Public Policy & Social Justice
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC POLICY
Aloha.
I am honored to occupy the important position of social justice and public policy representative for Division 29, my professional home in APA.
As a full-time private practitioner, sometime graduate school instructor, and active member of my State Psychological Association I am always aware of the impact of our work, both direct and indirect, on the welfare of others. A long-standing member of the Division of Peace Psychology, during my term on the Council of Representatives I was involved with the debates and initiatives of the social justice divisions. As a member and co-chair of the Committee on Rural Health, I worked with colleagues to try to improve access to care and quality of service available to our rural and frontier populations, and to support psychologists working in these regions. Practicing in Hawai`i allows me to work with people of many different cultural, ethnic, and linguistic groups, and I am very concerned that psychology address the needs of all minority groups in our society. I have an international background myself: born in India to British parents, and married to a Turkish man, I have lived in Europe, the Middle East and Hawaii. In my current capacity as past-president of the Hawai`i Psychological Association, I am dealing with many aspects of public policy that affect our clients and us as practitioners. Besides constant vigilance on the third-party payment front and the RxP agenda, we are working hard to broaden parity for mental health.
Rosemary Adam-Terem, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Past-president of Hawai`i Psychological Association
Chair of HPA Ethics Committee
1833 Kalakaua Avenue, Suite 800
Honolulu, HI 96815
