Ball State University has had the honor to have been selected by Cleveland State University for the 2016-2019 Student Affiliates of Seventeen (SAS) Host Institution term. SAS is an organization that welcomes graduate and undergraduate students alike in counseling psychology. The purposes of SAS as an organization are to (a) increase membership and member engagement, (b) provide students with learning and networking opportunities, and (c) highlight student accomplishments. To achieve the aforementioned goals, four distinct committees were established. The chairs of the Scholarship, Engagement, and Collaboration (SEC) committee have worked to conceptualize and implement initiatives focused on communication and collaboration between diverse groups of students and professionals within the field of counseling psychology. A committee new to SAS is Prevention and Promotion in Mental Health. Chairs of this committee are dedicated to encouraging and supporting student engagement in prevention work, particularly in mental health. The Social Justice and Advocacy committee members continued to facilitate and increase conversations around social justice and advocacy issues. The chairs of the Multiculturalism committee focused on the expansion of awareness in multicultural engagement in research and practice. Reflecting on the last year and a half serving as the host institution for SAS, there are many activities we have performed to accomplish our goals and many more that we have not yet realized.

In this study we replicated and extended Wetter and Corrigan's ( 1995 ) commonly cited convenience survey of attorneys and law students regarding their attitudes toward coaching litigants prior to forensic psychological testing. We conducted a target survey of attorneys practicing in specialty areas of law where it is common to enlist psychological testing as part of legal proceedings (family law, juvenile law, personal injury, criminal law, social security/disability, workman's compensation). The estimated prevalence of attorneys who endorse providing their clients with information about the presence of MMPI-2 validity scales is 53%, with a 95% confidence interval of ±7%. Compared with Wetter and Corrigan's results of 63%, this represents a slightly lower estimate of attorneys who indicate a positive attitude toward coaching their clients on the presence and purpose of validity scales. More than 70% of attorneys, in both surveys, believe they should provide general advice and preparation for psychological testing to their clients. Survey results were further analyzed as a function of attorney age, years in practice, and specialty area. Implications are discussed in relation to future research and the practice of forensic psychological evaluations.