The Publications and Communications Board (P&C) and the Office of Publications and Databases (OPD) addressed challenges and opportunities surrounding changes in the scholarly publishing and current economic climates to finish the year meeting its publishing goals for electronic resources, books, videos, and journals.
With the goal of fulfilling APA’s mission to advance psychology to benefit society and improve people’s lives, the Office of Publications and Databases disseminated an array of psychological science resources to communities across the globe. APA’s scholarly products (APA Journals, APA Books, Publication Manual, APA Style CENTRAL, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycTESTS, PsycTHERAPY, PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, PsycCRITIQUES, and the PsycNET platform) produced nearly $92 million in 2016.
APA Journals
APA Journals produces an array of scholarly journals that cover the spectrum of modern psychology. Journals published more than 54,500 pages in 2016 across 90 journals with more than 91 special issues or sections , representing more than 4,700 articles in 484 journal issues.
The P&C Board announced the 13 editorial appointments in 2016, naming the following Editors to six-year terms, beginning as the Editor-elect year (and 2018 as the debut masthead year).
- Behavioral Development Bulletin – Henry Roane, PhD
- Emotion – Paula Pietromonaco, PhD
- Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences – Catherine Salmon, PhD
- Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology – William Stoops, PhD
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology – Angus MacDonald, PhD
- Journal of Comparative Psychology – Dorothy Fragaszy, PhD
- Journal of Counseling Psychology – Dennis Kivlighan, PhD
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied – Daniel Morrow, PhD
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General – Nelson Cowan, PhD
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance – Isabel Gauthier, PhD
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition – Shinobu Kitayama, PhD
- Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain – Mark Schmuckler, PhD
- Rehabilitation Psychology – Dawn Ehde, PhD
The P&C Board opened 12 searches in 2016 for the following journals:
- Clinician’s Research Digest: Adult Populations and Child and Adolescent Populations
- Family, Systems, and Health
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics
- Journal of Threat Assessment and Management
- Professional Psychology: Research and Practice
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
- Psychology and Aging
- Psychology of Violence
- Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
- Training and Education in Professional Psychology
- Traumatology
APA Books
In 2016, APA Books released a host of book products in a variety of formats, including 56 APA Books titles released in Kindle editions and 40 e-titles to Ebrary, EBSCO, and Overdrive – all platforms for hosting e-book content and providing access to academic libraries. The APA Books’ Subsidiary Rights Office negotiated 79 licenses to release book copies in a number languages including Arabic, Complex Chinese, Czech, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish and Turkish.
APA Books released the following 52 scholarly titles during 2016:
- Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy, Third Edition by Pamela A. Hays
- Ethical Choices in Research: Managing Data, Writing Reports and Publishing Results in the Social Sciences by Harris M. Cooper.
- Internationalizing the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum: Practical Lessons Learned at Home and Abroad, edited by Dana Gross, Kenneth Abrams, and Carolyn Zerbe Enns
- Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Groups: Theory, Research, and Practice, edited by Edward C. Chang et al. (Series: Division 45 Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Psychology Series)
- Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy by Pratyusha Tummala-Narra
- The PsycTHERAPY Teaching Guide (American Psychological Association)
- An Introduction to Consulting Psychology: Working With Individuals, Groups, and Organizations by Rodney L. Lowman (Series: Fundamentals of Consulting Psychology)
- Psychoeducational Assessment and Intervention for Ethnic Minority Children: Evidence-Based Approaches edited by Scott Lee Graves, Jr. and Jamila J. Blake (Series: Division 16 Applying Psychology in the Schools)
- Supervision Essentials for the Feminist Psychotherapy Model of Supervision by Laura S. Brown
- The Social Neuroscience of Human-Animal Interaction , edited by Lisa S. Freund, Sandra McCune, Layla Esposito, Nancy R. Gee, and Peggy McCardle
- Confidentiality Limits in Psychotherapy: Ethics Checklists for Mental Health Professionals by Mary Alice Fisher
- Emotion, Aging, and Health by Anthony D. Ong and Corinna E. Loeckenhoff (APA Bronfenbrenner Series on the Ecology of Human Development)
- Supervision Essentials for a Systems Approach to Supervision by Elizabeth L. Holloway (Series: Clinical Supervision Essentials)
- The Cost of Racism for People of Color: Contextualizing Experiences of Discrimination , edited by Alvin N. Alvarez, Christopher T. H. Liang, and Helen A. Neville (Series: Division 45 Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Psychology)
- The Dark Side of Personality: Science and Practice in Social, Personality, and Clinical Psychology , edited by Virgil Zeigler-Hill and David K. Marcus
- Child Maltreatment: A Developmental Psychopathology Approach by Kathryn A. Becker-Blease and Patricia K. Kerig
