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What Can Our Kids Tell Us About Gun Violence?
By Tina Wolridge (Communications Coordinator, APA Public Interest Directorate) It seems that gun violence is all around my life. Homicides, assaults, robberies, shootings, and weapon violations are...
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“Hate Being Sober”: Lessons from Rap Music to Address Substance Use among...
By Cendrine Robinson, MS (Doctoral Candidate in Medical and Clinical Psychology) Chicago native, rapper Chief Keef’s song Hate Being Sober (Cozart, Jackson, Thomaz & Pittman, 2012) has over 10...
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The Charleston Shooting and the Psychology of Hate, Looking Forward to...
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (our roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues from multiple news and commentary websites), we cover the...
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How to Talk to Our Kids about the Tragic Shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota...
By Robin Gurwitch, PhD Families around the country are coming together to talk about the officer-involved shootings in Louisiana, Minnesota, and the ambush of police officers in Dallas, Texas. These...
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New CDC Survey Data Confirm the Severe Health Risks LGB Youth Face
By Clinton Anderson, PhD (Director, APA Office on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns) & Lacey Rosenbaum, MEd (Director, APA Safe and Supportive Schools Project) On August 11, 2016,...
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How Do We Prevent Youth Violence? It Starts with Tolerance and Respect
Kelsey Dunn (Summer 2016 Intern, APA Children, Youth and Families Office) According to the United Nations, tolerance is “respect and appreciation of the rich variety of our world’s cultures, our...
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Historical Trauma in the Present: Why APA Cannot Remain Silent on the Dakota...
By Susan H. McDaniel, PhD (2016 APA President) Protesters being marked with numbers, put in dog kennels and shot with rubber bullets. These do not sound like events that should occur in modern day...
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Don’t Blame Mental Illness for Our Nation’s Gun Violence Epidemic
Today is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, a day set aside to remember and honor the victims to gun violence. Each year in the United States, over 30,000 people die by suicide, homicide, and...
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Stop the Abuse: Why We Can’t Neglect Women with Disabilities When We Talk...
This is the second in a series of blog posts on the issue of violence against women and girls. The blog series is brought to you by the APA Committee on Women in Psychology. Make sure to check out the...
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Layers and Layers of Grief upon Grief: The Epidemic of Missing and Murdered...
By Iva GreyWolf, PhD, and Charlotte McCloskey, PhD As Native American psychologists, we appreciate the opportunity to share little known information about our communities of origin with our fellow...
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