Digital media: Healthy video viewing guide
Today’s teens consume video content across various platforms, often for several hours daily. This guide helps parents navigate the complex world of teen video viewing. It translates hundreds of rigorous studies on teen development, mental health, and well-being into practical strategies for parents to promote healthy viewing habits, balanced screen time, media literacy skills, and more. Learn how to empower your patients to help teens navigate the digital media landscapeopens in new window in a healthy way.
Advocacy: How APA is standing with science
Current policy changes are creating challenges for psychologists across research, education, and practice. APA’s recent efforts to support the field and the broad impact of psychology include joining nearly 50 other scientific organizations in a letter of support for U.S. researchers, educators, and academics and taking nearly 200 psychologists to Capitol Hill to engage directly with decision-makers. Read about APA’s efforts and get involved at our Response Center.
Technology: APA labs
APA Labs, APA’s new business unit, is designed to address pressing challenges in mental health and well-being through creative, collaborative, psychology-centered solutions. APA Labs will engage with psychologists, tech leaders, investors, and stakeholders to shape ethical, effective, and psychology-driven innovation. Sign up for updates, exclusive insights, and announcements about this work.
Newsletter: Psychology for a Better You
Sign up for APA’s monthly LinkedIn newsletter, Psychology for a Better Youopens in new window. Get quick, science-backed takeaways for everyday life that improve the way people live, work, learn, and much more. APA’s latest newsletter has been a smash hit, gaining more than 200,000 followers within the first 2 weeks of its launch. Anyone with a LinkedIn account can subscribe. In between issues, you can see the latest news for the field of psychology on APA’s LinkedIn page.
Podcast: How to say no: The power of defiance
Ever feel pressured to say yes when you really want to say no or go along just to get along? In this Speaking of Psychology episode, organizational psychologist Sunita Sah, PhD, author of Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes, delves into the difficulty of speaking up. Sah offers tips on how to strengthen your resolve and ability to say no when the situation calls for it.
Practice: New guidance on cultural humility
The APA book Cultural Humility guides therapists in engaging with patients’ cultural identities. It provides strategies to improve cultural humility and comfort in working with diverse patients. This updated edition, to be published on June 17, includes new theories, research, and recommendations for therapists from marginalized groups to navigate cultural issues in the treatment space. It also offers insights on developing strong alliances with patients, navigating value differences, and repairing the relationship after cultural ruptures.
Caring for students: Helping students who have experienced a crisis
Teachers play an important role in facilitating student learning, well-being, and growth. Help them support students through crises with this essential mental health primer. This resource helps teachers identify crisis-related behaviors in the classroom and lists practical dos and don’ts for how to effectively respond. Share this primer with the educators you know.
Children's mental health: Mindful Nature—Connecting With Our Great Green World
This engaging resource, designed for young readers ages 4 to 8, combines beautiful and calming thought prompts with captivating nature photography. Published in partnership with the National Wildlife Federation, this book features images of various wildlife, from charming critters to majestic animals, that encourage kids to develop a deep connection with nature. Mindful Nature aims to support children’s emotional well-being and promote a peaceful, contented state of mind.
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