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Press Releases

• APA Report on Gun Violence Identifies Precursors and Promising Solutions

  December 12, 2013

  Behavioral threat assessment identified as most effective prevention strategy

• Video Games Play May Provide Learning, Health, Social Benefits, Review Finds

  November 25, 2013

  Authors suggest balancing questions of harm with potential for positive impact

• APA Urges End to Sequestration

  November 13, 2013

  Decries eroding investments in scientific research, public health, education

• Current Book Titles Available Electronically from the American Psychological Association

  November 12, 2013

• American Psychological Association Statement Commending the Final Regulation for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008

  November 8, 2013

Policy Statements

• Council Policy Manual

  The Council Policy Manual is a collection of policy actions taken by the APA Council of Representatives from 1960 to the present. These are official APA policies, covering issues such as convention affairs, education, ethics, ethnic minority affairs, international affairs, practice and science.

• APA Council of Representatives Directs Change in its Ethics Code to Prevent So-Called Nuremberg Defense

  The APA Ethics Committee has said that no defense for torture will ever be acceptable within the APA ethics adjudication process.

• APA Actions to Implement the Council Resolutions Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

  The American Psychological Association (APA) has undertaken several actions over the past year to implement the APA Council of Representatives resolutions against torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

News Responses

• Response to George Will’s Column about Same-Sex Marriage

  Donald N. Bersoff, PhD, JD, writes letter to the editor pointing out inaccurate and misleading assertions in Washington Post column

• APA on Children Raised by Gay and Lesbian Parents

  How do these children fare?

• Stress is no laughing matter

  Letter to the editor in response to the Washington Post coverage of the release of the “Stress in America” survey on too much stress.

• APA Issues Clarification on Psychology Employment Data

  APA responds to an NPR report about psychology employment and clarifies the data source, the number of psychology degree types, and the popularity of psychology as a major.

• Cynthia Belar Response Letter to the New York Times

  Letter to the editor in response to the New York Times magazine's article "Intern Gap Frustrates Clinicians in Training."

• APA Response to Time Magazine Online Q&A With Alan Kazdin

  APA President Melba J.T. Vasquez, PhD, authors a letter to the editor in response to Time magazine's article "Q&A: Yale Psychologist Calls for the End of Individual Psychotherapy"

• APA Response to New York Times on Psychiatry and Drug Therapy

  APA CEO Norman Anderson, PhD, authors a letter to the editor in response to the article "Talk Doesn't Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy."

Op-Eds

• Beyond Medicine: Addressing Broader Roots of Illness in Health Care Reform

  Op-Ed from APA CEO Norman B. Anderson about integrating psychology into health care reform.

• Saying it Again: Psychologists May Never Participate in Torture

  EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an opinion editorial by the president of the American Psychological Association responding to recent media reports surrounding Bush administration memos seeking to justify the use of harsh interrogation techniques. Feel free to reprint it in its entirety with credit to APA and Dr. James H. Bray .

Task Force Reports

• Psychology and Global Climate Change:
  Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges

  The task force examined psychology’s role in understanding and addressing global climate change, including efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change.