The Association of Black Psychologists’ Thirty Third Annual Convention

“Building A Healthy Village for the New Millennium:

Creative Approaches to Wellness"

About the Convention Theme: The convention focuses on the multiple sources of knowledge and the skills and behaviors engaged in by people of African descent in America in their efforts to build a healthy village. The topics addressed will encompass psychological theories, mechanisms of service delivery: both (Africentric and Eurocentric) as well as health care behaviors and strategies (both contemporary and traditional) that honor and enhance the African American spirit. Only by exploring and advocating for a collaborative approach to the integration and delivery of services can we build a healthy village. Such a collaborative approach to healing the wounds of our people involves partnerships between care providers and recipients. Our people must learn to take responsibility for aggressively pursuing physical and mental health.

Preliminary Program

July 30 – August 4, 2001

(Dates include Pre-Convention, Convention, and Post-Convention Workshops)

Hyatt Regency Hotel

1750 Welton Street

Denver, Colorado

Room Reservations: (303) 295-1234, (800) 223-1234 (Specify ABPsi!)

Saturday (July 28)

12:00 pm – 5:00 pm Board of Directors’ Meeting

Sunday (July 29)

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Board of Directors’ Meeting

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Meeting of The ABPsi General Assembly

Monday (July 30)

9:00 am -5:00pm:

Pre-Convention Workshop: Leadership Development Institute

Presenters: Harvette Grey, Ph.D. & Daniel Williams, Ph.D.

Tuesday (July 31)

8:30 am -12:30 pm

Workshop: Reflexology For The Caregiver in You, Presenter: Njideka Olatunde, Ph.D. Description: The objectives of the experiential workshop is to focus on three major issues: 1) Introduction of reflexology techniques that can be used for preventive healthcare training and wellness programs. 2) Present reflexology as a therapy that is a compliment to conventional medicine. 3) Provide introductory therapeutic reflexology training that can be used by family caregivers and healthcare professionals. Fee $50.00

Workshop: Self-Care Time For Care Givers & Care Receivers, Presenter: Jennie Trotter, M.Ed. Description: This workshop will focus on teaching participants how to recognize and manage stress from daily living. The approach used in the workshop was developed through the Wholistic Stress Control Institute (WSCI) in Atlanta. The WSCI uses a wholistic approach, which advocates the harmonious development of the total person; mind, body and spirit. Fee $50.00

Workshop: Being Comfortable With the Uncomfortable: Healing the Pains of Black Women. Presenter: Deidre Sermons, Psy.D. Description: This professional development workshop is designed to be a self-healing process for Black female mental health professionals that would turn better assist them in working with Black female clientele. The presenters are interested in having an experiential symposium that provides a safe environment for self-exploration of “the Pains of Black Women” such as body image, skin color, hair texture, relationships, mother-daughter conflicts, etc. It is hoped that participants will leave the workshop with a stronger sense of connectedness with their own internal process and with each other. This will facilitate a more open therapeutic process around unique issues facing Black women. Fee $50.00

12:00 pm -4:00 pm

Workshop: MAAT Retreat in the Rockies. Presenters: Members of the Ritual Committee, Opalanga Pugh primary facilitator. Description: You are invited to a retreat in honor of Maat, the Kemetic deity, who stands for righteousness, justice, balance and harmony. Join the Ritual Committee on an adventure in ritual in the Colorado Rockies! We will explore and experience basic elements (common threads) of ritual, the processes of making the ordinary extraordinary. We will create sacred space, walk, play, sit quietly in the mountains; enjoy lunch and complete the journey with a mud bath. Bring your swimsuit, walking shoes, water bottle, sunscreen, journal, and an open mind. Fee: $50.00. Transportation: To be provided.

