A trailblazer retires
Henry Tomes, the first full-time executive director of APA's Public Interest Directorate, steps down after four decades of advancing public health and minority psychology.

Responding to Katrina
• Psychological support in Katrina's wake
• Katrina destroys former LPA president's home, practice
• Responders must consider victims' culture, experts say
• Psychologists reach out to displaced colleagues
• Katrina spurs disaster research
• Psychology groups advise U.S. Senate on ways to help hurricane victims
• Students' new beginnings after the storm

Bringing psychology to the world
APA's U.N. representatives teach others the relevance of behavioral science.

Psychology in the public eye
Across the country, psychologists are using novel ways to highlight psychology's everyday relevance to people's lives.

Introducing the training grid
Resource offers one-stop shopping for interventions targeting serious mental illness.

Psychologists back increased parity, prescriptive authority and professional access
Patients benefit as states enact legislation broadening mental health coverage and increasing psychologists' professional authority.

EDUCATION LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
• Psychology education leaders meet
• Diversity of thought
• Ensuring psychology's place in the K–12 classroom
• Cultural competence: An ethical must in teaching and research
• ELC press experts offered tips on communicating with the media
• Educators honor a teaching legend
• Stumping for psychology education funding
• ELC awards honor education advocates

Putting the 'play' back into performing
Psychologist Jon Skidmore helps young musicians overcome anxiety and enjoy themselves on stage.

INCOMING JOURNAL EDITORS
• Martin takes on JEP:Learning, Memory and Cognition
• Roberts aims to keep PPRP a must-read
• Penrod assumes leadership of Psychology, Public Policy and Law

PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
Federal spotlight on children and youth
Guided by psychologists' advocacy, Congress supports new legislation aimed at improving children's welfare.

ETHICS ROUNDS:
Letter from a reader regarding a minor client and confidentiality
As psychologists engage in the process of synthesizing clinical and legal perspectives, both psychologists and their clients may benefit most when psychologists begin from their strengths: Their background, training and expertise as ­clinicians.

APA election guidelines

Can teaching troubled teens social problem-solving keep them out of trouble?
With APF funding, Elena Grigorenko and colleagues are testing skills training meant to keep violent youth from re-offending.

The inner life of the gifted child
This year's APF Rosen grant winners will explore gifted children's motivation, learning and mental health.

DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• From the CEO
• Science directions
• In the public interest
• Judicial notebook
• Association news
• Division spotlight
• A closer look
• American Psychological Foundation
• People

IN BRIEF
• Taking work home can depress mood, energy
• Workers' new-job excitement often lasts less than a year
• Men receive more credit than women for joint work on stereotypically male tasks
• APA supports World Mental Health Day
• Surgeon General calls for improved disability services
• Become a positive psychology fellow
• People rate their self-esteem high across cultures
• APA task force addresses socioeconomic inequalities
• APA offers free journal access to world's poorest countries
• SAMSHA awards 22 federal grants to boost college mental health services