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Letters continued from page 4 Needed: More student supports In regard to the article “The crisis on campus,” (September, page 18), may I suggest that the increasing lack of social and emotional supports on American campuses is one important factor? My training in suicide prevention, for example, suggests that students most at risk are males who lack adequate social and emotional support, and have lost an important relationship. In these days of open dorms, limited supervision, and freeand-easy sexuality, students like such young men may be at high risk. I meet an increasing number of parents who keep their young people at home and in community colleges for two years because, the parents say, they are “not mature enough.” It seems to me that an unintended consequence of the current college and university culture is that many 18-year-olds cannot handle its demands. I don’t suggest turning the clock back to in loco parentis; that’s an exercise in futility. I do suggest that colleges and universities consider the need for student-friendly social and emotional supports, in addition to training in major emotional disorders for counselors and education in signs and symptoms for students. I hope my colleagues in the universities who study this issue don’t wait 20 years for an accumulation of more actuarial data to think about how to meet student needs. Maybe an in-depth multivariate analysis, if they feel the need? JuDith JENSEN, EDD Tinley Park, Ill. AP A P RA CT ICE ORG A N IZA TI O N COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists (PEP) • An examination designed for use by psychology licensing authorities to implement laws permitting the prescribing of psychotropic medications by quali ed psychologists • Secure and con dential banking of PEP scores for quali ed graduates of postdoctoral psychopharmacology educational programs • Psychopharmacology training programs may use the PEP to ful ll exit requirements A loss to psychology Thank you for your fascinating article about Otto Selz’s underappreciated contributions to cognitive science (“The little-known roots of the cognitive revolution,” September). Based on his empirical research, he was the first psychologist to offer an alternative to the associationist conceptualization of how the human mind works. Instead of viewing human thinking as following a chain of associations — the dominant view in the early period of psychology — he offered a constructivist view in which thinking involves building coherent mental representations, that is, constructing schemas. His early ideas about cognitive construction, schemas and labeled mental connections are all reflected in current work in cognitive science, often without acknowledgment of Selz’s contributions. Readers who would like to access Selz’s major works in English may be interested in Fridja and de Groot’s (1982) edited volume, Otto Selz: His Contribution to Psychology. It is certainly a loss to our field that the rise of Nazism in Europe put a vicious end to Otto Selz’s promising career. RiChARD E. MAyER, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara 750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 Phone: (202) 336-6100 • Fax: (202) 336-5797 E-mail: apapocollege@apa.org Website: apapracticecentral.org Please send letters to smartin@apa.org or Sara Martin, Monitor editor. Letters should be no more than 250 words and may be edited for space and clarity. 8 4.5x4.5_APACollege_ad.indd 1 M o n i t o r o AM p s y c h o l o g y • n o v e M b e r 2 0 1 1 3/29/11 9:10:57 n http://www.apapracticecentral.org http://www.apapracticecentral.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - November 2011

Monitor on Psychology - November 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
Guest Column
‘Grand Challenges’ offers blueprint for mental health research
Documentary seeks to reach parents of LGBT kids
Treating veterans will cost at least $5 billion by 2020
Selfless volunteering might lengthen your life
Combat and stress up among U.S. military in Afghanistan
South Africa to host international psychology conference
Study uncovers a reason behind sex differences in mental illness
Navy psychologist gives a voice to combat trauma
In Brief
Psychologist suicide
On Your Behalf
Journey back to Heart Mountain
Psychology is key to pain management, report finds
ACT goes international
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Questionnaire
Science Watch
Behavior change in 15-minute sessions?
Health-care reform 2.0
Perspective on Practice
Giving a heads up on concussion
Practice Profile
Searching for meaning
Inspiring young researchers
Aging, with grace
Public Interest
Thank you!
APA News
Division Spotlight
American Psychological Foundation
The man who gave Head Start a start
Personalities

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