Monitor on Psychology

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Optimizing tech for older adults

Psychologists help study, design, and adapt technologies to make them intuitively understandable for older adults
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Treating patients with long COVID

Psychologists play a critical role in patient recovery and preparation for an uncertain future

COVER STORY

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Deradicalizing domestic extremists

Psychologists are using their expertise in human behavior to identify ways to deradicalize and disengage domestic extremists

NEWS

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The extra weight of
COVID-19

Weight gain and disordered eating spiked during the stress of the pandemic
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The mental health impact of anti-Asian racism

Psychologists are identifying ways to address the distress caused by hate
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Building mental health into emergency responses

More cities are pairing mental health professionals with police to better help people in crisis

CE CORNER

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Improved treatment for developmental trauma

A growing body of research is leading many psychologists to call for the inclusion of complex childhood trauma in various classification systems

RESEARCH

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In brief

Female CEOs under threat

Datapoint

A psychology major opens doors

Undergraduate psychology studies build skills valuable in the job market
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By the numbers

Dark clouds, silver linings

CAREER

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Managing your clinical team at a group practice

How to handle clinician bad behavior and keep misconduct from happening in the first place
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Moving into your first independent research job

Tips on making the move from postdoc to lab director a smooth one
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Finding well-being where cancer and aging meet

The Psycho-Oncology in Aging and Cancer Laboratory focuses on older adults with cancer
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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN

Seeking structural change

The pandemic disproportionately hurt those without access to care. We can fix that.
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UPDATE FROM THE CEO

Envisioning the post-pandemic workplace

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JUDICIAL NOTEBOOK

Do Asian American applicants face discrimination in admissions?

Tara Behrend
CONVERSATION

5 questions for Tara S. Behrend

The program director for the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Science of Organizations program shares what happens behind the scenes at a funding agency
PEOPLE

Psychologists in the news

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Date created: July 2021

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