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Monitor on Psychology
Volume 33, No. 6 June 2002
 
Table of contents

Cover stories

The Mind-Body Connection

Convention highlights for APA's divisions and affiliated groups

Public Policy Update:
Federal special education program now under review

Can psychology help a church in crisis?

Where are recent psychology grads getting jobs?

Special Section:
The growing partnership between psychologists and police





Public Policy Update

Federal special education program now under review
APA is working to protect several provisions that are important to psychology.



Science Watch

Figure this: deciding what's figure, what's ground
New research shows that what falls below the horizon line in ambiguous displays is most often seen as 'the figure.'



Job Outlook

Where are recent grads getting jobs?
Data show that higher education and human service jobs are still the leading career paths- and that networking is key in landing a job.

Good news for bachelor's grads
Psychology training opens doors for recent graduates.

Words to work by: Appleby's maxims

What employers want
Here are the top 10 skills that employers look for in psychology majors.

More students blend business and psychology
The master's in I/O psychology enjoys steady growth, thanks to its reputation as a practical, applicable degree.



Psychologists and law enforcement

A psychological force behind the force
Five psychologists show how mental health professionals and police departments can successfully partner.

Solving crimes

Revitalizing Boston's police force

Research into practice

Helping mentally ill offenders

On call, 24-7

Police psychology resources

Psychology and policing: a dynamic partnership

Improving the tools to fight terrorism
Social scientists met with police, FBI and other government officials to discuss how their research can help law enforcement counter future terrorist actions.



Additional stories

Can psychology help a church in crisis?
A small group of psychologists says yes, asserting that psychology's science and practice can be part of the solution.

Debating the doctorate's future: education or vocational training?
The doctorate's market sensitivity continues to be a source of tension in graduate education.

Career rotations
Behavioral scientists are energizing their careers with stints as rotators at the National Science Foundation.

PSYCHOLOGY AROUND THE WORLD
Struggling to build a practice: Russian psychology fights to bring psychotherapy to a needy but wary public.

Convention highlights for APA's divisions and affiliated groups Join APA's divisions and affiliates for APA's 2002 Annual Convention in Chicago, Aug. 22-25.

Candidates answer first two questions
Beginning this month, and continuing through the September issue, the five candidates for APA's 2004 president will answer two questions a month.

Psychology as a 'comprehensive health profession'
APA is working to increase recognition of psychology as a health discipline.



Departments

APF news
Association news
Classified Ads
Division spotlight
In the public interest
Judicial notebook
Letters
On the record
People
President's column
Running commentary
Science directions
Staff

In brief

APA antiviolence campaign ads air more than 168,000 times nationwide

ACT National Leadership Training Program fall workshop

Media coverage of New Mexico's prescription privileges law misses the real story


Search for APA's new CEO continues

Research points to a better way to teach math

Advocacy for mental health parity continues on Capitol Hill

Different brain pathways handle visualization and recognition of objects

Squirrels recognize degree of kinship by scent, psychologist finds

Sign up for international conference on family violence

Joint custody might be best option for children of divorce, study finds

Employees' longer working hours linked to family conflict, stress-related health problems

APA tells the Senate why we need more geropsychologists

Emotion and cognition work together in the brain

Study finds people need to be right--if not rational

Patient-consent procedure for videotaping found to be inadequate

Special issue examines behavioral medicine and clinical health psychology

Participate in National Depression Screening Day

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