How Are Our Children? A Dialogue
| Autor: | Virginia Q. Anthony, Thomas F. Anders |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Child Psychiatry
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject No reference Media studies Public policy Psychiatry and Mental health Friendship Adolescent Psychiatry Political science Workforce Developmental and Educational Psychology Child and adolescent psychiatry medicine Humans Opening ceremony Societies Medical media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 52:674-676 |
| ISSN: | 0890-8567 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jaac.2013.04.017 |
| Popis: | irginia Q. Anthony (VQA): Tom, do you remember our first meeting? VThomas F. Anders (TFA): Yes, it was 1973 in Washington, D.C., and the first Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) for both of us. It was the beginning of a long-lasting friendship. VQA: What I remember is the excitement. It was my first 6 months with the Academy and my first Annual Meeting, not just with the Academy, but ever, so I really had no reference. The president of the Academy at the time, Al Solnit, was in Israel during a time of an “almost” war, and I worried about him, and, of course, about whether he could/would show up. He had delegated finding an opening plenary speaker to Joe Noshpitz, the president-elect, and me. That was when I really learned about Washington and its election cycles: if you weren’t campaigning, you were junketing. Those were the days of snail mail, so each invitation to a senator took 3 weeks to receive a “no.” In the end, Joe wrote a superb plenary: “Toward A Public Policy on Children.” It became a precedent that each president-elect would give the opening ceremony’s plenary address. Forty years agowe never would have imagined the Academy’s growth, our personal friendship, and that you would go on not only to become president, but also lead our only 10-year priority: to increase our workforce numbers. That meeting in 1973 was one of many firsts: the first time the Assembly ever met and the first |
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