- Empowered Learning in Secondary Schools: Promoting Positive Youth Development Through a Multitiered System of Supports by Cynthia E. Hazel (Applying Psychology in the Schools Series, Division 16)
- Supervision Essentials for the Critical Events in Psychotherapy Supervision Model by Nicholas Ladany, Myrna L. Friedlander, and Mary Lee Nelson
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies by Amy Wenzel, Keith S. Dobson, and Pamela A. Hays
- Couple Relationships in the Middle and Later Years: Their Nature, Complexity and Role in Health and Illness, edited by Jamila Bookwala
- Supervision Essentials for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy by Cory F. Newman and Danielle A. Kaplan
- Supervision Essentials for Existential-Humanistic Therapy by Orah T. Krug and Kirk J. Schneider
- Trauma-Informed Treatment and Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence by Casey T. Taft, Christopher M. Murphy, and Suzannah K. Creech
- A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health: How to Conduct Legal, Ethical, and Evidence-Based Telepractice by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene M. Maheu
- Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Factors Moderating Language Proficiency edited by Elena Nicoladis and Simona Montenari (Language and the Human Lifespan Series)
- Eliminating Inequities for Women With Disabilities: An Agenda for Health and Wellness, edited by Shari E. Miles-Cohen
- Evidence-Based Psychological Practice With Ethnic Minorities: Culturally Informed Research and Clinical Strategies , edited by Nolan Zane,
Guillermo Bernal, and Frederick T. L. Leong (Division 45, Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Psychology Series) - Interviewing Children: The Science of Conversation in Forensic Contexts by Debra A. Poole
- Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies: Voices of Fire, Acts of Courage , edited by Thelma Bryant-Davis and Lilian Comas-Diaz (Division 35 Psychology of Women Series)
- Affirmative Counseling and Psychological Practice With Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients edited by Anneliese A. Singh and lore m. dickey
- Conducting a Culturally Informed Neuropsychological Evaluation by Darly Fujii
- Graduate Study in Psychology, 2017 Edition. American Psychological Association
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy for Insomnia by Jason C. Ong
- Psychology 101 1/2: The Unspoken Rules for Success in Academia, Second Edition by Robert J. Sternberg
- The Young Eyewitness: How Well Do Children and Adolescents Describe and identify Perpetrators? by Joanna Pozzulo
- Transcendent Mind: Rethinking the Science of Consciousness by Imants Baruss and Julia Mossbridge
- Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You, Third Edition edited
by Robert J. Sternberg - Handbook of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity in Counseling and Psychotherapy , edited by Kurt A. DeBord, Ann R. Fischer, Kathleen J. Bieschke, and Ruperto M. Perez
- Supervision Essentials for the Practice of Competency-Based Supervision by Carol A. Falender and Edward P. Shafranske (Series: Clinical Supervision Essentials)
- Innovative Investigations of Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder edited by Letitia R. Naigles (Series: Language and the Human Lifespan, copublished by APA Books and De Gruyter Mouton)
- Supervision Essentials for Emotion-Focused Therapy by Leslie S. Greenberg and Liliana Ramona Tomescu (Series: Clinical Supervision Essentials)
- Supervision Essentials for Integrative Psychotherapy by John C. Norcross and Leah M. Popple (Series: Clinical Supervision Essentials)
- Trauma, Meaning, and Spirituality: Translating Research Into Clinical Practice by Crystal L. Park, Joseph M. Currier, J. Irene Harris, and Jeanne M. Slattery
- Emotion-Focused Therapy, Revised Edition by Leslie S. Greenberg
- Research Methods in Language Acquisition: Principles, Procedures, and Practices, by Maria Blume and Barbara C. Lust (Series: Language and the Human Lifespan, copublished by APA Books and DeGruyter Mouton)
- Transforming Long-Term Care: Expanded Roles for Mental Health Professionals by Kelly O’Shea Carney and Margaret P. Norris
- What Psychology Majors Could (and Should) Be Doing, Second Edition: A guide to Research Experience, Professional Skills, and Your Options After College by Paul J. Silvia, Peter F. Delaney, and Stuart Marcovitch
- Entrenchment and the Psychology of Language Learning: How We Reorganize and Adapt Linguistic Knowledge by Hans-Joerg Schmid (Series: Language and the Human Lifespan)
- Ethical Practice in Geropsychology by Shane S. Bush, Rebecca S. Allen, and Victor A. Molinari
- Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care: Step-by-Step guidance for Assessment and Intervention, Second Edition by Christopher L. Hunter, Jeffrey L. Goodies, mark S. Oordt, and Anne C. Dobmeyer
- Starting Your Career in Academic Psychology by Robert J. Sternberg
- The Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Model of Supervision by Natasha C. N. Prenn and Diana Fosha
APA LifeTools, APA’s self-help imprint for the general public released 2 new book titles:
- Teaching Life Skills to Children and Teens With ADHD: A Guide for Parents and Counselors by Vincent J. Monastra
- Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children by Roberta Michnik Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. This title received a Bronze Medal in the 2016 Living Now Book Awards for Parenting as well as appeared on the bestsellers list for Amazon and the New York Times.
