Building a healthier country
Psychologists joined other experts to discuss ways to change our environment to reduce obesity.

Designing psychologists
Psychologists, designers and sisters Susan Painter and Constance Forrest draw on their unique backgroundto create user-friendly living and working spaces.

Behavioral health-a primary concern
APA Practice Directorate-nominated HHS fellow Garret Evans is working to promote psychology's role in public health care.

Filling behavioral health-service gaps
APA member testifies to the Institute of Medicine on ways to improve behavioral health access and quality.

Army uncovers mental health-service gap
Combat mental health care leaves troops in need, finds a recent Army survey. The Army has made some adjustments based on the findings.

VA conference focuses on advocacy for veterans

Stopping young fire-starters
Firefighters, psychologists and other community professionals work together to extinguish juvenile fire-setting.

A new society for OHP
After years of planning, researchers in psychology and occupational safety and health will launch a new society for the field.

PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
Policy in the making
Through APA's Congressional Fellowship Program, five psychologists are learning the ins and outs of Capitol Hill.

Diversifying I/O
APA's I/O division is working to attract more ethnic-minority young scientists.

Leadership by example
Psychologist Lily Kelly-Radford is proof positive that a high-powered career and family life can co-exist.

Technology still finding its place in training
From videotapes to computer-simulated patients, new and old technologies are helping graduate psychology programs train the next generation of psychologists.

Beyond our borders
A meeting of North American psychologists highlights international changes in professional psychology.

Strengthen your brain by resting it
Psychologists at the Western Psychological Association convention showed how good sleep may improve performance.

Accentuating the positive
A new classification of positive personality traits paves the way for further research and implementation of the subfield.

Joining together for children's interests
An APA- and American Bar Association-sponsored conference brought together judges, attorneys, psychologists and others to discuss children in the legal system.

Candidates state their positions

ETHICS ROUNDS:
APA's new Ethics Code, its values and excellence in psychological services