- Girls wound each other with invisible weapons, study suggests
- Aggressive and assertive mothers may raise children with similar characteristics
- People may form impressions of us by the way we describe others
- Airplane noise pollution may cause poor mental and physical health in children
- Schools' obsession with performance measures spurs cheating
- Exploring Alternative Medicine
- While the medical community's attitude toward alternative medicine is changing slowly, many patients who use nontraditional treatments enthusiastically endorse them
- Advice for working with cancer patients
- Networking program links early-career psychologists with mentors
- Special Section on Cross-disciplinary
- Research
- Researchers have teamed up with cardiologists to study how stress affects the heart
- Report calls for more interdisciplinary research
- Federal agencies encourage more cross-disciplinary work
- Research
- Medication Recommendations
- State boards consider whether psychologists can legally give medication recommendations
- Psychiatrists step up attack on psychologists
- Hypnosis allies are urging insurers to raise coverage
- APA guide helps psychological evaluations in child-abuse cases
- Girl Power
- With APA coaching, an acclaimed production company will document strengths that allow girls to thrive
- Massive data set on adolescents is available to research psychologists
- Veterans may help us see how we process trauma
- APA's Committee on Urban Initiatives provides a model for reaching out to partners beyond psychology
In this issue
OLDER VETS JUST NOW FEELING PAIN OF WAR
For elderly military veterans, retirement or bereavement may spark symptoms of war-related post-traumatic stress disorder.
MELDING EXPERTISE, FURTHERING RESEARCH
More psychologists are conducting research with scientists in other domains, yielding many great discoveries.
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Public databases on the Internet allow different disciplines to share each other's wealth
SQUEEZED BY MANAGED CARE Responses to managed care can present their own dilemmas for psychologists. Here are some examples.
AIRLINE SAFETY Industrial/organizational psychologists at Boeing fuel the human side of airplane safety
- Association news
- Calendar
- Division spotlight
- In the public interest
- Judicial notebook
- Letters
- On the record
- People
- President's column
- Professional point
- Publications and Communications
- Running Commentary
- Science directions
- Science speaks
- Speaking of education
- Web site of the month
- Westinghouse Awards
- A psychology experiment on language wins a high school student a top Westinghouse prize
- The notion of a lifelong career is now a thing of the past
- Psychology programs prompt students to find innovative careers
- Tips for incorporating culture in your class
- Clinical psychology directors focus on supply and demand