1:30 pm -5:30 pm

Workshop: Parent Wise Parenting Program (PWPP), Presenter: Gloria Elder, MA. Description: PWPP is a 10-hour prevention program structured to empower parents and their families. The objectives for this workshop is for participants to 1) gain knowledge of the parent training model and program implementation procedures, 2) increase coping skills for self, 3) gain information on how to duplicate the parent training model in their communities and 4) share replication strategies and funding resource ideas. Fee $50.00

Workshop: Effective Healing of Stress & Cancer With Qigong. Presenter: Chunyi Lin. Description: Qigong has been practiced in China for over five thousand years. A great number of studies have shown that Qigong can be used to help people to heal a wide range of sicknesses without side effects. The workshop will explore how Qigong can be used to healing stress and cancer.

Fee $50.00

Tuesday, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Presidential Opening

Wednesday August 1, 2001

8:45 am –10:15 am

Keynote Address: U.S. Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary of Health, David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.

10:30 – 11:00

Press Conference

10:30 am -12:00 pm

Paper Session: A Qualitative Look at the AIDS/HIV Awareness and the Use of Protection Among Students at the University of Ghana. Presenter: Deidre Sermons, Psy.D. Description: Research addresses the need for awareness for the prevention of HIV/AIDS

Paper Session: Gender Differences Among African American Students in the Impact of Racial Identity on Academic Psychosocial Development. Presenter: Kevin Cockley, Ph.D. Description: Paper address creative ways of facilitating the racial & academic identity of Black males.

Paper Session: Personal Empowerment for People of Color & Keys to Success in Higher Education. Presenter: Benson Cooke, Ph.D. Description: Paper discusses empowerment strategies to students seeking to pursue studies in higher education.

Paper Session: Having an IMPACT: A Substance Abuse Intervention Program for Families. Presenter: Cheryl Groce-Wright, Ph.D. Description: This intervention model focuses on the empowerment of children, parents, and family systems. In doing so, we believe that this contributes to the empowerment of communities in which IMPACT participants live, work and serve.

Paper Session: Fulfilling Our Destiny: The Role of Researchers/Theorists in Building a Healthy Village for the New Millennium. Presenter: Lennell Dade, Ph.D. Description: Psychology needs a new paradigm and it’s the fate of African psychologists to bring about this much needed scientific revolution. In reviewing our measures, i.e.; our theories and our paradigm, we will be well on our way to building a healthy village for the new millennium.

Paper Session: Differences in Perceived Racism & Its Psychological Effects on College Students Along Ethnic Lines. Presenter: Kisha Bazelais. Description: The study was designed to determine if perceived racism is a psychological stressor for individuals who experience it on their college campuses and how the experience of racism effects the psychological well-being of individuals who are constantly exposed to it because of their racial/ethnic affiliation.

Paper Session: Faculty & Graduate Students of Color Serving Students: Building a Community “The Psychology Group.” Presenters: Neal-Barnett, Ph.D., Mitchell Michelle, MA & Stacy Crup. Description: This paper describes how one can build an African-centered village within a university department setting.

Workshop: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Compensable Consequence of Racism. Presenters: Robert L. Atwell, Psy.D., Ernest Myers, Ph.D., and Afi Samella Abdullah, Ph.D. Description: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one of the most widely diagnosed mental health consequences of exposure to physical and psychological violence. African-Americans have manifested this disorder since being brought to America and enslaved. It has often gone either unrecognized or misdiagnosed as character pathology. This symposium will examine the residue of slavery (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder) and the ongoing impact of racism on the mental health of African-Americans. The presenters will outline and discuss the relationship of current dysfunction and distress to the diagnostic category and demonstrate how to present the symptoms as a compensable disorder. The discussion will also amplify the importance of the Black Reparations Movement in the eventual remediation of the distress associated with racism

Symposium: A Case For Reparations From the American Psychological Association (APA) For The Perpetuation of Scientific Racism. Presenters: Shawn Utsey & Mark Bolden. Description: This symposium is intended to provoke a discussion on the role of U.S. psychology and the APA in the advancement of scientific racism. Moreover, attendees of this symposium will be challenged with the following questions: 1) What remnants of scientific racism remain in the discipline of psychology and how do they continue to impact African Americans and other people of color? 2) Are the victims of scientific racism entitled to reparations? and 3) What are the recommendations for addressing these and other issues related to scientific racism?

