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January 31, 2014
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Dr. Catherine Deering Appointed
Director of Southeast Region of the
American Board of Clinical Psychology
“At a Theatre or Drive-in Near You…”
The Reprint of a 1995 Original
by Sarah Boyd
Dr. Catherine Deering, Clayton State
University professor of Psychology, has
been appointed as director of the
Southeast Region of the American Board
of Clinical Psychology. She began a four-
year term in January 2014.
In this position, Dr. Deering will oversee
and coordinate the written and oral exam-
inations for clinical psychologists from
Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Louisiana who are applying for national
board certification and fellow status. She
will also serve as board member and sec-
retary for the American Board of Clinical
Psychology and participate in their
national meetings.
The American Board of Clinical
Psychology (ABCP) is a member board of
the American Board of Professional
Psychology (ABPP). The ABPP authoriz-
es the credentialing activities of 13 spe-
cialty boards and establishes criteria for
education, training, competencies, and
examination. The ABCP is governed by a
Board of Directors who are certified in
Clinical Psychology and are representa-
tive of the specialty on a national basis.
Members of the
Board select,
mentor,
and
train
future
examiners.
Board certifica-
tion in Clinical
P s y c h o l o g y
requires candi-
dates to be con-
versant with sci-
entific and scholarly developments and to
apply them in professional practice.
Examiners explore the candidate’s ability
to discuss critically the implications of
contemporary knowledge and integration
of theory, research, and practice concern-
ing interpersonal interactions, issues of
individual and cultural diversity (e.g., eth-
nicity, race, gender, age, sexual orienta-
tion, disability status, and special popula-
tions), ethics and legal foundations, and
professional identification. Attention is
also paid to the candidate’s own scholarly
contributions as they inform practice.
Dr. Deering teaches in the undergraduate
psychology program and the master’s
program in Clinical Psychology at
Clayton State. She is a consulting psy-
chologist at the Atlanta V.A. Medical
Center and Associate Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at
the Emory University School of
Medicine. Dr. Deering teaches and super-
vises pre-doctoral psychology interns,
post-doctoral psychology fellows, and
psychiatry residents at Emory and the
V.A. Medical Center. She also serves on
the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Family Psychology and on the Board of
the Atlanta Group Psychotherapy Society.
Her publications focus on clinical super-
vision, group therapy, health psychology,
and psychiatric disorders.
Anyone who knows Dr. Randall Clark,
assistant professor of Journalism at
Clayton State University knows the depth
of his passion for films. Clayton State fac-
ulty and staff are given the opportunity to
see this passion through his outstanding
work and by simply having the pleasure
of knowing him. Students also get the
opportunity to see this passion through a
few of his film classes such as History of
Film, Film Genres and Introduction to
Media Studies.
Clark has recently received the word that
his book, “At a Theatre or Drive-in Near
You: The History Culture and Politics of
the American Exploitation Film,” is being
reprinted, without any revisions, from the
original publication in 1995. The new edi-
tion is available from Amazon and will be
available from Barnes and Noble this
month.
Clark originally
wrote this book
in the hope of
settling the con-
fusion between
e x p l o i t a t i o n
movies and B-
movies, more
c o m m o n l y
known
as
“ D r i v e - i n s . ”
Despite the fact
that many people believe these two are the
same, they most certainly are not, he
explains, noting that exploitation films are
low budget films with lots of sex, violence
and action. The term derives from the fact
that promoters of such films exploit the
contents through advertising that ulti-
mately heightens the sexual or violent
aspects of these films.
“These movies were kind of under the
radar and they were able to make social
statements that mainstream films couldn't
make as well as addressing social phe-
nomena while it was still happening,”
says Clark. His book is the first published
comprehensive study of the American
exploitation film.
The 248 page hardback discusses five
distinct genres: The Teen Movie, The
Sexploitation Film, The Martial Arts
Movie, The Blaxploitation Film and The
Deering
Clark
Clark, cont’d., p. 9