Why We Need to Act Now to Address the Harmful Effects of Unemployment on Black Millennial Men
By Abigail Luke (Intern, APA Public Interest Government Relations Office) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment...
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donjacques
Aug 8, 20183 min read
Congress Is Attempting to Set Disability Rights Back Decades, Why Psychologists Must Speak Out
By Abigail Luke (Intern, APA Public Interest Government Relations Office) The civil rights of Americans with disabilities, a formerly...
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donjacques
May 4, 20185 min read
A Dream Deferred: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report
By Lauren Walker (Graduate Intern, APA Office on Socioeconomic Status) March 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission...
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donjacques
Dec 20, 20174 min read
Give the Gift of Kindness to Your Elders this Holiday Season
By Sheri R. Levy, PhD, MaryBeth Apriceno, Ashley Lytle, PhD , and Jamie L. Macdonald The holiday season has a way of encouraging acts of...
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donjacques
Dec 1, 20177 min read
What Does Our Past Tell Us About Our Future? The Essential Role of Psychologists in Fighting HIV
(L-R) Dr. Rich Wolitski (HHS/OHAIDP); Dr. Fayth Parks (Georgia Southern University) APA Ad Hoc Committee on Psychology & AIDS (COPA)...
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donjacques
Nov 22, 20175 min read
How to Listen When Someone You Know Discloses Sexual Harassment or Assault
This post is based on a longer article by Dr. Jennifer J. Freyd (Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon) Every day now in the...
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donjacques
Oct 1, 20164 min read
Are You Guilty of Positive Ageism?
By Sharron Hinchliff, PhD (Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield UK) Every year, on October 1st, we celebrate the International Day...
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donjacques
Aug 29, 20165 min read
We Need to Talk About How Race-Related Trauma Hurts Black and Brown Youth in Schools
By Dawn Henderson, PhD (Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University) and Alexis Lunford (Research Assistant) Witnessing or...
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donjacques
Jul 14, 20165 min read
Racial Trauma is Real: The Impact of Police Shootings on African Americans
By Erlanger A. Turner, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Houston-Downtown) & Jasmine Richardson Note: An...
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donjacques
Jul 12, 20164 min read
Why Did the FDA Prevent Gay and Bisexual Men from Donating Blood in the Aftermath of Orlando?
By Leo Rennie (Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer, APA Public Interest Government Relations Office) Understanding the...
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donjacques
Jul 1, 20164 min read
Why HIV Providers Should Care About the Orlando Shooting
By David J. Martin, PhD, ABPP (Senior Director, APA Office on AIDS) In the aftermath of the mass shooting of LGBT people in an Orlando...
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donjacques
Jun 29, 20166 min read
100+ Resources for the Aftermath of the Orlando Mass Shooting Tragedy
By Skyler Jackson, MS (Doctoral Student in Counseling Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park) On June 12, 2016 rapid gunfire...
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donjacques
Jun 27, 20163 min read
Firearm Violence Prevention is a Human Rights Issue
APA President) and Cynthia D. Belar, PhD (APA Interim CEO) June 28 is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched lesbian and...
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donjacques
Apr 29, 20166 min read
Islamophobia in the U.S.: A Threat to Justice Everywhere
By Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia, PhD (Montclair State University) and Saba Rasheed Ali, PhD (University of Iowa) A Muslim mom, Melissa Chance...
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donjacques
Mar 25, 20164 min read
Ageism Alert – Get the Facts on Aging
Most people hope to live long lives, yet American culture is filled with negative images of getting older. Older adulthood is thought of...
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donjacques
Mar 11, 20163 min read
What Do We Need to Know About the Health of Older LGBT Adults? NIH Greenlights New Research
By Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD (Director for Research and Evaluation at ACRIA, Center on HIV and Aging ) When we talk about fully including...
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donjacques
Jan 22, 20162 min read
Penalizing the Poor and Homeless: Psychology’s Contribution
Image source: Flickr user ccozzaglia [Astrid Idlewild] on Flickr, under Creative Commons By Maha Khalid (Program Coordinator, Office on...
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donjacques
Jan 20, 20162 min read
Are the Mentally Ill Being Unfairly Targeted by the FBI’s Gun List? The Mysterious Link Between Auti
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice...
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donjacques
Dec 8, 20153 min read
New KFF/CNN Survey on Race, Covering Transgender Care Is Good Economics for Insurance Companies, Mak
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health, and social justice...
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donjacques
Nov 20, 20154 min read
Tipping Point or State of Emergency? Real Talk About Transgender Women of Color
Zella Ziona, transgender woman murdered in Gaithersburg, MD, October 15, 2015. By Sand C. Chang, PhD (Gender Specialist, Multi-Specialty...
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