Symposium: Domestic Violence: African-Centered Analysis. Presenter: Daudi Azibo, Ph.D. Description: The “Healthy Village” will never materialize if domestic violence is not eliminated. The general goal of this symposium is to provide a concrete assessment of what African-centered culture can tell us about domestic violence.

1:30 pm -3:00 pm

Workshop: The Real Deal… Super Sized! Presenter: Carnita Groves, BA. Description: Area high school and junior high school-age youth share their thoughts—through role play, music, drama, poetry, and other means—about what’s well and what is not well in the village.

Workshop: Culturally Connecting Complementary Healthcare with Conventional Care. Presenter: Njideka Olatunde, Ph.D. Description: As the population of America becomes increasingly diversified, it is important for healthcare providers to recognize and acknowledge the multi-ethnic and cultural healthcare choices desired by our diverse society. This session will focus on understanding and exploring the role of multicultural healthcare choices in treatment and preventive healthcare.

Paper Session: Psychological Blackness, Psychological Defense Mechanisms, And Mental Wellness: Empirical Reports. Presenter: Daudi Azibo, Ph.D. Description: This 90-minute presentation focuses on the following premise: If the village is going to be healthy, the villagers will need high levels of psychological Blackness (identity) which is associated with mental wellness.

Poster Session : Stress Spirituality & Health Promoting Behaviors Among African American College Students. Presenter: Terra Bowen-Reid. Description: The present study adds to the growing body of literature that implicates the role of culture on health.

Poster Session : Cultural Differences in Coping Strategies of College Students. Presenter: Dana Cunningham. Description: Examines the cultural differences in coping strategies that contribute to health and wellness.

Poster Session : The Relationship Between the Impostor Phenomenon & Self Efficacy Among Students at a Predominantly Black University. Presenter: Karen Witherspoon. Description: Imposter feelings prevent a sense of well being. Suggestions for reducing these feelings will help to build leaders for the 21^st century.

Poster Session : Preventing Weight From Being an Obstacle for African American Adolescent Girls. Presenters: Donsha Robinson-McClain, MS & Deidre Sermons, Psy.D. Description: The research address a program geared toward healing the thoughts of adolescent girls.

Poster Session: Capacity Building Mechanisms for Community Based Organizations Providing HIV/AIDS Prevention/Interrvention to African Americans. Presenters: Mark Colomun, Ph.D. & Marilyn Moering. Description: This presentation discusses healing efforts of agencies that provide healing to those providing services to a high-risk population: African Americans.

Workshop: A Culturally Specific Approach to Marriage Preparation in the Afrikan American Community. Presenters: Huberta Jackson-Lowman, Ph.D. & Rebecca Johnson, BS. Description: Using didactic and experiential strategies, participants will be given information about four critical components which research indicates are important to marriage preparation and success among Afrikan Americans.

Workshop: Ye FA Ogyam, Ghana. Presenter: Harvette Grey, Ph.D. Description: The presentation will focus on the Fihankra International, a social, cultural, spiritual and economic organization. The focus will be to explain in detail the organization and the village Ye Fa Ogyam such as the work and plans of the organization and what people, who desire, can do to become a part of it.

Workshop: Addressing the Psychological Needs of Students. Presenter: Harry Davidson, Ph.D. Description: The purpose of this workshop is to examine the impact of escalating psychosocial problems on the academic performance of public school students and to explore the role of the mental health professional in 1) Providing mental consultation/education to educators and legislators; and 2) Providing school-based services.

Think Tank: Post Traumatic Slavery Blues. Presenter: Gayle Hamlett, Psy.D

Thursday August 2

9:00 am -12:00pm

Workshop: The Deep Cost of the Maafa: Implications for International Healing & Reparations. Presenter: Kevin Washington, Ph.D. Description: This think tank will discuss the legal aspects of defining people as a Nation (i.e. ethnic, race, culture) and the need for psychologists and healers to assess psychological (spiritual) trauma caused by the MAAFA. The participants can consider the development of Psyche (Spirit) Devastation Index to measure the residuals of the MAAFA. The future implications of taking the struggle for reparations on the International arena will be explored.

