Easing children’s anxiety
APA’s Magination Press has three new titles aimed at helping children cope with worrisome events in the news and the lingering stress of the pandemic.
All the Feelings Under the Sun: How to Deal With Climate Change
Informative text and activities help young readers manage anxiety about the climate crisis and learn how they can help change things for the better. Go to All the Feelings Under the Sun .
What to Do When the News Scares You: A Kid’s Guide to Understanding Current Events
This guide—coming in October in both English and Spanish—tackles children’s feelings of anxiety around many different types of current events and provides a way to help children put scary events like violence and extreme weather into perspective. Go to What to Do When the News Scares You: A Kid’s Guide to Understanding Current Events .
Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence
This follow-up to the best-selling Something Happened in Our Town explores gun violence: its effects on communities, how people can work together to reduce its likelihood, and how children can manage their fears in the aftermath of a shooting. Go to Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence .
Monitor , podcast honored for excellence
APA earned five Excel Awards in June from the Association Media & Publishing Network. The Monitor earned a gold award for its June 2020 pandemic response issue and bronze awards in three categories: general excellence for overall editorial content and coverage across all eight 2020 issues, excellence for the magazine’s design across all eight 2020 issues, and pandemic response feature article (“How COVID-19 Attacks the Brain” in the November/December 2020 issue). APA’s podcast, Speaking of Psychology , won a gold award for best podcast.
Health equity in psychotherapy
Attend APA’s Professional Development Training Institute: Health Equity, Social Justice, and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy on Oct. 15. The daylong virtual institute will focus on critical issues regarding health disparities and psychology’s contributions to ensuring equitable access to, and delivery of, effective services to diverse populations. Attendees earn 1.5 continuing-education credits for each of four 90-minute live webinars; up to 6 credits total.
Psychology, technology, and the future
Learn more about the critical role psychology plays in human-technology interaction at APA’s fourth annual Technology, Mind & Society conference, held virtually Nov. 3–5. Keynote speakers will include Alison Gopnik, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley; Rosemary Luckin, PhD, of University College London; Tsedal Neeley, PhD, of Harvard Business School; and Frank Pasquale, JD, of Brooklyn Law School. Sign up to receive conference updates and registration informationopens in new window.
Attract new clients via social media
Learn the latest strategies for marketing your practice on social media at the Nov. 12 webinar “How to Grow Your Private Practice with Social Media Marketing,” hosted by Brighter Vision. The session will cover common questions about ethical posting, privacy, HIPAA violations, and more. Can’t attend? Register anyway to receive the recording 2 weeks after the live event.
3 things to do this month
Raise your voice & advance your work
1. Vote for APA's president elect
APA members have nominated Kirk J. Schneider, PhD; Thema S. Bryant-Davis, PhD; Mary Ann McCabe, PhD; Diana L. Prescott, PhD; and Beth N. Rom-Rymer, PhD, to run for APA’s 2023 presidency. The five candidates responded to six questions from APA’s boards and committees throughout the summer.
APA will send ballots to all voting members on Sept. 15. The ballot will also list two slates of candidates for APA’s Board of Directors. Send questions about the election to Elections email.
2. Help students master APA Style
APA’s Mastering APA Style Student Workbook, an online, interactive instructional tool for learning APA Style, will be available for purchase in September. Designed specifically for students and others new to APA Style, the digital workbook includes more than 1,000 questions across nine modules on topics such as bias-free language, writing style and grammar, numbers and statistics, in-text citations, and more. APA Style experts wrote the questions and used best practices in learning design to provide comprehensive instruction, real-time feedback, and multiple opportunities to practice and learn. The workbook can be purchased by individual users or adopted by an instructor or institution as part of a course or workshop. Subscribe to the APA Style monthly newsletter for updates and writing tips at APA Style.
3. Stream APA 2021 content
More than 1,000 presentations from APA’s 2021 convention last month are now available to streamopens in new window through Nov. 15. Convention registrants are automatically able to view all of the on-demand content; those who missed the live meeting can register for on-demand access prior to Nov. 15.
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