holloway, Cal Stoltenberg, Brian McNeill, Mike Patton, Dennis Kivlighan, Susan Neufeldt (my apologies for any misspellings). Also, Loreto Prieto, Nick Ladany, and Mike Ellis might work toward chairing and/or presenting at the roundtables.

(3) On the agenda and briefly discussed were some potential uses of the CTS SIG for supervision theory, research, and practice. Additional topics included discussion groups and books/conferences.

(4) Another task for this group is to get the word out that our group exists. As of this mailing we have increased our membership to 17 people (over a 500% increase!). So please keep spreading the word. Some potential future tasks for spreading the word were discussed and included creating a newsletter, coffee mugs, and APA symposia.

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