Workshop: Eliminating Racism in Ourselves & the World Around Us: Healing From Internalized Racism. Presenter: Sheryl Weston, MA. Description: Participants will learn how to: 1) Assess one’s internalized racism, 2) Examine how internalized racism manifests itself culturally, and 3) Explore ways to cope with and heal from internalized racism.

Think Tank: Building a Network of African Oriented Interventions in U.S. Prisons. Presenters: Randolph Potts, Ph.D., Satira Streeter, BS, Paul Hill, MA, Lorie Nicholas, Ph.D., Ida Terry, MA & Charles Groce, Ph.D. Description: The main goal of this session is to initiate a discussion on how we as a community of healers may address the continued expression of the MAAFA as manifested by the number of children and adolescents who fall prey to the “criminal justice” system. The think tank will focus on prevention and solutions to incarceration. By adopting a “think tank” format for the various presentations, it is hoped that this will generate discussion among all in attendance on how existing programs may be coordinated, and new programs may be developed in addressing this urgent problem.

Workshop: Rebirthing: Conscious Connected Breathing. Presenter: Kali Thompson. Description: Rebirthing is a process of conscious connected breathing that brings awareness to our physical body. This Spiritual purification tool reminds us that Spirit (inspiration) is as close to us as our breath. This tool addresses being aware of our deep- down unconscious feelings. The benefits of this experience is to release judgements against the body and its functions, awareness of the natural state of having a body, listening deeply to emotional intelligence, and having a connection to the natural world.

Workshop: “African American Strategies for Success in White Academia” Presenter: Carnita Groves, BA. Description: This workshop will explore strategies to help maximize the success of African American undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate level students in predominantly white institutions. Participants will have opportunity to share their experiences and receive support for their respective journeys from a panel of students who are currently at predominantly white institutions or who have recently graduated from one.

Symposium: African-American Men in the New Millennium. Presenter: Joseph L. White, Ph.D. Description: African-American men face particularly difficult challenges in the upcoming years. The stereotypes and projected expectations of white America often function to limit and/or impair opportunities for African-American men. This workshop will address these issues and identify the true nature of the struggle facing African-American men as they attempt to develop their identity, establish truly intimate relationships, cope with racism, and find sources of strength to enhance their African-American way of being. Dr. Joseph L. White, co-author of Black Man Emerging and The Psychology of Blacks, will draw from his forty years of experience as a champion for African-American men to amplify these issues.

Workshop: Using Historical Research: Reconstructing the Psychosocial Impact of Enslavement & Reconstruction- The McEldery Family of Tallageda County, Alabama. Presenter: Nettie Obleton, Ph.D. Description: This presentation will address some of the perceived psychological wounds from enslavement and reconstruction through reconstructing the psychosocial history of enslavement and reconstruction days. Participants will be encouraged to engage in dialogue by sharing the documentation of their family history as an approach to data gathering on African American families.

1:30 pm –3:00 pm

Workshop: For Students Only: Surviving Graduate School While Maintaining Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health. Presenters: Michelle Mitchell, MA & Michelle Owens, Ph.D. Description: This workshop will focus on the concept that building and maintaining a healthy village begins with preparation in graduate school as students learn how to manage stressors that often present in graduate school. In this presentation the presenters describe some of the challenges and pitfalls faced by graduate students in general and African American students in particular.

Workshop: Nurturing & Protecting African Diaspora Children So That They Will Love Their Hair: The Importance of Self-Love to Healthy Psychological Functioning in a Hostile Environment. Presenters: Lisa Whitten, Ph.D. & Imarogbe, MA

Description: Participants will learn the following objectives: 1) The significance of the psycho-social significance of hair in the African Diaspora; 2) Gain insight into the meaning and symbolism of hair in their own lives; 3) How to generate ideas about how childrearing practices that can be enhanced so that our children can love their hair; and 4) Will begin to heal some of the wounds of the MAAFA and their own personal childhood and other experiences in relation to their hair.

