As an Associate Member of AACAP, I ask that you support me for APA President-elect.
Given the vast decrease in revenue that both AACAP and the APA may face, it is important that the two combine resources where practical. Two decades ago, Carolyn Robinowitz, Paul Fink and I began the effort to give allied organizations some power in the governance of the APA. As a result, AACAP now has a seat in the Assembly, but the present crisis requires far more combined efforts.
If elected President-elect:
1. AACAP, not I, will decide who fills the vacancies within the Council on Children, Adolescents and Their Families.
2. AACAP will be encouraged to select corresponding members of other components, such as the Council on Psychiatry and the Law.
3. I will encourage the Assembly to give major psychiatric subspecialty organizations, such as AACAP, more than one vote in the Assembly.
4. In recent years, I've had motions passed by the Assembly that the APA recognize AACAP'S Practice Parameters. Additionally, Michael Houston and I have a motion before the upcoming Assembly to make an abridgement of the Practice Parameters part of the APA's Quick Reference. Undoubtedly, other positions of AACAP deserve to be endorsed by the APA, and I will work with AACAP to have the APA endorse those positions.
If elected President-elect, I will work with Jay Scully and the AACAP leadership to find many more ways in which the efforts can be combined. For example, the APA’s lobbying must include the need for this nation to address the work-force shortage issues facing child and adolescent psychiatrists and their patients.
