A Special Message from Dr. Stephen Bowles, the Division 19 President: ​

Dear Colleagues:
We are off to another great year with the Society. I would like to begin by thanking Dr. Mark Staal for his steadfast leadership this past year, in taking on new initiatives and continuing to address the Hoffman report issues. He continues to lead the Operational Psychology Practice Guidelines Task Force as well as serve as the awards chair. In addition I would like to thank Dr. Sally Harvey for her double duty service this past year as the past president, for serving on the APA Council of Representatives (CoR), and for her continuous work for the past several years in repeatedly identifying the concerns in the Hoffman report.  A welcome to Dr. Eric Surface, our new president-elect and election chair, who has extensive experience serving as our past secretary of the Society. Support our Society this year by nominating candidate for our elected offices and sending nominees names to Dr. Eric Surface and nominating deserving members for our awards to our Awards Committee Chair Dr. Mark Stall. Thank you to our great members once again earning an early victory in the year, as we maintain our second seat on the CoR through the power of your vote.
​It is a great honor to serve our many Society members around the world. It has been a great experience this year in the short period of time that I have been working with our members on a number of initiatives. My presidential initiatives are building on the past presidents strong foundation from which they have propelled our Society.  This year, we want to keep building our Society to another level that is addressed in these four initiatives. Continue reading...

Call for Division 19 Award nominations

I want to encourage you all to consider nominating colleagues (or yourself) for one of Division 19's Annual Awards. The process is straightforward and requires:
  1. A letter of justification describing the qualifications of the nominee (please limit to a single page)
  2. A current resume or CV

All materials should be sent to me (ethicalpsych@gmail.com). Descriptions of our awards are posted at: https://www.militarypsych.org/awards.html

Please submit nominations in PDF format and list the name of the nominee and the award on the subject line of your email (e.g., John Doe, Julius E. Uhlaner Award). Winners will be notified prior to 30 June 2018 and awards will be presented during the Society for Military Psychology Business Meeting at the upcoming APA convention in Chicago.

Nominee submissions must be received by 1 May, 2019 to be considered by the Awards Committee.

Mark A. Staal, PhD, ABPP
Past-President, DIV19

2019 Division Officer Elections

The Society for Military Psychology is holding elections 23 April through 6 June.

The Elections Committee encourages all who are eligible to vote. Fellows, members, and associates of the Division as well as dues-paying affiliates (professional, international, student) can vote for President-elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Member-at-Large. Only APA fellows, members, and associates can vote for APA Council of Representatives. To assist you, we will be releasing candidate statements via the listserv, website and social media. A townhall with the two President-elect candidates will be released as well. APA runs the Division elections process. if you do not receive an email on 23 April with voting instructors and you believe you should have, please contact APA Elections Director, Garnett Coad (gcoad@apa.org). Please vote to help shape the future of our Society. More information to follow. Please find a list of candidates attached and updates on our elections page. Thank you.

International Military Psychology Travel Award

A limited number of travel awards up to $1500 are available to support travel of Division 19 members to international (non-U.S.) professional meetings in order to present a scientific paper or poster on a military psychology topic. Alternately, a travel award may be granted to an international member to travel and present at the annual American Psychological Association convention.  Deadline: 30 April 2019.  See attached application form for details.  

APA Apportionment Results

We're happy to announce that we were successful in keeping our second seat on the APA Council of Representatives! We also garnered 159 more votes than last year which is excellent! If you are not a full member, consider joining. Having a vote means a lot for the profession and consequently our service members. If we could increase this by about another 600 votes, we could achieve a third seat on the Council.
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