Paper Session: African American Leadership: Success in Transitional Environments- An Alternative Perspective on Leadership Development. Presenter: Aaron Aure. Description: This paper will focus on the process that African Americans go through in their leadership development and how this process may inform general theories on this subject.

Paper Session: Managing Diversity: An Africentric Perspective. Presenter: Pam Shipp, Ph.D. Description: This presentation will focus on the unique opportunity for African leaders to leverage the chaos in companies and organizations. An Africentric perspective is the best perspective to handle the diversity needed in organizations.

Workshop: Rebel-Trickster-Betrayer (storytelling). Presenter: Larry Coleman, Ph.D. Description: This performance/discussion/workshop by two professional storytellers will explore three archetypes (common character types, symbols and relationships that recur in the myths, legends, folktales and dreams of the human race). The presenters will explore where these archetypes show up in our stories and folklore, how they manifest as experiences in our lives and the possibility they represent for healing as we learn to transform.

Workshop: The African Way: Healing Body, Mind & Spirit. Presenter: Jahsasamat Apautu. Description: This workshop will focus on the Afro-Centric approach to wholistic healing. Participants will be expected to discuss and honor their sacred self, discuss the power of adopting a wholistic view of health, identify various methods of healing, identify how to nurture our relationships with others, and to experience guided meditation.

Think Tank: African American Men in the New Millennium. Presenters: Fredrick Phillips, Psy.D., Thomas Parham, Ph.D., Daniel Williams, Ph.D., and Robert Williams, Ph.D. Discussant- Robert L. Atwell, Psy.D. Description: African-American men face particularly difficult challenges in the upcoming years. The stereotypes and projected expectations of white America often function to limit and/or impair opportunities for African-American men. This think tank will be a complement to the Symposium on African-American Men in the New Millennium. The think tank will provide a forum for attendees to expand on the ideas and energy emerging in the African-American Men Symposium.

Paper Session: Family Characteristics as Predictors of Life Course Expectations Among Urban African American Girls in Early Adolescence. Presenters: Melba Reed & Faye Belgrave.

Paper Session: Social Support Resources for Parents of Newly Diagnosed Infants With Sickle Cell Disease: The Grandparent Program. Presenter: Renee Robinson, Ph.D.

Workshop: Sexual Abuse & The Adolescent Offender: A Public Health Issue. Presenter: Saundra Johnson & Claudette Johnson. Description: The workshop will address the challenge of developing effective treatment approaches for those working with the adolescent who sexually abuses.

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Business Meeting

Friday August 3

8:45 am -10:15 am

Workshop: Afrikan Fatherhood/Manhood and the Family: Implications for Healing a Nation. Presenter: Kevin Washington, Ph.D. Description: The workshop describes a 7-week program that is designed to promote optimal fatherhood and manhood functioning through bringing together fathers to participate in discussions, workshops and spiritual enhancement seminars.

Workshop: Embracing the Authentic Self: Eliminating the Impact of the Idealized Standard of Beauty on Women of African Descent¹s Hair Experiences. Presenter: Evelyn Winfield. Description: This workshop will cover the following areas: 1) Increased understanding of barriers to the development of a strong African identity as it relates to women of African descent’s hair experiences; 2) Learn strategies to facilitate a process of embracing one’s authentic physical characteristics toward developing and maintaining a positive African image and 3) Learn how to integrate strategies into teaching and clinical practice.

Paper Session: An African Centered Approach to Empowering Black Woman. Presenter: Deidre Sermons, Psy.D. Description: The paper will present a qualitative view of an African-centered approach to empowering Black women with the intent of evaluating a program designed to allow Black women the opportunity to enter into a healing discussion with other Black women that can relate to their plight.

