The American Psychological Association (APA) has announced that Dr. Donald N. Bersoff, Drexel University professor and national expert on legal and ethical issues in mental health, has been elected 2013 president.
Bersoff serves on the faculties of Drexel's psychology department and Earle Mack School of Law, where he directs the JD/PhD programme in law and psychology. He edited the landmark book Ethical Conflicts in Psychology, now in its fourth edition, and has written more than 100 publications and papers on the interaction of law, psychology and public policy.
Bersoff was the APA's first general counsel, from 1979 to 1989, during which he authored 50 briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal and state courts.
Elected to three terms on the APA Council of Representatives, he served as president of the American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41) and chairman of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Mental Disability Law.
The American Psychological Association claims to be the largest scientific and professional organisation representing psychology in the US. Its membership includes more than 154,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. Through its divisions in 54 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 60 state, territorial and Canadian provincial associations, APA works to advance psychology as a science, as a profession and as a means of promoting health, education and human welfare.
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