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Table of Contents
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Cover story:
A new American dream?
Has the economic crisis led the nation to embrace a more sustainable, socially interdependent lifestyle? Or will Americans' recent shift to thrift be short-lived?
In this month's issue:
A new day for practice
At a historic summit, psychology practitioners took a first step in defining how they must change to survive in a fast-changing world.
Strong families, safe children
Psychologists' expertise is guiding federal efforts to prevent child maltreatment at the community level.
Unfair access
APA works to eliminate disparities as the nation looks to reform its health-care system.
A successful program dies
A federal funding cut ends APA's neuroscience fellowship program.
35 years on Capitol Hill
APA's Congressional Fellowship Program has placed 107 psychologists in congressional offices and other policymaking posts throughout Washington.
Style with substance
APA releases a new edition of its classic resource.
Top names, top minds
Toronto is the stage for this year's APA convention, Aug. 6–9, offering programming for psychologists of all stripes.
Candidates' answers
The five candidates for APA's 2010–11 president answer two more questions.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
On campus, less pain equal real gains
Thanks to APA advocacy, the federal government is investing in college and university counseling centers.
TIME CAPSULE
Philately and psychology
Only one PhD psychologist has ever been honored with a U.S. stamp. You'll never guess who.
QUESTIONNAIRE
The good-enough brain
Gary Marcus explains how evolution equipped us with a mind that gets the job done, but isn't pretty.
SCIENCE WATCH
What's fun for a wasp?
A tendency to play may have shaped the evolution of animals as unlikely as insects and as brainy as apes.
PRACTICE PROFILE
More than a media sexpert
Judith Kuriansky became famous for openness about sex, but that's just part of her story.
American Psychological Foundation news
DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's Column
• From the CEO
• On the Record
• In Brief
• On Your Behalf
• Judicial Notebook
• Random Sample
• Perspective on Practice
• Speaking of Education
• APA News
• Innovative Practitioner
• Division Spotlight
• Personalities
• Staff
UPFRONT
The recession is stressing men more than women
Behavioral research can help curb the spread of swine flu—but is anyone listening?
The lesser-known health costs of incarceration
The drive for prescriptive authority goes international
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