APA Member Services. (2021, April 5). APA town hall: Addressing stress in America and APA’s role in this reality. https://www.apa.org/members/content/town-hall-addressing-stress
Recent findings from APA’s Stress in America survey show a nation trying to work through collective trauma. This extended period of elevated stress is leading people to engage in maladaptive coping behaviors, exacerbating existing health-related disparities, and creating a secondary pandemic of new and worsening mental health challenges.
What role does APA play in this emerging reality?
In this town hall, APA 2021 president Jennifer F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP, and CEO Arthur C. Evans, Jr., PhD, discuss the topic of stress and how APA can support its members as they work to take care, not only of their communities, but of themselves and their own wellbeing as clinicians, researchers, educators, supervisors, and administrators during this challenging time. Featuring special guest Helen L. Coons, PhD, ABPP, president of APA’s Div. 38 (Society for Health Psychology), the discussion includes Stress in America data highlights, examples of the population health perspective APA is using to address the nation’s stress, and actionable resources and strategies to reduce stress in your communities and promote your own healthy coping.
