title: Commentary: The Wright Ross Salk Award: Worker Bees and Benefits to the Hive: Service Contributions to the Profession and Society of Pediatric Psychology.
abstract: This article reflects on service contributions upon receiving the 2016 Society of Pediatric Psychology Wright Ross Salk Distinguished Service Award. As the title implies, worker bees make service contributions for the overall benefit of the hive and colony. So too, the scientific discipline, clinical profession, and the Society of Pediatric Psychology need the service contributions of multiple individuals to survive and thrive. Many people have made professional contributions to benefit the field and its organizational home; many more worker bees will volunteer in the future to fill important service roles and sustain the hive. The article discusses lessons learned about service.
authors.affiliation: Office of Graduate Studies and Clinical Child Psychology Program, University of Kansas mroberts@ku.edu.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D002666:Psychology, Child / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014838:Volunteers
keywords: children; health care services; professional and training issues