New tool for teaching about substance use disorders
APA has created a free curriculum to help psychology graduate school faculty, postdoctoral directors, and internship directors meet the rising need for psychologists with expertise in substance use treatment. APA’s Substance Use Disorders Curriculum, created with funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, provides quality training on helping patients with substance use disorders. The six-module curriculum covers the basic knowledge and skills of screening, assessing, and treating substance use disorders, including guidance on a variety of subtopics such as working with vulnerable populations. The curriculum includes online learning modules and a video-on-demand program for use during the COVID-19 pandemic and a variety of additional resources and readings to deepen students’ learning. APA is recruiting psychology graduate programs to use the curriculum, provided that the program directors collect data on student progress and instructor satisfaction.
To sign up, contact Rish Verma.
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- Navigating Difficult Moments in Teaching Diversity and Social Justice
This new guide from APA Books helps educators tackle challenging dilemmas that may arise in courses that focus on social justice and diversity-related issues. - Invisible No More: Psychology, American Indians/Alaska Natives and COVID-19opens in new window
This webinar covers how the pandemic has intensified substance use and other challenges in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. - Psychological Practice in the Pandemic Era: Legal and Risk Management Considerationsopens in new window
This webinar provides guidance on a variety of the challenges in delivering services during the pandemic.
Share your work in Technology, Mind, and Behavior
Understanding the human–technology connection has never felt more critical than during the COVID-19 pandemic. APA’s open access, interdisciplinary journal Technology, Mind, and Behavior features cutting-edge basic and applied scholarship on how people use and experience a range of technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, mobile devices, social media, gaming, nanotechnology, and biomedical tech. The journal also seeks work on technology’s use and impact on education, recreation, and the workplace, and broad analyses on some of the emerging ethical dilemmas and social issues surrounding technology.
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APA’s new president-elect
Members have elected Frank C. Worrell, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, as APA’s 2022 president.
Jennifer F. Kelly, PhD, ABPP
APA President
APA 2021 President Jennifer Kelly’s passion for service and advocacy was ignited while she was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, in the segregated South. Her parents spent their spare time mobilizing the community in support of Black suffrage while also raising 10 children. “They truly understood the power of the vote and never took it for granted,” she says, of her mother, a beautician, and father, a World War II veteran who worked for a pharmaceutical company. Here’s a quick look at Kelly’s life and values, in her own words.
First job: A “pesticides residue analysis technician” with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. I was studying the effects of pesticides on soil, plants, and wildlife through a program that offered summer jobs to low-income high school students.
Why you chose psychology: During my first psychology course at age 17, I became fascinated with the power of the brain and mind. Even at that age I knew psychology could have a major impact in changing society and people’s lives. I wanted to be a part of that movement.
Someone who had a strong influence on your life: My mother. She really understood the value of education and made sure that her children had the opportunity to achieve to their potential.
Proudest moment: Being able to build my parents a home. To me, it went full circle—them investing in me and my future, and me in turn investing in their lives by providing safe housing and security.
Early bird or night owl: Both. I look forward to meeting and greeting the day, and my creative juices continue to flow at night.
Favorite place you’ve traveled: Twenty years ago, I had an opportunity to go to Kenya. It was the most amazing, uplifting experience to meet and talk with the people, the heart and soul of Africa, a beloved continent.
What you wish you had known 20 years ago: That we should spend every day enjoying life to its fullest. Know that hardships will come, but we are resilient people.
Best advice you’ve gotten: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Be kind and patient with others.
Leader you most admire: Martin Luther King Jr. Without a doubt, I know that I would not be where I am today without his courage, perseverance, and faith.