APA Monitor October 1999
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IN THIS ISSUE

  • Council Approves Testing Standards: Other action includes endorsing standards for the teaching of high school psychology and approving a dispute mechanism for APA's divisions

  • America Has Confused Priorities: Kicking off APA's Annual Convention with a rousing speech, Jesse Jackson said America needs to refocus its attentions to the nation's real problems, such as health care

  • Surgeon General Seeks More Balance: U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher urged psychologists to prompt healthy behaviors as part of a more balanced approach to health care in America




  • APA Annual Convention 1999: Boston
    J. Douglas McDonald, PhD


    E.O. Wilson speaks at APA Convention
    E.O. Wilson speaks in Boston

    Convention Features

  • Ex-patients complain that APA members lack interest in schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders

  • Psychology can boost the corporate bottom line

  • Mom's stress may affect pregnancy, early child development

  • Bullying widespread in middle school, say three studies

  • Media reports about school killings distort reality

  • Schools unready for technology boom

  • To land the top jobs, tap practical training, say experts

  • Exposure to aggression may have lasting effects

  • Court's sexual harassment ruling puts schools on notice

  • Honoring the founders of 'psychology's attic'

  • Looking for the roots of 'false memories'

  • APA supports lawsuits to hold managed care accountable

  • Townhall meeting focuses on gaining prescription privileges for psychologists

  • APA has high hopes for illness classification

  • Congratulations members: A list of those honored at APA's 1999 Convention



    APA Annual Convention 1999: Boston
    APA Pres. Richard Suinn greets Keynote Speaker Rev. Jesse Jackson
  • News from APA's Annual Convention

  • E.O. Wilson sees psychology at a crossroads

  • Congratulations to the 'Dirty Dozen'

  • Change of seasons, changes in mood

  • Breast-cancer intervention group aids physical healing, research finds

  • Health care for women and girls remains unequal to that of men, says SAMHSA administrator

  • Men and women handle negative situations differently, study suggests

  • APA honors genetic testing researcher

  • Day-care study says it's the quality that counts


    Richard Suinn at APA Annual Convention 1999
    APA Pres. Richard Suinn

  • Ultra-thin magazine models found to have little negative effect on adolescent girls

  • Post-retirement bliss is different for men and women, say researchers

  • Frequent testing means better grades, studies find

  • New award honors outstanding ideas in psychology

  • Some angry drivers think they're not, study finds

  • Adolescent attitudes not influenced by friends, says study

  • Psi Chi commemorates its 70th anniversary in Boston


    'Many Voices Into One'

  • Convention speakers urge academic psychology to mobilize in support of ethnic diversity

  • Cultural insensitivity leads to unfair penalties for ethnic minorities

  • Gifts that minorities bring: a sampler