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How to Get Your Children to Eat Better, Brain’s Signaling Systems Might Determine PTSD Severit

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Dec 10, 20153 min read

Creating New Holiday Traditions: 10 Questions to Ask Your Older Relatives

iStock.com/Photo by FangXiaNuo/Getty Images. By Kimberly E. Hiroto, PhD (Clinical Geropsychologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System,...

Dec 1, 20154 min read

Can a Bystander Make a Difference in Sexual Assault Prevention?

Image source: Flickr user bitsorf: Thank you 1,500,000 times on Flickr, under Creative Commons By Amy Zavadil , PhD (Associate Dean for...

Nov 23, 20153 min read

7 Ways in Which Charlie Sheen Is the Same as Everyone With HIV

iStock.com/Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images. By David Martin, PhD, ABPP (Senior Director, APA Office on AIDS) Charlie Sheen revealed in...

Sep 14, 20155 min read

Addressing Biased Policing Through Science-Based Training

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Lorie Fridell, PhD...

Aug 10, 20151 min read

Ferguson: One Year Later

2015 APA Annual Convention Sunday marked exactly one year since 18-year-old Michael Brown’s fatal shooting by a police officer in...

Mar 17, 20154 min read

5 Ways Black Churches are Engaging in HIV Prevention

By Terrinieka Williams Powell, PhD (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) The CDC notes that...

Mar 3, 20155 min read

Justice for All… Experiences of Undocumented Youth with Law Enforcement

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By J. Manuel Casas, PhD...

Dec 30, 20147 min read

Black (Women’s?) Lives Matter: Microaggression and the Erasure of Violence Against Women of Color

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By LisaLyn Jacobs, JD...

Nov 3, 20146 min read

Crossing Boundaries: How Intergroup Contact Can Reduce Racial Anxiety and Improve Race Relations

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Linda R. Tropp, PhD...

Jul 31, 20134 min read

Is It You or Is It Racist? The Insidious Impact of Microaggressions on Mental Health

By Debra Roberts, PhD (Howard University) and Sherry Molock, PhD (George Washington University) Several years ago, I was at a national...

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