Systematic Training for Effective Parenting Systematic Training for Effective Parenting Systematic Training for Effective Parenting (STEP) is a parent education program published as a series of books. STEP was developed and published by the psychologists Don Dinkmeyer Sr., Gary D. McKay and Don Dinkmeyer Jr. The publication was supplemented by an extensive concept for training and proliferation. STEP has reached more than 4 million parents and has been translated into Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. Korean and Chinese adaptations are in progress. STEP is based on Alfred Adler's individual psychology and the work of the psychologists Rudolf Dreikurs and Thomas Gordon. An evaluation of the
Association of Black Psychologists launch programs to certify specialists in the practice of "African-centered psychology". Through these programs, practitioners are trained to tend to the specific needs of those of African ancestry. Past presidents of the Association of Black Psychologists include the following: Association of Black Psychologists The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) is a professional association of African American psychologists founded in 1968 in San Francisco, with regional chapters throughout the United States. It publishes the "Journal of Black Psychology". Its main offices are in Washington, D.C. The focuses of the ABPsi are to address the needs of black psychologists while also seeking