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Biography
W. Bruce Walsh, Ph. D. (University of Iowa), is Professor Emeritus
in the Department of Psychology at The Ohio State University. Walsh
is the founder and charter editor of the Journal of Career
Assessment and the Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology.
He has coauthored and coedited 24 books. In 1998 he served as
President of the Society of Counseling Psychology. From 1990 to 2002
he served as the Director of Training for the Counseling Psychology
Program at Ohio State. In 2004 he received the Leona Tyler Award
from the Society of Counseling Psychology in recognition of
outstanding accomplishments. He holds Fellow status in APA, APS, and
is licensed as a psychologist in Ohio.
Statement
Current social, political, and economic trends present the science
and practice of psychology with significant challenges. All too
often the news includes headlines that raise in the public’s mind
questions about psychology’s scientific and professional
contributions. I believe the APA Council of Representatives must
attempt to provide both consumers and policy makers with a greater
amount of large scale outcome results from the professional practice
of psychology and, in addition, attempt to translate how the science
of psychology is being applied to the major social problems that
have the public’s greatest attention. In this context, we also need
to expand ideas about how psychologists practice and how best to
prepare them for the 21st century. In addition, I am
committed to pursuing and providing tangible membership benefits for
both academicians and practitioners and to getting more
psychologists actively involved in advocacy for both our discipline
and those we serve. Finally, I am committed to aggressively
increasing diversity among our professional ranks and in integrating
multiculturalism and social justice within the Association.
I believe very strongly in what counseling psychology has to offer
and hope to be a continuing part of making things happen as a
Council Representative.
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