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How Stressed Are Kids? More Than We Think

usatoday.com | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, American Psychological Association, Mental Health, Relationships, Children, Financial Crisis, Psychology, Anxiety, Children's Health, Stress Reduction, Living News

Worrying about school and about their family's finances are causing the most stress for kids, according to the American Psychological Association, whi...

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APA Stress Survey: Denver Is Most Stressed Out City

Rueters | Posted 11.03.2009 | Denver

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The American Psychological Association released its annual survey examining stress levels across the country this week, revealing that 75 percent of D...

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A Flexible Workplace Is a Happier, Healthier Workplace

Annie Toro | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: American Psychological Association, Maria Shriver, Mental Health Awareness Month, National Work and Family Month, The Shriver Report, Business News
Annie Toro

Research shows that employers benefit from offering greater workplace flexibility. When employees receive the flexibility they need, there is less absenteeism and greater job satisfaction.

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Interrupting Unfriendly Persuasion

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Psychological Association, Torture, The Fog of War, 9/11, CIA Torture, Psychologists, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Iraq, Psychology, Persuasion, Iraq War, Robert S. McNamara, Bush Administration Torture, American Soldiers, Vietnam, Bush Enhanced Interrogations, Vietnam Veterans, New York Times, Enhanced Interrogations, Psychologists-Torture, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

When persuasion is used without regard for the other person, when it becomes sadistic and reckless endangerment, it is what we have come to know as torture.

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APA Was Right To Reject Harmful 'Ex-Gay' Therapy

Wayne Besen | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Psychological Association, Apa, Alan Chambers, Mike Jones, Reparative Therapy, Ex-Gay, Former Homosexual, Pfox, Exodus International, Narth, Psychological Abuse, Politics News
Wayne Besen

Groups like Exodus and the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), regularly encourage clients to say they have converted, even though they are still gay

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The American Psychological Association and Torture: The Day the Tide Turned

Bryant Welch | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, American Psychological Association, Psychology, Interrogation, Bush Administration, Torture, Politics News
Bryant Welch

How the APA turned psychology away from humanitarian values is a study in organizational failure and professional disaster.

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 08.06.2009 | New York

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God’s Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News
Jim Luce

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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Torture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story Behind Psychology's Role in Torture

Bryant Welch | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Bryant Welch

The transformation of the APA in the past decade from a historically liberal organization to an authoritarian one that actively assists in torture has been an astonishing process.

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Let Us Give Thanks

Roger Fransecky | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living

Read More: John Ciardi, Saying Thanks, American Psychological Association, Recession-Related Depression, Thanksgiving, Gallup Polls, Recession Fears, Financial Crisis, Carol Stocker, Being Thankful, Gratitude and Happiness, Gratitude, Thomas Merton, Recession, Happiness, Living News
Roger Fransecky

I would hope that this Thanksgiving we might all pause to do more than say thanks, but instead be the grateful selves that can fuel and inform a new way of being in our lives.

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