APA Monitor December 1999
Special Section: A Century of Psychology

A fledgling field comes of age

Psychology continues to redefine itself

Developmental psychology: a maturing field

Controversy follows psychological testing

The evolution of experimental psychology

Behaviorism: the rise and fall of a discipline

Cognitive psychology sees a return to power

Social psychology: once overlooked, now a staple

From "character" to "personality"

Once behind the scenes, now in the fore

A long road to diversity

Clinical psychology: born and raised in controversy

APA: uniting psychologists for more than 100 years

What will the next century bring?

Features

APA Monitor: Past, Present and Future
The publication that began as a black and white newsletter 30 years ago will change next month to a four-color magazine

A Testing Dilemma
Psychologists search for ways to assess the skills of special-needs students, yet preserve a test's validity

A New Field of Psychology
Experts on ethnic conflict drafted a training curriculum that integrates trauma intervention and conflict resolution

Newsline

Federal government will require data sharing, but with several caveats

Volunteers needed for anxiety disorders screening

12-step self-help programs prove successful regardless of participants' religious backgrounds, study suggests

Mental illness among elderly Americans expected to become a great concern

Sign up to participate in National Alcohol Screening Day

AAAS declines to review controversial child-sexual abuse study

Government recommends limiting use of restraints and seclusion

Cognitive-behavioral treatment efficiently combats anxiety, study finds

New Jersey award honors companies for taking stress out of work

APA no longer approves CE sponsorship for Thought Field Therapy

Science

Spotlight On Testing
New testing standards will encourage test users and developers to re-evaluate how they administer and design tests

Are standards meant to be enforced?

Bennett Bertenthal back to school after three years at NSF

Practice

Reaching Out To The Ozarks
Don McGehee combines faith and psychology to help people of the Ozark mountains

APA College is in step as psychology practice evolves

Public Interest

'Abstinence-Only' v. 'Safer-Sex'
Psychologists say the government is paying for sex-ed programs that haven't been proven effective

University of Pennsylvania offers a 10-week training program on ethnopolitical war

Education

Publishing A Dissertation
Faculty and journal editors offer tips on transforming doctoral research into a journal article

Connecting course content with students' lives

Association

Election guidelines set for president-elect

Outstanding mentors motivate a new generation of geropsychologists