The APA Reference program is responsible for two principle lines of publications: (a) the APA Dictionary of Psychology® series and (b) the APA Handbooks in Psychology® series of multivolume reference works. APA Books’ Reference Program released the following 3 titles:
- APA Handbook of Clinical Psychology (5-volume set)
- APA Handbook of Community Psychology (2-volume set)
- APA College Dictionary of Psychology, Second Edition (5,500 entries). The APA Dictionary of Psychology, Second Edition (APA Books ®) was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year.
Magination Press, APA’s children book line publishes self-help books for kids and caregivers in three formats: picture books (ages 4-8), middle school readers/chapter books (ages 9-13), or didactic guides/self-help resources (for school-age kids or teens). In 2016, Magination Press released 17 new titles on the topics of grief and death; making mistakes; diversity and identity; teen (boys) relationships, sexuality, and sexual behavior; ADHD; executive function skills (planning and organization); social anxiety; women in science (STEM); teen depression; gender identity, marriage equality, and LGBTQ history; mindfulness; picky eating; bullying; nighttime fears; experienced trauma associated with neglect; mind-body-emotion connection; childhood depression. Titles include:
- Something Very Sad Happened: A Toddler’s Guide to Understanding Death by Bonnie Zucker, PsyD
- Stickley Makes a Mistake! A Frog’s Guide to Trying Again by Brenda S. Miles, PhD
- There’s a Cat in Our Class! A Tale About Getting Along by Jeanie Franz Ransom
- Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21 st Century Teen Boy by Andrew P. Smiler, PhD
- Baxter Turns Down His Buzz: A Story for Little Kids About ADHD by James M. Foley, DEd
- Learning to Plan and Be Organized: Executive Functions Skills for Kids With AD/HD by Kathleen G. Nadeau, PhD
- What to Do When You Feel Too Shy: A Kid’s Guide to Overcoming Social Anxiety by Claire A. B. Freeland, PhD and Jacqueline B. Toner, PhD
- Cinderstella; A Tale of Planets, Not Princes by Brenda S. Miles, PhD and Susan D. Sweet, PhD
- Depression: A Teen’s Guide to Survive and Thrive by Jacqueline B. Toner, PhD and Claire A. B. Freeland, PhD
- Either Way Story of a Gay Kid by Sandra Levins
- King Calm: Mindful Gorilla in the City by Susan D. Sweet, PhD and Brenda S. Miles, PhD
- Princess Penelopea Hates Peas: A Tale of Picky Eating and Avoiding Catastropeas by Susan D. Sweet, PhD and Brenda S. Miles, PhD
- Big Red and the Little Bitty Wolf: A Story About Bullying by Jeanie Franz Ransom
- Emily Grace and the What-Ifs: A Story for Children About Nighttime Fears by Lisa B. Gehring
- Somebody Cares: A Guide for Kids Who Have Experienced Neglect by Susan Farber Straus, PhD
- Move Your Mood! by Brenda S. Miles, PhD and Colleen A. Patterson, MA
- Danny and the Blue Cloud: Coping With Childhood Depression by James M. Foley, DEd
Magination Press received regular high-profile reviews or editorial mention in such publications as the Booklist, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Midwest Book Review, ForeWord, ADDitude, and Portland Book Review. The following honors were awarded to Magination Press in 2016:
- Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid (Magination Press ®) received the Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award for Motivation and Inspiration.
- The Tween Book: A Growing-Up Guide for the Changing You (Magination Press ®) was named a Gold Medal winner by the 2016 Nautilus Awards in the Middle Grade Nonfiction category.
- Bounce Back: How to Be a Resilient Kid (Magination Press ®) was named a Finalist in the Indiefab Book of the Year Awards.
- Lucy in the City: A Story About Developing Spatial Thinking Skills (Magination Press ®) was named a Finalist in the Indiefab Book of the Year Awards.
- What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake (Magination Press ®) was named a Finalist in the Indiefab Book of the Year Awards.
- Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways (Magination Press ®) was named a Gold Medal winner in the Mom’s Choice Awards.
- Don't Put Yourself Down in Circus Town: A Story About Self-Confidence (Magination Press ®) was named a Gold Medal winner in the Mom’s Choice Awards.
