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Cover stories
 APA's Annual Convention
From opportunities for practitioners, to the latest trends in education and research, APA's Annual Convention has the programming you're looking for.
New Mexico gets close to prescription privileges
Psychologists' research explains the mental and physical restoration we get from nature--and has important implications for how we should be building our homes, work environments and cities.
Congress taps psychologists' expertise on high-stakes testing
Psychologists and education experts discussed concerns about fairness and accuracy in large-scale educational testing at a congressional briefing.
State Leadership Conference sparks new ideas on promoting psychology's agenda
Read more in this special section on the State Leadership Conference held March 10-13.
Meet the candidates for APA's next presidential election
Meet the candidates for APA's 2003 president.
Science
26 Stimulants boost achievement in ADHD teens
A first-of-its-kind study
indicates that stimulant medication, combined with behavioral interventions, improves academic achievement in adolescents with ADHD.
The ones to watch
Six high school students bring psychology to top science competition.
Waning support for death penalty prompts new theoretical analysis
A shift in opinions about capital punishment is
helping researchers better understand how people's most strongly held attitudes change over time.
Mindreading ability helps
organize thinking
Children's understanding of their own and others' mental states shapes their most basic understanding of the world around them, recent research suggests.
Practice
New Mexico comes up on the inside
With a near-win, the state gets closer to prescription
privileges for psychologists than any state has before.
Special section on
the State Leadership Conference
Read more in this special section on the State Leadership Conference held March 10-13.
Psychology gains
more power on key accrediting body
Psychologists are leaders in the Commission on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, which is becoming more important to a growing
number of human services.
Public Interest
Punishment of innocents: children of parents behind bars
Psychologists are gathering data and developing
programs to bring families closer together and curb
what can become a family cycle of imprisonment.
Education
The high stakes of educational testing
Psychologists and education experts discussed concerns about fairness and accuracy in large-scale educational testing at a congressional briefing.
Academic medicine welcomes psychology
The Association of Medical School Psychologists has joined a council of the Association of American Medical Colleges--
a move that will expand psychologists' role in medical education.
Association
An almost untouched area of health psychology
New book says many patients with irritable bowel syndrome could be helped by psychological treatment, but few psychologists treat the disorder.
Presidential elections
Meet the candidates for APA's 2003 president.
Guidelines on APA presidential elections
Departments
APA online news
APF news
Association news
Book notes
Calendar
Division spotlight
Judicial notebook
Letters
On the record
People
President's column
Professional point
Running Commentary
Time capsule
Web sites of the month
In brief
One-tenth of college students are dependent on the Internet, research finds
APA welcomes 107th Congress with Capitol Hill reception
APA member advocates for community health funding before Senate subcommittee
Rep. Tom Osborne is given award for psychology in management
Social scientists aim to influence election reform
Submissions due soon for positive psychology awards
Latinas lagging behind the educational finish line?
Study shows a significant increase in sexual content
on TV
Do people's reasons for making money affect their well-being?
Cognitive problems after heart bypass linked to long-term decline
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