This is a cross-post from Adler University’s “The Socially Responsible Practitioner” blog.  Joshua Wolff, PhD (Assistant Professor of...

By Elizabeth Mazur, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychology, Penn State University) In February 2016, Ethan Okula, a 10 year-old child in...

By Robin Gurwitch, PhD The assassination of John F. Kennedy. The explosion of the Challenger. The terrorist attacks of September 11,...

By Dawn Henderson, PhD (Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University) and Alexis Lunford (Research Assistant) Witnessing or...

By Clinton Anderson, PhD (Director, APA Office on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns) & Lacey Rosenbaum, MEd (Director, APA...

By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Families around the country are coming together to talk about the officer-involved shootings in Louisiana,...

By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Once again our nation is coping with a violent tragedy.  In the aftermath of the Orlando terrorist attack, we find...

What comes to mind when you hear the words “sex trafficking”? If you’re like a lot of people, you might think of a sinister alley in a...

By Efua Andoh (APA Public Interest Communications Staff) What keeps you up at night? For many parents or caregivers, 9 times out of 10...

By Jodi A. Quas, PhD (Professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine) Recently , an amazing statement was...

Image source: Flickr user Laurinda on Flickr, under Creative Commons By Sara Buckingham (PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology and...

In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues from...

By Michael Rees (Senior at Hammond High School) In 2013, almost a quarter of high school students in the U.S. reported that they had been...

By Dawn X. Henderson, PhD (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Winston-Salem State University) Some of the lines in the classic 1982...

When you think of the psychological harm that incarceration can cause, what is the first picture that comes to mind? Did you think about...

By Alette Coble-Temple, PsyD (Ms. Wheelchair California 2015 and Professor, John F. Kennedy University) Becoming a parent is considered a...

Is your dad your rock? Your mentor? Your best friend? If so, we want to hear from you. We’re joining the #MyDadIs campaign to highlight...

This is a cross-post from our fellow APA blog – GradPsychBlog, the official blog of the American Psychological Association of Graduate...

Doug Tynan, PhD (Director, Integrated Healthcare, APA Center for Psychology and Health) An estimated 194,000 toddlers and preschoolers...

Parenting is hard work. Every parent or caregiver hopes that childhood and adolescence could be a carefree time in their kids’ lives....