AGING
Elder Abuse and Neglect: In Search of Solutions
A brochure written for consumers, but useful to anyone who wants to know more about elder abuse.
Includes information about types of abuse and neglect, what causes it, and where to go for help.
Medicare Local Medical Review Policies Tool Kit (LMRP)
Provides guidance to practicing psychologists interested in improve Medicare coverage for psychological services for older adults and other Medicare beneficiaries. 
Older Adults' Health And Age-Related Changes: Reality Versus Myth
Based on What Practitioners Should Know About Working With Older Adults, this pamphlet is intended for consumers.
PDF Format
What Practitioners Should Know About Working
With Older Adults
This publication is designed to give psychologists and other health care providers important information to help guide their work with older adults.
PDF Format
The APA Working Group on Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Decisions Report
Mental health issues involved in physician-assisted suicide and other
end-of-life decisions.
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CAREERS
Directory
of Selected Scholarship, Fellowship, and Other Financial Aid Opportunities for Women and Ethnic
Minorities in Psychology and Related Fields
Psychology
Education and Careers: Guidebook for High School Students of Color
This pamphlet provides advice to high school students who might be interested in pursuing education
and careers in psychology.
Psychology
Education and Careers: Guidebook for College Students of Color
This pamphlet provides advice to college students of color interested in pursuing education and
career in psychology.
Psychology
Education and Careers: Guidebook for College Students of Color Applying to Graduate and Professional
Programs
Describes the process for applying to graduate/professional education in psychology and provides
great tips!
Psychology
Education and Careers: Resources for Psychology Training Programs Recruiting Students of Color
Provides a quick guide to action in support of increased student minority recruitment and retention.
Surviving
and Thriving in Academia: A Guide for Women and Ethnic Minorities
Discusses critical incidents and decisions that may confront women and ethnic minorities as they
enter and progress through the academic pipeline. A wonderful resource for early career academics!!
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CHILDREN & YOUTH
Report on the APA Task Force on Advertising and Children
This report dicusses information on research literature in the area of advertising media, and its effects on children.
An Annotated Bibliography on the Implications of Interactive Media for Adolescents
This document compiles information about recently published material that examines the role of interactive media in the lives of adolescents, the impact of interactive media, and uses of interactive media as an intervention or learning tool.
A
New Look at Adolescent Girls Strengths and Stresses Research Agenda
This booklet was excerpted from Beyond Appearance A New Look at Adolescent Girls and provides
research questions focused on the strengths, challenges, and choices within the contexts of girls'
lives.
Developing Adolescents: A Reference for Professionals
This booklet was designed to provide professionals who work with adolescents with basic information about healthy adolescent development. The publication presents research-based information about what is known about the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development of adolescents, and provides information to help professionals relate more effectively to young people.
Raising Children to Resist Violence: What You Can
Do
This public education brochure suggests ways that parents, family members, and others can help
children learn to solve problems and to deal with emotions without using violence.
Protecting
our Children from Abuse and Neglect
A brochure written for parents, teachers, relatives and those who care for children and how to
recognize and prevent child abuse and neglect. Provides information on causes and what happens
to abuse and neglected children. A public education pamphlet.
Psychological
Testing of Language Minority & Culturally Different Children
Information and suggestions for parents to ensure that psychological tests are appropriate with
regard to a child's cultural background and language.
Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse Final Report
This report offers a clear and concrete delineation of the issues that must be faced, the knowledge that must be sought, and the differences that must reconciled for the science and profession of psychology to attend responsibly to the dilemmas posed by adult memories of childhood abuse.
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DISABILITIES
Enhancing Your Interactions with People
with Disabilities
This publication illustrates appropriate ways to reflect the increased participation of people
with disabilities in our society.
The
Americans With Disabilities Act & How It Affects Psychologists Provides an overview of
the ADA, its relevance to psychology and to psychologists working in a variety of settings.
Guidelines for APA Presentations
Designed to aid APA conference speakers make accessible presentations; provides information to
insure presentations are informationally and physically accessible to persons with disabilities.
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EDUCATION
A
Guide for Including Information on Child Abuse & Neglect in the Undergraduate Curriculum
Provides information for professors and lecturers who would like to incorporate information about
child abuse and neglect into their teaching.
