By Abigail Luke (Intern, APA Public Interest Government Relations Office) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment...

By Sheri R. Levy, PhD, MaryBeth Apriceno, Ashley Lytle, PhD , and Jamie L. Macdonald The holiday season has a way of encouraging acts of...

By Kumea Shorter-Gooden, PhD (Former Chief Diversity Officer, University of Maryland) I’m hoping we’ve reached an inflection point. I’m...

By Sharron Hinchliff, PhD (Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield UK) Every year, on October 1st,  we celebrate the International Day...

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

By Susan H. McDaniel, PhD Longstanding tensions between police and communities of color have reached a boiling point in the United...

By David J. Martin, PhD, ABPP (Senior Director, APA Office on AIDS) In the aftermath of the mass shooting of LGBT people in an Orlando...

By Skyler Jackson, MS (Doctoral Student in Counseling Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park) On June 12, 2016 rapid gunfire...

APA President) and Cynthia D. Belar, PhD (APA Interim CEO) June 28 is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, which launched lesbian and...

By Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia, PhD (Montclair State University) and Saba Rasheed Ali, PhD (University of Iowa) A Muslim mom, Melissa Chance...

Most people hope to live long lives, yet American culture is filled with negative images of getting older. Older adulthood is thought of...

By Mark Brennan-Ing, PhD (Director for Research and Evaluation at ACRIA, Center on HIV and Aging ) When we talk about fully including...

Zella Ziona, transgender woman murdered in Gaithersburg, MD, October 15, 2015. By Sand C. Chang, PhD (Gender Specialist, Multi-Specialty...

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

Three cheers for the ADA at 25 years of age! The signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law in July 1990 dramatically...

In this week’s In Case You Missed It (our roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues...

In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues that...

By Brandy Smith, PhD (Diversity Coordinator and Interim Training Coordinator at Auburn University Student Counseling Services) Have you...

Division 17 Older Adult Special Interest Group by Kelly Martincin, M.A. My family has a tradition of a light-hearted competition of who...

By Tarynn Witten, PhD, LCSW (Member, APA Division 44*) & Brian Carpenter, PhD (Member, APA Committee on Aging) The award-winning Amazon...