How to Get Your Children to Eat Better, Brain’s Signaling Systems Might Determine PTSD Severit

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Creating New Holiday Traditions: 10 Questions to Ask Your Older Relatives

iStock.com/Photo by FangXiaNuo/Getty Images. By Kimberly E. Hiroto, PhD (Clinical Geropsychologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System,...

Can a Bystander Make a Difference in Sexual Assault Prevention?

Image source: Flickr user bitsorf: Thank you 1,500,000 times on Flickr, under Creative Commons By Amy Zavadil , PhD (Associate Dean for...

7 Ways in Which Charlie Sheen Is the Same as Everyone With HIV

iStock.com/Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images. By David Martin, PhD, ABPP (Senior Director, APA Office on AIDS) Charlie Sheen revealed in...

Addressing Biased Policing Through Science-Based Training

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Lorie Fridell, PhD...

Ferguson: One Year Later

2015 APA Annual Convention Sunday marked exactly one year since 18-year-old Michael Brown’s fatal shooting by a police officer in...

5 Ways Black Churches are Engaging in HIV Prevention

By Terrinieka Williams Powell, PhD (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) The CDC notes that...

Justice for All… Experiences of Undocumented Youth with Law Enforcement

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By J. Manuel Casas, PhD...

Black (Women’s?) Lives Matter: Microaggression and the Erasure of Violence Against Women of Color

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By LisaLyn Jacobs, JD...

Crossing Boundaries: How Intergroup Contact Can Reduce Racial Anxiety and Improve Race Relations

This is part of our ongoing series of blog posts about race, racism and law enforcement in communities of color. By Linda R. Tropp, PhD...

Is It You or Is It Racist? The Insidious Impact of Microaggressions on Mental Health

By Debra Roberts, PhD (Howard University) and Sherry Molock, PhD (George Washington University) Several years ago, I was at a national...

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