Bill Wallace (A Conversation in a Bar)

The dialogue is concerned to do two things. In the first place it seeks to display the extreme difficulty of discussing conceptual issues with students whose academic backgrounds are the social sciences. Its point is not to criticize any element of those disciplines per se, but to illustrate the sort of misunderstandings which many beginning students appear to acquire from them. The second point is to offer a reminder that perhaps the part of philosophizing which requires the most care is the stating of just the question which one wishes to raise ‐ the getting into position, as it were, to think to any end.     

The Development of a Code for Australian Psychologists

Section 35(1)(c) of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (2009 Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act of 2009. (Queensland).  [Google Scholar]) requires the newly formed Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) “to develop or approve standards, codes and guidelines.” In 2010 the PsyBA decided to initially adopt the Australian Psychological Society's (APS) Code of Ethics (2007 Australian Psychological Society. 2007. Code of ethics, Melbourne, , Australia: Author.  [Google Scholar]) and develop a new code in the future with the involvement of key stakeholders without deciding what the nature of this code will be. The PsyBA now has to decide exactly how it will proceed in future. My aim in this article is to examine the options available to the PsyBA by exploring the definition and function of codes; presenting a history of the APS Code; and considering approaches that had been followed in Europe, Israel, New Zealand, and South Africa.     

About the authors

Due to limitations inherent in official statistics and surveys the authors conducted a partial test of the deterrence doctrine within the carefully controlled environment of a laboratory experiment. Participants in the experiment were male volunteers enrolled in college classes. The primary variables studied were certainty, severity, and celerity of punishment, and the situations of general deterrence (threatened punishment) and specific deterrence (actual punishment).

It was found that certainty and severity of punishment had substantial effects in situations of actual punishment, but that celerity did not. For general deterrence, only certainty of punishment was effective. In addition, specific deterrence was not significantly more effective than general deterrence.     

An Exploratory Model and Initial Test of the Influence of Firm Level Consulting-Oriented Sales Force Programs on Sales Force Performance

This study investigates several proposed relationships between consulting-oriented sales force programs and long run growth of industrial organizations. To operationalize the proposed model, the work introduces twenty-two new measures of consulting-oriented sales programs. Relationships are tested using a sample of industrial sales managers and corresponding, longitudinal firm performance data. Initial consulting-oriented sales training is the strongest influence on firm performance. Evidence suggests combining this training with consulting-oriented ongoing training, evaluation, and compensation programs.     

Multimodal Exposure-Based Group Treatment for Peacekeepers With PTSD: A Preliminary Evaluation

Group therapy can effectively reduce posttraumatic stress symptoms. However, the available literature on multifaceted programs for military samples is limited and available studies typically do not evaluate outcomes on a broad range of related problems. This study describes a retrospective evaluation of a multimodal, exposure-based group treatment program for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and associated symptoms in 22 peacekeeping veterans who successfully completed treatment. Treatment consisted of exposure-based CBT, case management, psycho-education, creative arts therapy, psychomotor therapy, psychodrama, and socio-therapy, which were provided one day a week for approximately 21 months. Analysis of pre- and posttreatment assessments showed that coping styles and professional and personality functioning had improved and that anxiety, somatic, depressive, and PTSD symptoms were reduced after treatment. Because significant improvement was observed on several parameters, the program may have successfully addressed a broad range of problems frequently reported by veterans with complex and chronic PTSD.