A
Guide for Including Information on Child Abuse & Neglect in Graduate & Professional Education
& Training
Provides information for professors, clinical supervisors, and other graduate instructors who
would like to incorporate information about child abuse and neglect into their teaching.
Bringing
to Scale Educational Innovation and School Reform:
Partnerships in Urban Education
This report chronicles the conference deliberations on the specific problem of identifying and
making school systems aware of the reform programs that work.
Directory
of Selected Scholarship, Fellowship, and Other Financial Aid Opportunities for Women and Ethnic
Minorities in Psychology and Related Fields
How
to Recruit and Hire Ethnic Minority Faculty
Outlines key considerations and strategies for aggressive recruitment and hiring of ethnic minority
persons into faculty positions.
Just
the Facts About Sexual Orientation & Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educations & School Personnel
This factsheet provides good information that will help guide you through the controversies in
our society about homosexuality.
Toward an Inclusive Psychology: Infusing the Introductory Psychology Textbook with the Diversity Content - PDF 2,123KB
This booklet is for those publishers, authors and teachers of introductory psychology interested in advancing psychology as an inclusive science.
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ETHNIC MINORITIES
Racism
and Psychology. What can psychology tell us about prejudice, discrimination, and racism
This brochure, which is designed for the general public and grounded in psychological research,
seeks to increase the precision of our understanding and language related to prejudice, racial
prejudice, and racism. It also provides resources and guidelines for anti-racist action. An excellent
reading for students.
Annotated
Bibliography of Psychology and Racism
This bibliography is designed as a resource for psychologists and others interested in understanding
and taking action against racism.
Surviving
and Thriving in Academia: A Guide for Women and Ethnic Minorities
Discusses critical incidents and decisions that may confront women and ethnic minorities as they
enter and progress through the academic pipeline. A wonderful resource for early career academics!!
Valuing
Diversity in Faculty: A Guide
This booklet discusses various issues related to the promotion of cultural diversity among faculty
and departments of psychology.
Visions
and Transformation: The Final Report of the APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment and
Retention in Psychology
This report identifies critical components of individual and institutional behaviors that hinder
and promote increased participation of ethnic minorities in psychology.
Psychological
Testing of Language Minority & Culturally Different Children
Information on psychological tests and the importance of ensuring that tests are appropriate to
a child's language and cultural background
Psychological Treatment of Ethnic Minority Populations
This brochure was developed to empower ethnic minority consumers of psychological services and to inform psychological researchers and trainers as well as funders and providers of psychological services.
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HIV / AIDS
The APA Working Group
on Assisted Suicide and End-of-Life Decisions Report
Mental health issues involved in physician-assisted suicide and other
end-of-life decisions.
HIV/AIDS
Resources for Faculty and Teaching
Ethics
and HIV/AIDS: A Mental Health Practitioner's Guide
A book that will assist clinicans in dealing with the incredibly complex clinical dilemmas that
rountinely accompany HIV disease.
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LESBIAN, GAY, &
BISEXUAL
Graduate
Faculty in Psychology Interested in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues
Guidelines
for Psychotherapy with Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Clients
Just
the Facts About Sexual Orientation & Youth: A Primer for Principals, Educations & School Personnel
This factsheet provides good information that will help guide you through the controversies in
our society about homosexuality.
Lesbian
and Gay Parenting -- A Resource for Psychologists
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POLICIES:
Resolutions by APA Council of Representatives
Aging Issues
Children, Youth, and Families
Disability Issues
Ethnic Minority Affairs
HIV/AIDS Issues
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns
Women Issues
Assisted Suicide
Death Penalty In The United States
End-of-Life Issues and Care for Adults
Poverty and Socioeconomic Status
PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
The Americans with Disabilities ACT & How It
Affects Psychologists
APA
Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Linguistic, and Culturally Diverse
Populations
A
Developing Adolescents: A Reference for Professionals
This booklet was designed to provide professionals who work with adolescents with basic information about healthy adolescent development. The publication presents research-based information about what is known about the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development of adolescents, and provides information to help professionals relate more effectively to young people.
Handbook for Increasing Ethnic Minority Participation In State Psychological Associations and APA Divisions
The purpose of this handbook is to encourage the creativity and goodwill that must accompany any
effort to increase ethnic minority representation and participation.
