Participants needed for investigation of mental health professionals’ evaluations of clients, treatment conceptualizations and demographic information

From: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues List on behalf of Taylor LockerSent: Fri 5/29/2009 5:59 AMTo: SPSSI@LISTS.APA.ORGSubject: request for participation

Greetings SPSSI members!

I am hoping that some members who are also mental health professionals (or in training) may be interested in completing a short survey (5-10 minutes) pertaining to treatment planning and clinician characteristics. Please read the below information if interested and feel free to pass this request for participation to your colleagues. Thank you for your time and support!

http://survey2.psych.ufl.edu/survey103/start.htm

Taylor Locker

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I am a graduate student at the University of Florida. Under the supervision of Martin Heesacker, Ph.D., I am investigating mental health professionals’ evaluations of clients, treatment conceptualizations and demographic information. I am seeking participation by practicing mental health professionals. Please consider participating or forwarding this email to your colleagues.

You will be able to access the online survey from the following hyperlink: http://survey2.psych.ufl.edu/survey103/start.htm

The online survey contains informed consent, questions regarding treatment recommendations, measures pertaining to different aspects of your personality, and questions regarding your demographic characteristics.

You will remain anonymous in the current study. Identifiable information will not be asked as a part of the study. The length of the survey is approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Participation in the study is voluntary and you are free to withdraw from the study at any time. Furthermore, any individual’s information collected through this study will be kept confidential. Only group scores will be presented.If you have any questions regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact Taylor Locker (taylor.locker@ufl.edu) or Martin Heesacker, Ph.D. (heesack@ufl.edu). Furthermore, this study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of Florida. If you have questions or concerns regarding your or your students’ participation in this study, you may contact the IRB02 Office, Box 112250, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-2250, phone (352) 392-0433. All reports or correspondence will be kept confidential.

I thank you in advance for your time and support.

Sincerely, Taylor Locker
Martin Heesacker, Ph.D.
Counseling Psychology Program
University of Florida

Respondents Needed for Study of Impressions of Competency in the Workplace

As one part of my Ph.D. program at TUI University I am conducting an organizational behavior study to validate and improve a newly developed questionnaire. Your participation will help to provide scholars and practicing managers with an instrument for measuring impressions of competency in the workplace (i.e., 'Social norms of showing competency in the workplace').

A link to this web-based survey is listed below. This survey will take approximately 3 minutes to complete. Your replies will be strictly confidential and you may choose to stop the survey at any time. This survey is voluntary.

Your time is valuable and in appreciation for your effort you will be offered a chance of winning a prize. After completing the survey, you will have an opportunity to enter your email address into a drawing to win $100 American Express gift certificate. The winner will be announced a week after the survey is closed.

This study requires as many respondents as possible. If you know of others in the field or friends and family that would be equally qualified and interested, please pass this invitation onto them. I would greatly appreciate your help.

If you have any questions or comments about this study, you can contact me at 1-917-239-4045, email jhaber@tuiu.edu, or reach Dr. Stephen Fitzgerald, the Dissertation Chair, at sfitzgerald@tuiu.edu.

Link to online survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=w8CPRqPTetFBBx46_2fTKZZA_3d_3d

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Julita Haber
Doctoral Candidate, Core Asst Professor
TUI University, College of Business Administration
Email: jhaber@tuiu.edu or julitahaber@hotmail.com
Web: www.tuiu.edu

Teachers Needed for Survey on Inclusive Teaching

From: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues List on behalf of Heather D Hussey
Sent: Thu 4/30/2009 5:49 AM
To: SPSSI@LISTS.APA.ORG
Subject: Inclusive Teaching

Hello Everyone,I am writing one last time to humbly request your participation in a survey that assesses attitudes and behaviors related to inclusive teaching. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board at the University of New Hampshire. I hope to receive responses from teachers as well as teaching graduate students at several colleges and universities to obtain representative information about these issues across many different types of institutions and teachers. Survey responses will be anonymous and all data will be kept confidential. This survey takes only about 20 minutes to complete. At the end of this survey you will have the option of entering a drawing to win 1 of 2 Blackberry phones.To participate in the survey, please go to this link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/teachingattandbeh

Results will be very valuable for my research; these data are for my doctoral dissertation in Psychology. In addition, information from this survey will help identify factors that may make it easy or difficult for faculty to include multicultural material into their teaching. Many institutions have stated increased diversity as a goal, and results from this survey could help institutions find ways to make that goal a reality.If you can take the time to participate in this survey, I would appreciate it very much. As you may know, most research in psychology focuses on undergraduates (who are easy to recruit). For this study, we really need information about the attitudes of teachers. Your participation would provide extremely valuable information.