Paper Session: Unhealthy Alliances of Internationalized Racialism. Presenter: Denise Hatter, Ph.D. Description: This paper addresses findings from a larger study wherein the relationship between self esteem, racial identity, depression, perceived overall well being, internalized racialism and violence were examined in a sample of African American youth.

Paper Session: Racial Self-Designation and Disorder in Afrikan American Psychiatric Patients. Presenter: Arthur Whaley, Ph.D. Description: The presentation emphasizes the need to extend research on African American identity to psychiatric settings.

Paper Session: Relationships Between Age, Gender & Socioeconomic Status & Community Values for African & White Americans. Presenters: Demetria Logan & Faye Belgrave. Description: Communal values are the foundation of a healthy community. This study will help researcher’s understand exactly how communal values function among African Americans and Whites and how to promote better intraethnic interaction.

Paper Session: What’s on the Nation’s Health Agenda for the Next Decade? Healthy People 2010 and Opportunities to Improve Health in Africa America. Presenter: Kathleen McDuffie. Description: This presentation will begin with an overview of the Healthy People 2010 goals, followed by a discussion of the 10 leading health indicators, and the 28 focus areas. There will be a special discussion on mental health issues and all will be discussed in the context of African Americans.

10:30 am -12 pm

Workshop: Tai Chi & Chi Kung For Health. Presenter: Nadim Ali. Description: The objectives of this workshop are: 1) To make the participants aware of internal martial arts; 2) To give participants a greater appreciation of TAI CHI/CHI KUNG as a health management tool; 3) To educate participants about the therapeutic benefits of TAI CHI/CHI KUNG; and 4) To present participants a beneficial intervention for the health concerns of the African American community.

Workshop: A Gathering of Men: Building the Male Support Group. Presenter: Adeyemi Bandele. Description: A Gathering of Men is designed to model the support group process for males, age 14 and up. The support group creates a space to allow males to share their joy and challenges.

Workshop: Ritual 101:What’s the Difference Between The Communion of Blood & the Body & Ripple & Wonder Bread. Presenter: Opalanga Pugh & the Ritual Committee. Description: Building upon the spiritual foundation of the earlier MAAT retreat, the ABPsi Ritual committee presents a sacred/secular space for participants to develop a personal and professional rite of passage for working within our communities. Focus will include expanding the theoretical frame of MAAT principles and how rituals can be incorporated in outreach and consultation work with students.

Paper Session: Family Characteristics as Predictors of Life Course Expectations Among Urban African American girls in Early Adolescence. Presenter: Melba Reed & Faye Belgrave. Description: This discussion has implications for policies and prevention programs that focus on the impact of adult supervision on the expectations of urban African American girls.

Paper Session: Social Support Resources for Parents of Newly Diagnosed Infants With Sickle Cell Disease: The Grandparent Program. Presenter: Renee Robinson, Ph.D. Description: This paper will focus on an innovative program designed to help new parents of infants with Sickle Cell disease develop creative solutions in the management of disease related problems and social-emotional concerns across development.

Paper Session: Domestic Violence in African American Women: An African-Centered Intervention. Presenter: John Queener, Ph.D., Shatiece Riley, MA & Stephanie Ford, MA. Description: The presenters propose a creative approach to the delivery of services to African American women who are victims of domestic violence. The purpose of this project is two-fold: Increase the member of African American women who utilize services for victims of domestic violence; and develop African-centered interventions.

Symposium: African-American Women in the New Millennium. Presenter: To Be Announced. Description: African-American women face particularly difficult challenges in the upcoming years. The stereotypes and projected expectations of white America often function to limit and/or impair opportunities for African-American women. This workshop will address these issues and identify the true nature of the struggle facing African-American women as they attempt to develop their identity, establish truly intimate relationships, cope with racism, and find sources of strength to enhance their African-American way of being.

1:30 pm –3:00 pm

Poster Session: The Effect of Family & Peer Support on the Self-Esteem of African American Preadolescents. Presenter: Wehmah Jones. Description: Children are an important part of the “village” therefore providing information about the factors that influence the development of positive self-esteem will help to produce healthier children.