- Somebody Cares: A Guide for Kids Who Have Experienced Neglect (Magination Press ®) received 1 st place in the 2016 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards for Picture Books ages 6 & Older.
- Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways (Magination Press ®) received 2 nd place in the 2016 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards for Picture Books ages 6 & Older.
- Move Your Mood! (Magination Press ®) received Honorable Mention in the 2016 Purple Dragonfly Book Awards for Picture Books ages 6 & Older.
- Ouch Moments: When Words Are Used in Hurtful Ways (Magination Press ®) was named a winner in the 2016 Family Choice Awards.
The Video division of APA Books released 18 videos on DVD, 36 videos into PsycTHERAPY,® APA’s database of streaming psychotherapy videos, and 250 videos into Alexander Street Press’s Academic Video Store, who have been licensed by APA Books to distribute all APA Videos in streaming format on a title-by-title basis. The 2016 new video releases include:
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Supervision (Diana Fosha)
- Attachment in Group Therapy: Facilitating the Group Climate (Cheri L. Marmarosh)
- Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy Supervision (Cory F. Newman)
- Competency-Based Supervision (Carol A. Falender and Edward P. Shafranske)
- Critical Events in Psychotherapy Supervision (Nicholas Ladany)
- Emotion-Focused Therapy Supervision (Leslie S. Greenberg)
- Existential–Humanistic Psychotherapy Supervision (Kirk J. Schneider)
- Feminist Therapy Supervision (Laura S. Brown)
- Integrative Psychotherapy Supervision (John C. Norcross)
- Intimate Partner Violence (Casey T. Taft)
- Mentalization-Based Therapy (Norka T. Malberg)
- Mindfulness for Insomnia (Jason C. Ong)
- The MMPI in Practice (David M. McCord)
- Responding Therapeutically to Anger
- Responding Therapeutically to Negative Reactions
- The Rorschach Inkblot Test in Practice (James P. Choca)
- Systems Approach to Psychotherapy Supervision (Elizabeth L. Holloway)
- Therapeutic Assessment With Adults (Stephen E. Finn)
Electronic Resources
APA Style CENTRAL® (ASC) launched in July 2016 as APA’s premier online application which offers a suite of integrated services and tools designed to help students learn and apply APA Style®.
In 2016, several new features were introduced in PsycNET, including data sets; open access markers; journal title translations for non-English titles; medical subject headings (MESH); clinical trial numbers; detailed descriptions of dissertations with advisor names, degree earned, and institution name; new document types, and new population groups.
206,092 records were released into the PsycINFO database in 2016, bringing the total number of records in the database to 4,216,121. In addition, 7,179,987 cited references were released, bringing the total number of cited references in the database to 93,865,286. The number of journals covered by PsycINFO at the end of 2016 was 2,471. PsycINFO also includes the metadata records for the PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, and PsycCRITIQUES databases:
- 13,167 new records were added to the PsycARTICLES database, bringing the total metadata records to 348,239.
- 47 APA books and 22 classic books, accompanied by 1027 chapter records, were added to PsycBOOKS. There are now 1,147 APA books plus 3,195 classic books on psychology in the database. At the end of the year, PsycBOOKS contained 4,330 books and 64,864 chapters.
- 520 book and film reviews were added to the PsycCRITIQUES database, bringing the database total to 42,529.
- The PsycTESTS database grew by 9,807 new records, totaling 42,548 records by the end of the year. One of the major challenges facing this database is the difficulty of providing full tests -- survey data from PsycTESTS users indicated that this was the feature of the database they most valued. The percentage of records with full tests was 54%.
- In 2015, re-evaluation of the PsycEXTRA database to identify opportunities for greater utility of resources resulted in the decision to make that database an archive for APA and APA-related content only. 2,560 such archival records were added to PsycEXTRA in 2016, including abstracts and presentations from the 2016 APA Convention..
- Approximately 2,900 website pages were indexed in 2016 for APA’s public website, www.apa.org. Much of this content is also archived in the PsycEXTRA database.
Sales and Marketing
As of year-end 2016, the marketing programs for electronic products, books, and journals contributed to and supported product sales efforts by collectively producing 172 direct mail campaigns, 7 catalogs, 140 email campaigns, 267 paid advertisements, 114 house advertisements, 1 telemarketing campaign,4 press releases, 1,310 book publicity mailings, more than 1,500 promotional messages included in PsycALERT notifications, and booth displays at on-site exhibitions and product displays handled by outside vendors at additional conferences. In combination, all such efforts resulted in more than 28,100,000 promotional exposures for the year.
Through year-end 2016, the Exhibitions Marketing program has organized booth displays at 47 conferences, both in the US and internationally, with a combined attendance of about 2,258,600. Books and journals were promoted at an additional 54 conferences handled by outside vendors.