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Volume 34, No. 2 February 2003

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  Table of contents
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Cover stories

Intelligence

Getting ready for HIPAA

ADHD: Also a women's issue?

How to close a practice

Psychology's first prescribers

A changing student body





In this month's issue:



Public Policy Update:
New Congress and new homeland security department take shape
Shifts in political power and an emphasis on homeland security will also affect psychology.

Advocacy at your fingertips
APAPractice.org features a new advocacy tool.

Professional will: a responsible thing to do

Unraveling new media's effects on children
Researchers are beginning to discover how electronic technologies influence child development.

Why we overestimate our competence
Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses.

A tale of two careers: psychologist to best-selling novelist
At APA's Annual Convention, Jonathan Kellerman will share how psychology helped him become a world-renowned author.

Novel approaches to understanding visual attention
APF early career prize recognizes promising research on the human mind.



Graduate students:
A changing student body
Today's psychology graduate students are more diverse and do more juggling.

Beating the odds

Back to school

Married with children

Coming to America

Traditional or nontraditional?



Departments

APF news
Association news
Classified Ads
Division spotlight
Judicial notebook
Letters
People
President's column
Public Policy Office update
Running commentary
Science directions
Staff

In brief

Students: Get ready for your new magazine

Conference focused on competencies in professional psychology

Book will document historic community research conference

American Psychologist covers go on display

Federal institute will emphasize science in education research

Fort Bragg seeks to remedy stigma of seeking counseling

Giving to others linked to longer life, study finds

Web site puts out information on reproductive health

Psychologists recognized for 'meritorious research service'

University of Missouri conference marks 50 years of accreditation

Parity extension passed by Congress

Sleep apnea linked to brain damage

 

 


 
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