2026-sp-Budget 025-2026
2025 Budget and Approved 2026 Budget From Mid-Winter Meeting SUMMARY 2025 Budget 2025 Actual Through Sept. 30 2026 Budget Total income/Funds $ 142,693.83 $ 142,693.83 Total expenses $ 92,336.72 $ 121,216.72 Income less expenses: $ 50,357.11 $ 21,477.11 INCOME DETAILS 2025 Budget 2024 Actual Through September 30 2026 Budget Journal Royalties […]
2026-sp-APA 2026 Conference Prelude
For those of you I haven’t connected with yet, my name is Kristin Miserocchi and I’m the programming chair for Division 49. We are in the Final stages of finalizing our session and posters for this year’s APA Convention in Washington, DC. We will be offering 5 hours of session programming and 2 hours of […]
2026-sp-Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy for Good
Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy for Good Joe Miles, Ph.D. I am writing this column on a beautiful, sunny, 70 degree February day in Knoxville. It is nice to be getting a preview of spring, even if only temporarily, and it is a far cry from month ago when the Board met for the Midwinter […]
2026-sp-Editorial
In a few short weeks, many of us will gather in New York City for AGPA Connect. We will leave our offices and step into shared spaces, Special Institute Groups, committee meetings, hallway conversations, and crowded lunches. We will also step into the living rhythm of the city itself. We gather at a time when […]
2026-sp-What makes Tabletop Roleplaying Therapeutic?
Vinny Malik Dehili & E Merten What is Group Therapy? Group therapy is life through real stories and relationships. Put simply, throughout life we connect through relationships and groups. As children, we enter the world attached to another and express ourselves through relationships. These real relationships cultivate an imagined sense of self, others, and […]
2026-sp-Black, Queer & Liberated:
Black, Queer & Liberated: Pilot & Evaluation of a Community-Partnered Mental Health Intervention for Black Queer Young Adults Jacquelyn (Jackie) Chin Doctoral Candidate Dept. of Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology Abstract: Black LGBTQIA+ (queer) young adults face elevated mental health risks, including high rates of major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and suicidality (SAMHSA, 2020). […]
2026-SP- The Role of Group Dynamics Among Children
the Feb 20th WEBINAR 1:30 MST 2:30 CST 3:30 EST Free on Zoom The Role of Group Dynamics in Learning and Growth among Children and Adolescents: Perspectives from Central America with Tony Sheppard, PsyD, ABPP, (Moderator), Gabriel Arauz, M.Sc. & Rita Rivara, PsyD (speakers) Conversation Hour – February 20 at 3:30 PM EST Register Here ************************************************************************************* […]
2026-sp-Creating Spaces for Survival:
Creating Spaces for Survival: HIV Mental Health Support in Crisis Julio J. Fonseca I wonder now, as I look around me, who will pick up the torch? — Pedro Zamora, 1994 Silence is the deadliest weapon.— Marlon Riggs, Director/Narrator, Tongues Untied, 1989 I wonder now, as I look around me, who will pick up the […]
2026-sp-/Division 49 Midwinter Meeting
Division 49 Midwinter Meeting January 24, 2026 11:00am-4pm EST Virtual meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82924723804?pwd=iLTAOPjfU6uEi2fvaEvWlWnFj8u44c.1 Board Members Board members present: Division members present: Amanda Acevedo-Morales David Chirko Ilana Ander Lisa Huelskamp Joshua “Ale” DeSilva Abigail Johnson (student member) Leann Diederich Debra O’Connell Dennis Kivlinghan Martyn Whittingham Martin […]
2026-sp-Collective Mourning: The Act of Being Present
Tev Zukor PhD There is an irony in the best advice I’ve ever received: “Never get old. It hurts too much.” While this comment is usually delivered with a wink and a nudge; as the years pass, the humor behind that sentiment begins to give way to cold, hard truth. We often assume the “hurt” […]