| Description | Minutes, papers and correspondence of the British Psychological Society's Books and Special Projects Group concerning proposed BPS publications.
14 January 1988 BPS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including terms of reference, annual report; proposed publications 'Fairness and Efficiency', 'Career Choices in Psychology';
10 March 1988 BPS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including Russian translation for Psychology and Science Fiction, 'Learning to Talk' 'Manage Your Own Career', 'Counselling People with AIDS'; 'Putting Psychology to Work', video on interviewing sexually abused children; terms of reference;
28 April 1988 BPS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including costs for producing videos; revisions of 'manage Your Own Career and 'Putting Psychology to Work'; group membership; proposed work ' Issues in AIDS Counselling; British Occupational Psychology: Its Changing Fortunes After The First World War'; translations of works from Russian; titles in production;
27 June 1988 BPS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including proposals and updates on - 'Teaching Psychology: A Handbook of Resources', 'Encountering the Development of Exceptional Abilities', 'Managing Stress', 'Psychology for Psychiatrists', 'New Developments in Statistics Volume II and 'Sense and Nonsense about Hot House Children'; Swedish books; Italian translation of 'Classroom Control';
7 September 1988 BPS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including proposals ' Psychology for Psychiatric Nurses', ' 'Sense and Nonsense about Hot House Children', 'Introduction to Experimental Design and Statistics for A Level', 'Smoking', 'Facing Physical Violence', 'Social Skills', Information Processing in Sport and 'Anxiety' and 'Living With Angina'; subsystems survey 'BPS Books What Next?'; translations of Psychological Aspects of Nuclear War into Japanese, Drink to Your Health in German, Psychology and You into Dutch and Italian; 'An Authors Guide to the Media' guidance document.
14 October 1988 BPS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including terms of reference and potential conflict of interest of Group members; proposed revised edition of 'Psychological Care', proposed 'Psychotherapy in Society'; progress of 'Behavioural Medicine; 'New Developments in Statistics for Psychology and the Social Sciences Vol II';
21 November 1988 PS Books and Special Projects Group agenda, minutes, papers and correspondence including ILEA video collection; proposals including 'Psychology for Nurses' 'Benefits of Psychology', 'Experimental Design and Statistics', 'Psychology in Action Psychology and Sport', 'Growing, 'Managing People at Work', Psychology for Psychiatric Nurses', 'Women's Inner and Outer Worlds' and 'Social Skills'
Russell Wicks. Chairman. |
| AdminHistory | The Books and Special Projects Group BSPG was originally conceived as a successor of the Standing Committee on Publications. It ran in parallel with a Journals Group. Both groups were created after a restructure in 1983 and reported to the F&GP [Finance and General Purposes Committee]. The BPSG took over the role of considering the practical elements and proposals of publishing books, reports and other material. A publications manager was employed to manage this function. Publication proposals were submitted or commissioned and then if supported sample chapters and background on the author was requested. These were read by members of the group or other reviewers who then sent in written comments for the Group to discuss at their meetings.
The BPSG was superseded by the Editorial Support Group in c. 2001 when a contract was signed with Wiley to publish BPS books. |
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