Poster Session: Aversion to Incarcerating Males: An Afrocentric Introspection Model Alternatives Instituted by Mandela. Presenter: Madakini McSweeney-Johnson, MA. Description: The poster will focus on the holistic approach in the prevention of incarcerating male adolescent population.

Poster Session: Collective Action and Political Ideology: A Multidimensional Measure of Black Activism. Presenter: Osecla Thomas, MA. Description: Through collective action Blacks can build a healthy community.

Poster Session: Capacity Building Mechanisms For Community-Based Organization Providing HIV/AIDS Prevention/Intervention to African American. Presenter: Deidre Sermons, Psy.D.

Symposium: Getting-In: A Symposium for Undergraduate Students Interested in Graduate School. Presenter: Satira Streeter

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

Workshop: Licensing Challenges for African American Psychologists in the New Millennium. Presenters: Robert Atwell, Psy.D., Wil Counts, Ph.D., Arthur C. Jones, Ph.D., and Carmen Williams, Ph.D. Description: Changes in licensing laws and disciplinary rules create constant challenges for psychologists needing to meet the health care needs of the African-American community. The task of keeping abreast of these issues is made even more taxing by the demands frequently placed on African-American clinicians by our limited numbers in comparison with the needs of our community. In addition, new issues related to managed care restrictions, telehealth and Internet therapy opportunities, and the possibility of prescription privileges for psychologists are creating even more strain and confusion. This workshop will address: Obtaining and keeping a license to practice, Licensure mobility between states, Avoiding disciplinary action, and national regulatory issues.

Think Tank: Afrikan Centered Organizational Structure Development. Kevin Washington, Ph.D. Description: The Committee on Afrikan Centered Organizational Structure is charged with the task of establishing and maintaining the organizational structure of ABPsi that is consistent with our Afrikanity and that compliments our Afrikaness. This think tank is advanced to elucidate ways that we can resurrect principles and ethics that are consistent with our Afrikanity.

Workshop: Inward Journey: African American Council; Underground Railroad Training Odyssey. Presenters: A. Lewis, & C. Lewis. Description: This presentation utilizes role-play, guided imagery and ritual process to guide participants through a short and powerful journey back into the times of the African Diaspora. Participants will be asked to access their core feelings based on what they witnessed and visualized. Space will be made for participants to explore their judgements and feelings around the mythical journey. Participants will also be introduced to a different form of communication based on archetypal energy patterns and the concept of individual and collective shadow.

Think Tank : The Christian Worldview and African Thoughts, Ideas & Practices: Are They Compatible? Presenter: Karen Wilson-Starks, Ph.D. Description: This think tank is proposed as a venue for the membership to explore similarities and differences between Christianity and African ideas and practices. To build a healthy village for the millennium, we must consider the importance of spiritual health as expressed in both beliefs and practices.

Think Tank: On African American Women in the New Millennium. Presenters: Yvonne Bell, Ph.D., Harvette Grey, Ph.D., Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D., Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., Discussant: Gayle Hamlett, Psy.D. Description: African-American women face particularly difficult challenges in the upcoming years. The stereotypes and projected expectations of white America often function to limit and/or impair opportunities for African-American women. This think tank will be a complement to the Symposium on African-American Women in the New Millennium. The think tank will provide a forum for attendees to expand on the ideas and energy emerging in the African-American Women Symposium.

Saturday, August 4

9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Training Institute: API Psychology Institute. (Involves extra fees.)

7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Presidential Enstollment

Sunday, August 5

8:00 am – 10:00 am

Board of Directors’ Meeting

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Meeting of The ABPsi General Assembly

Hotel Information

Hyatt Regency Denver

1750 Welton Street

Denver, Colorado

Room Reservations: (303) 295-1234, (800) 223-1234

When making lodging reservations specify that you are with the Association of Black Psychologists.

Room Rates

Single Occupancy - $135.00

Double Occupancy - $150.00

Triple Occupancy - $165.00

Quadruple Occupancy - $190.00