The Education Directorate in The Monitor - 2003 to 2007
Education in The Monitor - 2008
NOVEMBER
A year of personal guidance
Through the Catalyst program, young scholars are teamed with experts in their fields.
EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE '08
Exploring the world
Expose your students to different cultures through service learning trips and foreign study programs.
55 Bringing a new message to Congress
This year's visits to Capitol Hill focused on the mental health needs of college students.
Parity at last!
After years of APA advocacy, Congress passed a law that requires mental health services to be covered at the same level as medical services.
EARLY CAREER PSYCHOLOGY
Early career concerns
Debt and family responsibilities top the list, finds an APA survey.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
Public interest issues take center stage
Members advance critical legislative issues on Capitol Hill.
OCTOBER
In this month's issue: Convention: A special report
The debate continues
At APA's Annual Convention, members continue to discuss psychologists' roles in interrogations.
New psychologists voice their needs
At a town hall meeting, APA leaders welcomed suggestions on the ways the association can better support early career psychologists.
Setting priorities
Workforce issues and suicide prevention highlight education advocacy breakfast.
Bring back old-fashioned play
Psychologists urged to help parents roll back the commercialization of childhood.
How psychology helps you every day
Eminent psychologist Robert J. Sternberg discusses how he put his research into action — and how you can, too.
SEPTEMBER
Charting the future of undergraduate psychology
Educators at the Puget Sound Conference consider steps to introduce the discipline to a new—and much different—generation of students.
Victory for Medicare recipients
Advocacy efforts help Congress pass Medicare legislation that will improve access to mental health care.
Better studying through chemistry?
Seeking a cognitive boost, students are increasingly abusing stimulants. And the problem is likely to get worse.
Fresh perspectives for Psychological Bulletin
Incoming editor Stephen Hinshaw will encourage early career psychologists to write review papers.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
Policy-makers focus on the needs of wounded warriors
Psychologists share innovative efforts to address the mental health needs of soldiers, veterans and their families.
JULY/AUGUST
Just for grad students: gradPSYCH extra
• Get real
Feel like an imposter? You're not alone.
• Make the most of your post
Seasoned presenters share how to make your poster stand out from the crowd.
• Online research done right
Librarians and professors share the inside scoop on PsycINFO and other Internet resources.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
Another win for service members and their families
An APA-supported center earns permanent status within the Department of Defense.
JUNE
Innovate to educate
APA honors two training programs for their ingenuity in preparing tomorrow's psychologists.
EARLY-CAREER PSYCHOLOGY
For kids' sake
Wendy Sun helps Los Angeles parents develop healthy attachments with their children.
On Your Behalf
A wrap-up of APA's latest advocacy
APA's ANNUAL CONVENTION
Highlights of APA division programming
Innovative thinkers to deliver plenaries
Tops in their field: APA award winners
MAY
ON THE COVER
APA's convention, Aug. 14-17
Boston is the backdrop for APA's 2008 convention, Aug 14–17. Meet colleagues, enjoy the city and learn.
Time to expand your lesson plan:
APA's popular G. Stanley Hall Lecture Series is back in Boston for its 29th year.
Are our students learning?
Psychologists lead the charge to broadly define the effectiveness of college education.
Internship shortfall continues for graduate students
More psychology doctoral students get internships, but many are still left out
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
Taking it to the hill
Psychologists share their expertise on trauma, violence and abuse with federal policy-makers.
APRIL
EARLY-CAREER PSYCHOLOGY
Giving each other a lift
Early-career psychologists are developing mutually satisfying mentoring relationships. Here's why—and how.
The lingering storm
Hurricane Katrina's victims are still feeling its psychological sting.
APA honors Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award winners
These businesses promote work-life balance, personal growth and healthy living among their employees.
Recruiting and retaining great faculty
Experts share tips on attracting the best people for the job.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
President's budget is grim for psychology
The administration seeks to cut many psychology-friendly programs.
MARCH
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
Making disability issues a priority
After a lifetime of serving people with mental illnesses, writing helps this psychologist and Alzheimer's patient make sense of his own mind.
Making your practice click
How psychologists can establish a presence online.
Psychology 101, on demand
In what could be the wave of the future, Webcasting tools give students more control over their learning.
Building better psych departments
These benchmarks help undergraduate psychology programs improve their program
assessments.
Putting the benchmarks to use
Since bringing in reviewer Maureen McCarthy, PhD, quality benchmarks helped revamp the University of Tennessee at Martin's psychology program.
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Save the date: Accreditation Assembly set for May
APA's Commission on Accreditation (CoA) is holding the Accreditation Assembly,
May 30–31 in Minneapolis.
FEBRUARY
Moving up in academe
Psychologists grapple with the challenges of assuming new roles at their
institutions.
Junior faculty woes
Early-career faculty on the tenure track are concerned— even confused—by
their institutions' policies.
Art imitating life
An innovative program at the University of Texas uses theater to fight relationship
violence.
JANUARY
Psychology's front lines
The contributions community colleges make to psychology are often overlooked but vital.
Meet your intellectual needs
Psychology's regional meetings offer new insights.
Psychology + fun = active learning
Interactive experiments on APA's Online Psychology Laboratory bring psychological science to life.
Making time for family time
Advice from early-career psychologists on how they juggle family and career.
'Not much has changed'
One of the Little Rock Nine, psychologist Terrence Roberts shares his thoughts on the state of racial equality in psychology and the country.
