In 1984, a task force of the American Psychological Association (APA) Committee on Lesbian and Gay Concerns was charged with investigating bias in psychotherapy with lesbians and gay men. The task force surveyed a large and diverse sample of psychologists to elicit information about specific instances of respondent-defined biased and sensitive psychotherapy practice. Open-ended responses were used to separately identify major themes of biased and sensitive practice and to illustrate each with concrete examples. Results suggest that psychologists vary widely in their adherence to a standard of unbiased practice with gay men and lesbians. To bring individual practice into accord with APA policy will require continued and expanded efforts to educate practitioners about sexual orientation.

This study deals with the creativity of groups with a history of success or failure followed by 4 variations of group stability: the addition, replacement, or removal of a member, and a control condition in which the original group composition was maintained. Following an induction of group success or failure, 1 of the 3 variations of group composition change or the control condition was effected. The 64 experimental groups were initially composed of either 2, 3, or 4 persons, depending upon the experimental conditions; but following the stability conditions, all groups were comprised of 3 persons. The creativity task involved composing as many captions for a Saturday Evening Post cartoon as possible within a given time limit. The results indicate (p < .05) that groups which experienced membership changes (open groups) were more creative than the stable groups (closed groups).According to Guilford (1959), a distinguishing characteristic of the creative process is "divergent intellectual production" or the generation of a variety of mental responses. This investigation deals with the divergent intellectual productivity of laboratory groups with a history of success or failure followed by any one of four variations in group stability: the addition, replacement, or removal of a member, and a control condition in which the original group composition was maintained. The study also investigates the group's perceived probability of goal attainment under the same experimental conditions.Many social scientists have long held that creativity flourishes in societies where there is a continuous flow of new members and is curbed in societies from which strangers are restricted. The usual rationale for this proposition is that isolation results in highly specialized conceptual frameworks and rigid limitations on the kind of behavior deemed acceptable in a given situation (Redfield, 1947). Sorokin (1927), however, proposed that in a horizontally immobile society with its "permanent and monotonous environment, there is little incentive for invention." Can

It is vital to the interests of psychology as a scientific discipline and profession and to its stated goal of promoting human welfare that the public understand what psychologists do and who they are. The current popularity and prevalence of radio call-in psychology programs nationwide prompted this initial attempt to examine the phenomenon empirically. Two interlocked studies were conducted: One was a survey of 368 patrons in shopping malls in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas, and the second was a telephone survey of 122 persons who called one New York program, the latter interviewed immediately before, immediately after, and 3 months postcall. Results for the two groups are reported in terms of (a) knowledge about, experience with, and attitudes toward radio call-in programs as reflective of the public image of psychology and (b) the impact of this phenomenon on the population's understanding of mental health issues.Media psychology has emerged as a new specialty field within professional psychology. During the past 5 years, increasing numbers of psychologists have appeared on television programs as featured experts on the news; others have conducted in-depth interviews; many have served as consultants for films or television shows and have written popular books or newspaper columns; some have even written and produced their own features for film or television. The catalyst for this burgeoning blend of media and psychology has been the radio call-in psychology program, a controversial phenomenon that has been viewed as "boon" or "bane" (Bouhoutsos, 1981), depending on the vantage point of supporter or critic.The genesis of radio call-in psychology programs is frequently chronicled nostalgically by media oral historians who, like the first author, remember the Los Angeles Popenoe Institute of Family Relations radio programs of the JACQUELINE C. BOUHOUTSOS is founder/president of the Association for Media Psychology. A former member of the Code and Rating Administration of the Motion Picture Association of America, she currently is psychological consultant to members of the industry.

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