December 2004 | Monitor on Psychology
Vol. 35 No. 11
On the Cover: Mental health help for children
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Children's mental health problems seen as 'epidemic'
Psychologists advocate a systems-wide change with the child at the center.
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Should our children be taking psychotropics?
An APA group is reviewing children's use of psychoactive medications and will examine psychologists' current and future roles in the area.
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What's new in children's mental health
Creative ways of reaching children and using resources distinguish some fresh interventions.
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Effective education for autism
Psychologists are working to help struggling schools--faced with limited budgets and increasing enrollment--educate children with autism.
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A dilemma of definition
Refined understanding of disorders within the autism spectrum may aid research and treatment, some researchers claim.
SCIENCE WATCH
Emotional memory may linger longer than factual memory--a finding that may lead to improved dementia tests and therapies.
IN BRIEF
- Knowledge, perspective can lessen terrorism-anxiety
- Positive reinforcement helps children avoid junk food
- Women like women more than men like men
- Four-year-olds use eye-gaze cues to detect deception
- Two psychologists win Presidential Early Career Award
- APA launches campaign to support psychological science
- Survey reveals employment trends for medical school psychologists
- Family circumstances, not children's misbehavior, spur abuse
- Personality disorders may change over time
- Chen named new SPSSI Scholar
- APA honors champion for student wellness
ETHICS ROUNDS
The Ethics Code seeks to avoid harm and protect autonomy, informed by solid clinical thinking and good research.
Features
Research using a computer model aims to unify dueling theories on how people read.
A group of social scientists hunts down unpublished studies and aims to inform policy through thorough meta-analysis.
A community college professor has created a successful student research program--providing an example for other two-year colleges.
APA recognizes 10 companies for best practices in promoting psychologically healthy workplaces.
Rhode Island psychologists recently made major inroads with a health insurance giant.
An APA-sponsored program garners $1.6 million to continue shepherding ethnic minorities into the biomedical sciences.
Community psychologist Ken Miller is coordinating a team effort to measure mental health distress and resilience among Afghans in the impoverished, war-torn country.
Two new research databases will help psychologists locate gray literature and book chapters.
PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE
Psychologists made the federal case for science, education and public interest policies this year.
COLUMNS
From the CEO
In the Public Interest
Judicial Notebook
President's Column
Science Directions