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A thoughtfully written thank you card goes a long way and will be most meaningful thing. If you must, something thoughtful or personal that reflects something you know about them. Books, something edible, or a record from that band you both like are about the right price level. I got some...

Looks like VA sec is getting chewed out by the senate committee, who are calling them out on freezing MH hiring in a number of locales, after saying specifically they weren't doing that: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/18/politics/senators-va-healthcare-staffing-invs/index.html

Picture seems unlikely to change until 2025 at least. As others are noting, hiring is still happening. At my hospital, unfilled supervisory roles seem like they are slated to take the most hits, though not exclusively. Oddly enough, they are making decisions here based on FTE rather than the...

Interview to hiring offer, can be quite quick (sometimes as soon as 24 hours after the last candidate is interviewed. Interview to start date is a different story, but I wouldn't expect anything under 3 months. This may be improving in some areas these days, but I don't have too much recent data...

I got frozen post-interview for a position while hospital administration publicly says "there is no hiring freeze! Just a re-consideration of the necessity of filling certain positions strategically"

nah, plenty of people were against torture in the aftermath of 9/11. which is why it was hotly reported on and debated publicly at the time and why there were psychologist whistleblowers yelling loudly about it at the time. If there was unanimous support for torture, the APA folks wouldn't have...

He was a bit less implicated than most of the others at the time, from what I recall. Though it is interesting that the APA was named a "best place to work" the literal year before the torture report came out... Which, speaking of deaths and torture, Jean Maria Arrigo died this past week. Was...

our hospital recently announced they are closing the staff gym permanently while continuing to fund six figure whole health staff to send us email reminders to exercise and lead a balanced lifestyle.

I went to a counseling psych program with a near perfect EPPP pass rate and have a few thoughts on it: I think who the program attracts makes as much of an impact as the curriculum - counseling psych programs may be more likely to take/attract students with more diverse backgrounds, including...

yeah, but also a shame that they moved in the direction of privatizing that whole service, rather than having psychologists employed by VBA or some other division to remove the conflict of interest.

I didn't see that statement, would you be willing to share it?

5.04 Media Presentations - particularly inaccurate statements about sex and gender/not based in evidence and out of line with the APA guidelines for practice with transgender individuals And 3.03 Other Harassment Psychologists do not knowingly engage in behavior that is harassing or demeaning to...

Probably, and at minimum, clearly defensible and understandable. Trust your gut that you trusted in that moment. You say she had "signs of a concussion" - based on her reporting there should have been a reason to believe she could have already been in the middle of an acute life threatening...

its TERFY bull****, embarrassing to have been written by licensed psychologists, and very clearly violates the APA code of ethics. Unlike some, I do think there should be space for good faith discussions about trade-offs, inclusive gender care with traumatized populations and the like, but...

just a warning that the move from gs11 to gs12 is not "automatic" and requires paperwork to be signed by various people and processed well in advance of that 1 year date...I have sadly seen folks lose out on thousands of dollars because they thought it would happen automatically, and unable to...