Team science
At a recent conference, researchers gathered to discuss how to encourage and evaluate transdisciplinary
teams.
Phantom pain and the brain
An actual touch, or an imaginary one? It’s all the same to (some parts of)
your brain.
Public health, parity and prescriptive authority
In 2006, psychologists advocated in state legislatures for consumers’ rights and
professional integrity.
Beyond deinstitutionalization: reintegration
Psychologist Robert Bernstein describes how the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
works for connected, purposeful community living for people with serious mental
illness.
A new tool for psychotherapists
Five psychoanalytic associations collaborate to publish a new diagnostic manual.
New president looks ahead
APA’s new president focuses on her initiatives and the 2007 convention in San Francisco.
Opening up the bottleneck
PsyD programs look to create internships that help underserved clients.
Supplying therapy where it’s needed most
A Philadelphia-based program matches psychology interns and students with primary-care
physicians.
Make connections
Psychology’s regional meetings will offer top-notch programming in 2007.
PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
The psychological needs of military personnel and families
The Defense Graduate Psychology Education program trains psychologists to help troops and
their families.
Method man
New journal editor Scott Maxwell wants methodological advances to be accessible to all psychologists.
ETHICS ROUNDS:
Posting on the Internet: An opportunity for self (and other) reflection
The Internet offers unique opportunities to present ourselves and our views. The breadth of exposure counsels thoughtfulness for the potential impact of disclosures on our professional work.
Pioneers of integrated health care
Winners of the 2007 APF Cummings PSYCHE Prize work to integrate psychologists into primary care.
The brain in control
The winner of the $25,000 McGuigan Young Investigator Prize explores the neural mechanisms of cognitive control.
DEPARTMENTS
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IN BRIEF
• Kazdin will be 2008 APA president
• Good returns for psychologists
• Early-career survey to gauge needs of newer APA members
• People with cheerleader-partners report high relationship satisfaction
• National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect set for April
• Associations concur on mental disability and death penalty policy
• Psychology helps stop 5 percent Medicare payment cut: Advocacy work to reverse remaining cut is focus for 2007
