Michael Finch
Below is a new organization that Professor Finch was instrumental in forming. In addition, Professor Janice McClendon was instrumental in qualifying the nonprofit association with the IRS.
To: Law Community Interested in Psychological Injuries, Trauma, Disability, Rehabilitation, Forensics, and Law
From: Association for Scientific Advancement in Psychological Injury and Law (ASAPIL)
Date: August 14, 2007
Re: Announcing a new psychological journal, Psychological Injury and Law (PIL), and a recruitment drive for our new association
We are a new organization interested in the interface of psychology and law pertaining to the reliable and valid assessment and treatment of psychological injuries (such as chronic pain, PTSD, traumatic brain injury) and disabilities after motor vehicle accidents, work accidents, or other trauma and preparation and presentation of reliable and valid evidence for medicolegal proceedings or court. We seek to promote scientific study of psychological injuries that result from such situations, and of the complications, confounds, and threats to validity in client presentation, including of pre-event psychological vulnerabilities, personality factors, and possible malingering.
We have initiated a new journal on the topic, Psychological Injury and Law (PIL), with the inaugural issue due in 2008. The association and journal are described on the website, www.asapil.org. Presently, the journal board is being recruited. The main sections of the journal cover the areas of law, forensics, disability, chronic pain, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and assessment, including of possible malingering, with distinguished researchers heading each of the sections.
We would appreciate your investigating the website to learn more about the association, the journal, the editorial board, our plans, and how you can join the association, submit articles to the journal, and even nominate psychologists and attorneys to the board (self-nominations will be considered, as well).
Membership will be free this year (in 2007), because the journal subscription that is included in the annual dues will not be available until next year. Annual dues are set at a reasonable amount for next year, because the journal publisher, Springer Science and Business Media, New York, is lowering the cost of the journal for association members.
The association and journal will be appealing to psychologists and other mental health professionals, in addition to other rehabilitation workers and forensic practitioners. Attorneys and other legal professionals also will find that the association and journal are important to them.
For those of you interested in contributing to the administration of the association, kindly inform me of this when you send in your application form, with your CV attached. We are especially looking for a Treasurer and a Secretary to join the senior association board, as well as a Vice-President, Law, and a web master, in addition to committee chairs. We look forward to hearing from you.
Gerald Young, Ph.D. Editor in Chief, PIL, and Association President, ASAPIL, York University, Toronto, Ontario; [email protected]
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Michael S. Finch, J.D., Law Editor, PIL, College of Law, Stetson University, Gulfport, FL
Andrew W. Kane, Ph.D., ABAP, Associate Psychology Editor, PIL, Milwaukee Wisconsin
Charles Figley, Ph.D., Vice President, ASAPIL [and one of the growing number of board members, PIL], Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
And the journal section heads/ association working group:
Journal Section: 1. Law: Michael S. Finch, J.D./ Carol Henderson, J.D.; 2. Forensics: Andrew W. Kane, Ph.D., ABAP; 3. Disability: Izabela Schultz, Ph.D., ABPP; 4. Pain: Robert Gatchel, Ph.D., ABPP; 5. TBI: Ron Ruff, Ph.D.; 6. PTSD: Gordon Asmundson, Ph.D./ Steven Taylor, Ph.D.; 7. Assessment/ Malingering: Michael Bagby, Ph.D.
Post date: Aug. 19, 2007
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