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Editor’s Corner

SoAP Box: 
Editor's Corner

Summer 2019

Dana Litt

Dana Litt, PhD
Editor
 
Jennifer Cadigan, PhD
Assistant Editor
 

Summer is here!  As much as I wish I could say I’ve been spending my days poolside, my assistant editor Jennifer Cadigan and I have been diligently working to bring you the Summer issue of the newly revamped SoAP Box. Now that everyone is hopefully settling into the new format, I wanted to ask you all to please be sure to click through all the articles in both the past issue and this current issue.  One of things we want to be able to track are metrics of how often articles are read, so please help us boost our presence online!  For those people who prefer a more traditional newsletter, I have also compiled a very basic PDF newsletter where you can find all of the content in one place.      

I am so pleased that we are still receiving great submissions from our SoAP members as your input, feedback, and information is critical to the success of this newsletter.  These columns are only as successful as the entries we get, so please don’t be shy and share your stories!  

This current issue includes a report on the wildly successful 2019 Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) Conference that was held in April as well as several important announcements related to Division Programming at APA this August. Attending these conferences is a great way to not only share your work but to learn about ways to get involved in our division.   We are also fortunate to have Rob Leeman share his “Finding Success in Failure” story and some really great member feedback in “SoAP Box Soundbites”, “Show and Tell”, and “Community Corner”. As always, Nancy Piotrowski has written another great Advocate’s Alcove Column where she covers the most recent advocacy-related issues relevant to our division.   We also have a wonderful Clinical Translation piece by Alicia Klanecky and Erika Ruhnke that discusses how their recently published work related to how a better understanding of negatively reinforcing effects of alcohol can be addressed in clinical settings. This issue is full of great ECP information including a list of award winners and great advice by Christine Vinci regarding selecting a clinical internship and/or postdoctoral fellowship.  Finally, be sure to check out the announcements page to learn more about a new service as well as job postings.

We are welcome to any ideas you all may have about making the SoAP box as relevant to all of our readers as possible, so please don’t be shy!

For the next issue, I am hoping to continue soliciting new content. I am so excited about the submissions we received this time and I am hopeful that more people will feel comfortable submitting content in the coming issues.  Please submit any of the content requested below to me (dana.litt@unthsc.edu) by October 1, 2019.

-SoAP Box Sound Bites. In 50 words or less, please respond to the following prompt—What do you think is the most interesting or important area of research in addiction psychology and why? 

 -Show and Tell.  This is the place to show off your recent accomplishments, accolades, awards and/or to and highlight the cool ways in which you promote your lab (websites, Facebook pages, Instagram accounts, etc.). Send us a link and description of your current projects, awards, or media attention you may have received, and any other information that you would like to share with our readers. Please limit responses to 200 words.

-Community Corner.  For the coming issue, we want to hear about what responsibility, if any, do you think we as addiction psychologists have to the community? Please limit responses to 200 words.

 -Clinical Translation.  Do you have any recently published work that you wish you would have had more room in the manuscript to discuss clinical implications and applications?  We would love for you all to share recently published work and give us more information about how your research findings could be useful for clinicians.  Please limit responses to 1,000 words.

-Finding Success in Failure.  In line with the recent trend of prominent academics and clinicians sharing their “CVs of Failures”, we want to hear about a time in your career that things didn’t go your way. For this next issue, we want to hear about a time when you worked with a challenging patient/client.  What is your process for managing this experience, what did you learn from the experience, and what would you recommend to others who are working with a challenging patient/client? Please limit responses to 500 words.

-Ethical Issues.  In this column, we are looking for articles focused on describing ethical issues you may come across in your research and/or addiction-related clinical practice.  Specifically, we want to hear what the ethical issue was, how you handled it, and lessons learned. Some examples could be issues related to googling patients, how you handled it when a patient contacted you on social media, or what happens when you run into a research participant out in the real world. Please limit responses to 500 words.

If you have any suggestions for how we can make TAN more relevant and impactful for you, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Wanting to see articles on a specific topic? Send your topic ideas to me for upcoming issues. I am always open to ideas for new columns, hot topics to cover, or anything else you think would be useful for our readers. 

     

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