April 2010 Communiqué

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is stick with these priorities. W e put a lot on the shoulders of the President but clearly there has to be will at other levels. The APA is a big stakeholder. These other people like APA have to help with the implementation of all these great ideas. OEMA:

In 25 years, what progress do you anticipate will be made in multicultural psychology?

Dr. Arredondo:

In 25 years it's going to be the framework for all psychology‌right now we kind of marginalize multicultural psychology. It is going to be the way psychology training research and practice is enacted. You do something in the name of multicultural psychology and we have to remember it relates to people in general. That is one of my dreams, that multicultural psychology will be all psychology.

Connie Dekis is a senior at The George Washington University. There she is a psychology major and communications minor and a member of the psychology honor society, Psi Chi. Connie spent last semester studying abroad at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has served as a counselor at a camp for kids with cancer and traveled to the Dominican Republic to help out in a building project for local families. Her work in public health education projects includes a campus radio show that she co-created to educate students about healthy sexual behavior, and programming to prevent depression, chemical dependency and academic underachievement in school-aged children. Connie Dekis

A Timeline Of Critical Events in Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology Bertha G. Holliday, PhD Senior Director, Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs Critical Events in Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology 1963

The APA Ad Hoc Committee on Equality of Opportunity in Psychology (CEOP) is established by the APA Board of Directors in response to a proposal from Division 9 (SPSSI) relative to the training and employment of Negroes [sic]. The Committee is charged "to explore the possible problems encountered in training and employment in psychology as a consequence of race."

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