Lesbian
and Gay Parenting -- A Resource for Psychologists
Psychological Treatment of Ethnic Minority Populations
This brochure was developed to empower ethnic minority consumers of psychological services and to inform psychological researchers and trainers as well as funders and providers of psychological services.
Toward an Urban Psychology: Research, Action, and Policy
This report provides an examination of critical urban issues for psychology, summarizes the state of scientific research related to urban issues, and offers an agenda for action in urban psychology. 
Working Group on Investigation of Memories of Childhood Abuse Final Report
This report offers a clear and concrete delineation of the issues that must be faced, the knowledge that must be sought, and the differences that must reconciled for the science and profession of psychology to attend responsibly to the dilemmas posed by adult memories of childhood abuse.
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VIOLENCE
Issues and Dilemmas in Family Violence
This booklet outlines 12 issues and dilemmas that are identified by the APA Presidential Task
Force on Violence and the Family and germane to those who work with family violence.
Love Doesn't Have to Hurt Teens
This brochure on teen dating violence provides information and resources for victims,
aggressors, and friends. It includes discussion of issues particular to disabled youth, same-sex
relationships, and cultural beliefs.
Potential Problems for Psychologists Working with the Area of Interpersonal Violence
This brochure offers practical advice to clinicians working in the area of interpersonal violence.
Raising Children to Resist Violence: What You Can
Do
This public education brochure suggests ways that parents, family members, and others can help
children learn to solve problems and to deal with emotions without using violence.
Training
EMSC Providers in Violence Prevention
This report on a project funded by the federal program, Emergency Medical Services for Children,
provides recommendations for effective training programs in violence prevention for paramedics,
physicians, nurses, trauma surgeons and mental health providers dealing with children and adolescents
in violent situations.
Violence and the Family
This report summarizes the psychological knowledge pertaining to violence and the family, describes
family violence problems that can be prevented or ameliorated through psychological approaches,
and makes recommendations based on their findings.
Violence and Youth PDF Format
Violence at Home
A consumer-oriented brochure focusing on solution to partner violence.
Violence on Television
A short consumer-oriented fact sheet presenting research and real-life studies. It includes suggestions for parents on how to reduce risk and the effects of violence seen on television by children.
Violence Prevention for Families of Young Children PDF Format
This brochure teaches violence prevention techniques to parents and caregivers of young children 0 to 8 years old.
What Makes Kids Care?
A consumer-oriented fact sheet offering parents some techniques and suggestions for teaching their children to become more gentle in their behavior despite their exposure to violence in their environment.
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WOMEN
CWP Two Decades of Change 1973-1993
PDF Format
Directory
of Selected Scholarship, Fellowship, and Other Financial Aid Opportunities for Women and Ethnic
Minorities in Psychology and Related Fields
Searchable Database
Making 'Welfare To Work' Really Work
Provides information on key areas of welfare reform that need to be addressed, sympathetically
interpreted, or amended in the current legislation in order to ensure the long-term goal or self-sufficiency
for women on public assistance.
Proceedings of the October 2000 Summit on Women and Depression PDF Format
Surviving
and Thriving in Academia: A Guide for Women and Ethnic Minorities
Discusses critical incidents and decisions that may confront women and ethnic minorities as they
enter and progress through the academic pipeline. A wonderful resource for early career academics!!
Women
in Academe: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
This publication considers the characteristics, roles and status of academic women psychologist
and documents the continued need for improvement in women's academic standing.
Women in the American Psychological Association
A report looking at the number of women in APA, their distribution across the subfields of psychology,
and their representation in the APA.
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WORK, STRESS, and HEALTH
Proceedings of the October 2000 Summit on Women and Depression
Responses to Workplace Violence Post 9/11: What Can Organizations Do?
Learn what actions employers can undertake to help minimize the psychological impact of terrorist violence.
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Going to Scale: Multisector Models for Dissemination
This report examines the challenges faced by different sectors in bringing innovation to scale, examines successful strategies for overcoming these challenges, and recommends actions for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to facilitate the adoption and dissemination of innovations.
Intimate Partner Abuse and Relationship Violence
A domestic violence curriculum to assist psychology professors who develop courses on relationship abuse or want to add information on the subject to existing courses. 
Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologist
Approved as APA Policy by the APA Council of Representatives, August, 2002.
Final Progress Report of the Valuing Diversity Project
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