Threads That Bind Us Together.

Influences that maintain a reasonable degree of unity in APGA are presented following a description of the Association as a conglomerate of 8 divisions with members whose widely varying characteristics do not qualify them as a single professional group. The similarity of members, particularly with respect to liking people and wanting to help them, is recognized as one cohesive agent. Need for mutual support and a common dependence on psychology are the other unifying agents described. Evidence on ambivalence about acceptance of the latter is set forth and the position is taken that better recognition by APCA members of psychology as their basic discipline is essential to their functioning distinctively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]