Dear AAPA members,
We (the AAPA EC) want to inform you about opportunities to participate in in ongoing dialogues about ethical issues in psychology and the independent review of APA, opportunities both with AAPA and through other venues. For AAPA, we invite you to attend the Town Hall meeting with representatives of the AAPA EC at the AAPA convention (7:30 to 8:30 am in Northrop Frye Hall). Other venues for dialogue and commentary to APA and beyond include:
- the APA/CoR will hold a Town Hall Meeting on the independent Review Report at the APA convention on Saturday, August 8, 3 to 4:30 pm in Convention Centre/Constitution Hall 106 North Building-Level 100
- APA has an open comments area on their website: http://apa.org/independent-
review/index.aspx - AAPA Vice President Helen Hsu will be co-presenting a session at the APA convention titled “Ethnic Minority Psychological Associations Critique APA Ethics Code-Integrating Culture and Ethics“ on Saturday, August 8, 2pm-3:50pm. This is a further opportunity for feedback and better understanding the relations of AAPA and the APA ethics office in recent years.
- Psychologists for Social Responsibility and co-sponsors will be conducting a Town Hall Meeting for discussing the recently-released Hoffman Report 4pm to 8pm Thursday August 6, 2015 at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 73 Simcoe St, 8 minutes walk from where the APA annual convention is being held