SCIENCE WATCH:
Marine mammals master math
Study makes waves by showing for the first time that dolphins understand the concept of numerosity.

Providing for veterans
Several APA directorates are coordinating efforts to advocate for federal funding for veteran's mental health services, training and research.

Too few in quantitative psychology
The subdiscipline sees shrinking numbers, but growing opportunities.

Plastic surgery: Beauty or beast?
Cosmetic surgery is booming, but what's the mental cost of changing your appearance? Psychologists look to fill in the research gaps.

Helping children cope with disaster
APF funding is helping the Population and Community Development Association of Thailand use a mountain resort camp to help Thai children recover from the tsunami's lingering effects.

Closer connections
Undergraduate programs are seeking to build closer-knit communities for students to prevent burnout, dropouts and anxiety. Here's how.

A showcase for the mind-body connection
The APA Practice Directorate's Public Education Campaign is furthering knowledge of the mind-body health interplay by providing psychologists with resources to inform consumers.

Caring for Medicaid
APA Practice Organization advocacy efforts help reduce Medicaid cuts.

Psychological science meets library science
Librarians are lending APA their expertise on research trends, information-seekers and electronic database navigation through the new Library Advisory Council.

PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
One drink too many
NIAAA scientists revise guidelines clinicians can use to assess alcohol problems.

ETHICS ROUNDS:
On being an ethical psychologist: A more-than-academic example
Mindful of the values that inform his professional work, a teaching psychologist uses a potential conflict of interest to bring ethics into his classroom.

New officers for APA divisions and state associations

Candidates state their views

Bolstering child psychology research
Meet this year's recipients of the APF Koppitz Fellowships, which support promising graduate student research in child psychology.

DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• From the CEO
• In the public interest
• Science directions
• Judicial notebook
• Association news
• Division spotlight
• American Psychological Foundation
• People

IN BRIEF
• Impulsiveness, sensation-seeking characterize the caffeine-dependent
• Hill briefing publicizes need to improve mental health services for older adults
• Suicide prevention efforts needed, American Indian psychologist tells policy-makers
• APA and Clark University launch annual high school psychology workshop
• Study indicates mental illness toll on youth, delays in treatment
• Older gorillas' minds show signs of slowing
• APA task force advises psychologists in national security to heed Ethics Code
• Briefing promotes incorporating eating disorders into obesity legislation
• Briefing emphasizes women's role in science
• Psychologist testifies to Congress on meth treatment
• Academic reputations among peers predict academic success
• APA, ISEF recognize outstanding high school student research