APA Congressional Briefings

• Never Too Late to Heal: Positive Aging and the Aftermath of Trauma (6/04)
  
  
• Psychological Science and Abu Ghraib (6/04)
  
  
• Digital Television: Sharpening the Focus on Children , a briefing co-sponsored by APA, Children Now and the American Academy of Pediatrics (6/04)
  
  
• Linking Data to Save Lives: How the National Violent Death Reporting System Is Helping to Prevent Suicide (4/04)
  
  
• Detecting Deception: Research to Secure the Homeland (3/04)
  
  
• Taking Control of Our Health - Applying Research on the Self-Management of Chronic Illness (3/04)
  
  
• Lost in Translation: Public Health Implications of Sexual Health Research (3/04)
  
  
• Psychological Science in Support of the Soldier (9/03)
  
  
• Providing Lifespan Respite Care: Vital Support for Family Caregivers  (7/03)
  
  
• Senior Depression: Life-Saving Mental Health Treatments for Older Americans (7/03)
  
  
• The Head Start Advantage, a briefing co-sponsored by APA and the Society for Research in Child Development and the National Association for the Education of Young Children. (6/03)
  
  
• How Traumatic Events Worldwide are Affecting Adolescents' Decisions about Postsecondary Education, a briefing co-sponsored by APA and the College Board. (6/03)
  
  
• Reactions to Terrorism: Attitudes and Anxieties (6/02)



• Protecting Our Nation's Children: What We Know about Child Abuse Prevention (6/02)
  
  
• Human Response to Disaster (4/02)
  
  
• Promoting Quality Care Near the End of Life: What Policy Makers Need to Know an APA-SPSSI sponsored briefing (7/01)
  
  
• Early Child Care and Education (5/01)
  
  
• Mechanics of Election Reform (3/01)
  
  
• "Educational Testing: Policy Considerations for the 107th Congress" statement of Eva Baker, Ph.D. at an APA-sponsored briefing (3/01)
  
  
• "Promoting the Mental Health of our Nation's Youth through School-Based Programs" statement of Mark Weist, Ph.D. at a briefing sponsored by the Friends of School Health (6/01)
  
  
• Minority Health Disparities (6/00)
  
  
• Healthy Aging: What Does the Research Tell Us? (5/00)
  
  
• Transitions to School: What Helps Children Succeed (6/99)
  
  
• Breaking the Wall of Silence: Women, HIV/AIDS, and the Prison System (2/99)
  
  
• The Science of Prevention (4/98)
  
  
• Photo Gallery for "Substance Abuse Prevention: Programs that Work"(12/98)
  
  
• Dying to be thin: The prevention of eating disorders and the role of Federal policy (11/97)
  
  
• Hate Crimes: Causes, Consequences, and Current Policy. What Does the Social Science Research Tell US? (11/97)
  

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