PILC Responses, 2016 September 19

PILC RESPONSES
 
1)
Please provide a description of the supplemental educational 
resources/skill building tools to be developed.
An executive summary type overview of the SIP Commentary, a 
sample Powerpoint presentation about the SIP Commentary, and a 
discussion guide that includes questions and discussion points for each
of the major Standards in the APA Ethics Code.
2)
Please provide additional information about Budget Item #3. 
This is unclear to us, and appears to include multiple items or 
lines.
Item number 3 is the purchase of ISBNs for the Commentary. An ISBN 
(International Standard Book Number) is needed for the Library of 
Congress to catalogue the Commentary. Academic as well as public 
libraries need the ISBN in order to catalogue and file the Commentary 
in their collection. Booksellers need it in to locate the SIP Commentary 
for their customers. Since the SIP Commentary is available both on-line
as a pdf and in hard copy, each version requires a separate ISBN. The 
process to request and obtain an ISBN requires a standard fee of $125 
for each version of the SIP Commentary.
3)
Please provide a description of a proactive recruitment plan to 
better ensure participation by the Directors of Mental Health 
agencies and Professional Psychology Training Programs. We 
are concerned that distribution of the packet by email with 
follow-up reminders may not be sufficient to engage the target 
audience.
We will use contacts with training programs and mental health clinics 
that have active SIP members present. We are confident that having a 
SIP member will increase the likelihood of engagement in the 
dissemination of the SIP Commentary. We recognize that to have full 
reach, we will need to figure out how to reach programs without SIP 
members, so we will randomly select an equal number of MH and 
Training programs (relative to those with whom we have SIP members 
present) to examine effective outreach and recruitment tactics. We will
also request a support letter from the APA Ethics Committee and BAPPI
to accompany each dissemination packet that is sent out to programs 
and clinics.
4)
Please provide specific learning objectives related to your 
specific aims and describe the criteria for success to be used.
Specific Learning Objectives: A comprehensive evaluation plan will be developed and 
pilot tested during the October to December, 2016 time period.   Learning objectives will 
be closely matched to the aims identified in the proposal (e.g., educators can understand 
and develop training curriculum that recognize the close relationship between culture and
ethics, students are able to identify specific Native cultural values that are important to 
include in their ethical reasoning and decision making, providers are able to demonstrate 
an understanding the relationship between ethical practice and cultural 
competence/humility).   
Criteria for Measuring Success:  We plan to use survey questions for measuring 
success like those recommended by the APA Office of Continuing Education.   For 
example, “How much did you learn as a result of your experience being exposed to the 
SIP Commentary? or How useful was the SIP Commentary for improving your practice 
or other professional development?”. In addition, the evaluation plan will include 
assessment of the quality and usefulness of each of the supplemental educational 
resources (e.g., PowerPoint slides, discussion guide) by students, instructors, and 
providers. Also we plan to measure the change in knowledge for students, instructors, and
mental health providers associated with specific learning objectives.  Possible knowledge 
items for inclusion in the evaluation plan include (a) cultural influences on ethics (e.g., 
importance of relationships both immediate (family and community) and long term 
(seven generations past or yet to come), the importance of the connection to nature, the 
importance of spirituality in everyday life) and (b) knowledge about influences of 
implicit bias on ethics.   We also plan to assess instructor knowledge, and teaching 
confidence related to the learning objectives.