Thank you for your time,
Heather D. Hussey
University of New Hampshire
Department of Psychology
Conant Hall
Durham, NH 03824
hfauteux@unh.edu

Participation Needed for Spokesperson Credibility Study

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Robin Grantham wrote:

Hi. I am looking for people who might be willing to participate in a study for my dissertation. My topic is spokesperson credibility. For instance: two spokespersons of equal credibility (on paper) appear in two TV news interviews. With all other variables being equal (neutral interviewer, same topic, same message about the topic), audience members might find one person very believable and the other not at all believable.

Anyone who watches news on the Internet or TV, or is involved in their local community is invited to participate. You will be asked to watch a short videotape and answer approximately 50 questions, and you will also be asked to answer some questions about yourself. Your responses are anonymous and confidential. You will not be asked to provide your name or other identifying information. I would be grateful if you would be willing to participate in this study.

The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of TUI University.To participate in this study, go tohttp://www.surveygizmo.com/s/116189/77hbx. I would also appreciate if you could share this link with of your friends, colleagues, or family who may be willing to participate. Please be aware that the video is in Windows Media format, and works best with Internet Explorer or a IE plug-in.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at rgrantham@tuiu.edu. You may also email me if you wish to receive a copy of the results, regardless of your participation.Thank you in advance for your participation and assistance with completion of my dissertation.

Sincerely,

Robin Grantham
Ph.D. candidate, ABD, Business Administration
TUI University
rgrantham@tuiu.edu

Have you taught research methods or do you know someone who has?

From: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues List on behalf of Kathryn QuinaSent: Mon 4/20/2009 3:13 AMTo: SPSSI@LISTS.APA.ORGSubject: Have you taught research methods or do you know someone who has?

This is from a PhD candidate at URI with whom I have worked a lot - and on a topic I care a lot about! Beth is doing a really interesting examination of the research methods course. Please consider taking a few minutes to help her out either filling it out yourself or passing it on to someone who has. Thanks! Cheers, Kat (kquina@uri.edu)

I am hoping that anyone who has taught research methods might be willing to participate in a study for my dissertation. I am developing and validating a measure of students' attitudes toward research methods and in addition to administering the measure to students, I am asking instructors or professors who have taught research methods in psychology to answer a short survey. Any professor or instructor who has taught research methods in psychology is invited to participate. You will be asked to answer some questions as you believe the average undergraduate would answer them, and you will also be asked to answer some questions about yourself. Your responses are anonymous and confidential. You will not be asked to provide your name or other identifying information. I would be grateful if you would be willing to participate in this study. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. This study has been approved by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Rhode Island.

To participate in this study, go to:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=apye_2fMlw_2fFNtUt0zJPr4Vg_3d_3d. I would appreciate if you could please share this link with any other professors or instructors who may be able to participate, at URI or elsewhere.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at edimond@mail.uri.edu. You may also email me if you wish to receive a copy of the results, regardless of your participation.

Thank you in advance for your participation and assistance with completion of my dissertation.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Dimond, M.A.
Ph.D. candidate, ABD, Behavioral Science
Instructor and Research Assistant
Department of Psychology
University of Rhode Island

The Writing Loft: Write a Nonfiction Book in 30 Days

The Writing Loft: Write a Nonfiction Book in 30 Days

http://www.thewritingloft.com/nonfiction.html

The course fee for Write a Nonfiction Book in 30 Days is a modest $67 (Writing Loft, Home Page, n.d.)

Here is the quoted description: "Ninety percent of all published writing is nonfiction. The world is clamoring information; information of any kind. Publishers are searching for authors to supply that information. Opportunities for nonfiction writers are everywhere. Those who have given it a try are making sizable incomes writing about what they already know. This class will show you how to research, write, and produce a viable draft in only 30 days.This class is for you if you've: never written before; never attempted a full-length project; have an expertise or information others would like to have; have very little time to write; [or] have a desire to write a book."

This looks like an interesting distance learning (DL) class for those who may want to start a book.

Reference

Writing Loft. (n.d.). Home page. Retrieved March 3, 2008 from http://www.thewritingloft.com/nonfiction.html

Leadership Effectiveness and Enabling Others to Act

Kouzes and Posner (1997) suggest a strong relationship between the effectiveness of leadership and the process of enabling of others to act. Indeed, leaders create a climate of collaboration that enables others to act.

By fostering collaboration and building spirited teams, they actively involve others under their supervision and outside their responsibility. Leaders help create an atmosphere of trust and human dignity – those who would lead must demonstrate that they understand that encouraging mutual respect sustains extraordinary efforts. Leaders strengthen others through providing followers a choice and sharing information about the tasks being pursued. Each follower feels powerful and capable through leadership responsibility that is shared throughout the organization.

Organizations that foster collaboration by promoting cooperative goals and building trust can reach the goal by consuming fewer resources. Organizations with leaders who share power and information, provide options, help develop core competencies, use people to get important things done and support their efforts strengthen employees in unique and powerful ways toward self-leadership.

In sum, leadership that grows a collaborative environment and self-leadership initiative on the part of employees improves organizational performance.

Reference

Kouzes, J.M., & Posner, B.Z. (1997). The leadership challenge (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.