June 2015 | Monitor on Psychology
Vol. 46 No. 6
On the Cover: Getting to know Cuba
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Getting to know Cuba
In the last few years, APA has sent three groups of psychologists to Cuba to learn about the prized position psychology holds in the country's integrated health-care system. With doors to the island nation opening up, American psychologists are eager to absorb even more and build closer relationships.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Cecil Reynolds, PhD, shares his excitement about the Archives of Scientific Psychology, the APA journal he began co-editing this year.
ETHICALLY SPEAKING
In an attempt to determine what is behind a patient’s improvement, is it ethical to remove a treatment component that appears to be helping?
Features
News from APA's Center for Workforce Studies.
A program in the United Kingdom has improved access to psychological therapies. Can evidence-based clinical practice guidelines do the same here?
A new class of robots provides social and cognitive support.
Prison inmates are gaining parenting tools from APA’s ACT Raising Safe Kids program.
Researchers have identified easy ways to boost student success by increasing their engagement in learning.
APA’s Education Directorate looks back on 25 years of serving psychology.
UPFRONT
- Online tool allows members to tailor communications from APA
- APA applauds President Obama’s call to end use of therapies intended to change sexual orientation
- NIH report encourages a more complete view of culture
- APA journal focuses on mental health, substance abuse and criminal justice
- Apply for one-year fellowship at the World Health Organization
- Studies with animals can improve interventions for children, says APA
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are more common than thought, say researchers at congressional briefing
- APA urges end to persecution of women
RANDOM SAMPLE
EPPP exam expert, child psychologist and devoted dad.
CANDIDATES FOR APA PRESIDENT
Members will elect the association’s next president this fall.
COLUMNS
From the CEO
In the Public Interest
Judicial Notebook
President's Column