For those of you affiliated with graduate, internship, fellowship or post-licensure Geropsychology training programs…please consider joining CoPGTP if your program has not yet done so. Please feel free to contact me, or other Board members listed below, if you have questions about the organization.
Best,
Susan Whitbourne,Chair-Elect CoPGTP
DO YOU OR YOUR ORGANIZATION PROVIDE GEROPSYCHOLOGY TRAINING?
PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING!!
The Council of Professional Geropsychology Training Programs (CoPGTP) is an organization of programs providing training in geropsychology. It is committed to promoting excellence in training in professional geropsychology and to supporting the development of high quality programs at the graduate school, internship, postdoctoral fellowship, and post licensure levels. On behalf of the Board of Directors, we would like to invite qualified geropsychology training programs to apply for membership in the council. CoPGTP grew out of the June 2006 Geropsychology Training Conference which produced the Pikes Peak Model of Geropsychology Training. As a member you will support our efforts to foster high quality geropsychology initiatives. For example, we have developed a geropsychology competencies assessment tool (see http://www.uccs.edu/~cpgtp/), compiled a large collection of readings and current training resources in geropsychology, and developed a list of members who are available to help with establishing new training programs.
CoPGTP has played a leadership role in several important national initiatives since its founding, some of which are listed below:
- Helping Geropsychology to gain formal recognition from the APA Council as a Specialty within professional psychology
- Attaining and maintaining membership on the Council of Chairs of Training Councils (CCTC), and
- Exploring the possibility of helping to create a Geropsychology ABPP board certification.
Membership in the Council is open to programs in which at least one geropsychologist is engaged actively in training. Members are required to offer both didactic and experiential training. Typically, this training is offered in more than one setting that serves older adults. Importantly, members of the training council are training programs, which rarely consist of just one individual. That said, it is recognized that training programs in professional geropsychology may, and often do, consist of one geropsychologist. Associate (non-voting) membership is available also to individuals who are interested/involved in geropsychology training but do not meet the criteria for full membership. We wish to be inclusive as an organization. CoPGTP hosts an annual dinner and membership meeting at the APA or GSA conventions.
Benefits of membership include the following:
- List serve venue for sharing training ideas, strategies, difficulties, and brainstorming solutions
- Sharing of opportunities for students and trainees
- Access to training competency documents and training models as they develop
- Relationship/consultation with other geropsychologists providing training
- Research grant opportunities offered each year
- An award for innovative training offered each year
- Invitation to an annual meeting with educational and networking opportunities, and
- Public acknowledgement of the entity as a recognized geropsychology training program.
You may download the application from our website (http://www.uccs.edu/~cpgtp/). Annual dues are $200 per calendar year for full membership; $100 per year for associate membership. If you have additional questions, please email any of the following membership committee members:
Joseph Casciani (jcasciani@cohealth.org), regarding post-licensure training
Andrew Heck (andrew.heck@dbhds.virginia.gov), regarding internship training
Victor Molinari (vmolinari@usf.edu), regarding postdoctoral training
Erlene Rosowsky (erosowsk@bidmc.harvard.edu), regarding graduate training
We look forward to future collaboration. Thank you for your consideration.
Council Board Members:
Daniel L. Segal, Ph.D., Chair, dsegal@uccs.edu
Susan Whitbourne, Ph.D., Chair-Elect, swhitbo@psych.umass.edu
Michele Karel, Ph.D., Past Chair, michele.karel@va.gov
Janet Yang, Ph.D., Secretary, jyang@cfar1.org
Benjamin Mast, Ph.D., Treasurer, b.mast@louisville.edu
Erlene Rosowsky, Psy.D., Member-at-large, graduate programs, erosowsk@bidmc.harvard.edu
Andrew Heck, Psy.D., ABPP, Member-at-large, internship programs, andrew.heck@dbhds.virginia.gov
Victor Molinari, Ph.D., ABPP, Member-at-large, postdoctoral programs, vmolinari@usf.edu
Joseph Casciani, Ph.D., Member-at-large, post-licensure training programs, jcasciani@cohealth.org
Alexandra Zaleta, Student representative, zaleta@wustl.edu
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Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Director, Office of National Scholarship Advisement
409 Tobin Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst MA 01003
413-545-4306 (O) 413-545-0996 (F)
http://www.psych.umass.edu/people/susanwhitbourne
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