Helping Sesame Street help families
APA is in its third year of partnering with Sesame Street in Communities. The arm of the iconic children’s program offers multimedia tools and resources in English and Spanish to support parents and caregivers in fostering children’s healthy development. Sesame Street in Communities offers content and guidance on a wide range of topics, from school readiness to building healthy habits to tough issues, such as divorce and food insecurity. APA has been working with Sesame Street in Communities to provide expert psychological guidance on racial justice, early childhood mental health, and how traumatic experiences affect children. Check out all the Sesame Street in Communities resourcesopens in new window.
Protecting kids online
APA’s Chief Science Officer Mitch Prinstein, PhD, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in February on how certain features and content inherent in social media can harm children. Read more about his comments and recommendations.
Speaking of Psychology
Sarah H. Lisanby, MD, of the National Institute of Mental Health, joins APA’s Speaking of Psychology podcast to talk about new research on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and other brain stimulation treatments for mental health disorders including depression and anxiety. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Stay in the know
Psychologists and students can stay up to date on the latest news in psychology with Six Things Psychologists Are Talking About, APA’s biweekly e-newsletter. Six Things offers the best in psychology journalism to help readers stay current on trends in the field, new research, and much more between issues of the Monitor. Subscribe online.
3 things to do this month: Learn something new and advance your work
- Attend free science trainings
APA is hosting three free science training sessions in April: An introduction to group iterative multiple model estimation (GIMME) on April 6; an introduction to artificial intelligence for behavioral scientists on April 13; and an introduction to missing data analyses on April 25. Learn more and register. - Learn how to vaccinate children against the virus of racism
APA is sharing noteworthy talks from APA 2022 every week leading up to APA 2023, to be held August 3–5, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Recently shared videos include a keynote presentation on “Vaccinating Children Against the Virus of Racism” by antiracism advocate Raina Elyse Anderson, PhD, of the University of Michigan. Anderson explores racism as a social disease and talks about prevention and intervention tools that can inoculate children against it. Watch this and other talks from APA 2022 at YouTubeopens in new window. To learn more about APA 2023, visit the APA 2023 websiteopens in new window. - Choose the nominees for APA’s 2025 president
Nomination ballots for APA’s 2024 president-elect/2025 president went out to all APA members with email addresses on record on March 1 and will close on April 17. The electronic ballot will have a search function that will allow members to search the names of all APA members and nominate up to five people for president. Learn more.
Go digital
APA’s Publication Manualopens in new window is available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle, RedShelf, and VitalSource, alongside the best-selling print editions that are widely available wherever books are sold.
Did you know?
Many of APA’s public-facing web pages, including those on healthy workplaces, mental health, and parenting, have been revamped and refreshed to include new science-based resources, products, and content for psychologists and other scientists, health care professionals, patients, parents, and more. Go to APA Topics.
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