Moving from Awareness to Action in Children’s Mental Health
What Everybody Ought to Know About Suicide
5 Things Congress Can Do To Protect the Rights of Parents with Disabilities
What Mother’s Day Means to Me As a Parent with A Disability
6 Protective Factors That Can Help to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
Finding Silver Linings After the Boston Marathon Bombings
10 Tips for Positive Aging: It’s Not Your Same Old Business
THEory into ACTion: Working with Communities to Reduce and Prevent Intimate Partner Violence
What a Child Learns About Violence
5 Essential Reasons to Keep Kids Out of Adult Jails
Isn’t It Time LGBT Individuals Were Federally Protected from Discrimination?
Four Suggestions for the Field of Child Maltreatment Prevention
Children and Youth »
Moving from Awareness to Action in Children’s Mental Health (3)
By Ileana Arias, PhD (Principal Deputy Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Last week I was pleased to present a keynote address on children’s mental health as a public health issue at a National Summit developed by APA’s Interdivisional Task Force on Children’s Mental Health. Did you know as many as 1 in 5… Read More ›
Human Rights »
5 Things Congress Can Do To Protect the Rights of Parents with Disabilities (0)
By Erin Andrews, PsyD, ABPP (APA Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology) My interest in parenting and disability goes beyond the professional. I am a rehabilitation psychologist, but I am also a disabled parent myself. In an earlier post, I described the experiences that parents like myself go through. Today, I intend to outline the… Read More ›
Violence »
Finding Silver Linings After the Boston Marathon Bombings (0)
By Eddy Ameen, PhD – Assistant Director, American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) During the four years that I lived in Boston in the mid 2000’s, I would make a point of watching the city’s marathon each April. The event was always more than just a finish line; it was about the joyous and… Read More ›
Aging »
10 Tips for Positive Aging: It’s Not Your Same Old Business (0)
By Manfred Diehl, PhD (Co-Chair, APA Committee on Aging) All of us are aging by the day, whether we are willing to admit it or not. We usually dread talking about getting older, but there is actually good news that should give us reason to embrace our own aging. The good news is: We can… Read More ›
LGBT Issues »
Psychology Should Inform SCOTUS Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage (1)
By Efua Andoh (PI Communications Staff) Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few years, you know that gay marriage is all over the news these days. Events are moving very fast with national polling indicating nearly two-thirds of Americans believe that same-sex marriage will become legal nationwide. Over here in Public Interest,… Read More ›
Poverty »
4 Ways Psychologists Can Serve Low-Income Families (0)
By Ieshia Haynie (Program Coordinator, Office of Socioeconomic Status) Don’t let the Dow Jones’ record highs fool you. Widespread and persistent poverty remains a national problem. The Census Bureau estimates that 46.2 million people now live below the official poverty line; the largest number in 52 years. As if that weren’t disheartening enough, 16.4 million… Read More ›
About »
PI Government Relations 101 (0)
By Micah Haskell-Hoehl (Senior Policy Associate, PI-Government Relations Office) A visitor to APA headquarters might walk out the main entrance and wonder about the building’s proximity to the Capitol Dome. If nothing else, it is a fitting reminder of APA’s numerous government relations staff working every day to make connections with Congress and the executive… Read More ›
