The General Psychologist
A newsletter of Div. 1
The phrase “advancing psychology” requires considerable unpacking.
Call for submissions
- Psychology and Prefigurative Change
How might psychology contribute to prefiguring emotional, relational and intergroup dynamics that constitute more egalitarian and sustainable social arrangements?
By Jeffery Yen
Review of General Psychology
- RGP 2019: A New Mission and New Co-Editors
The Review of General Psychology focuses on what humans psychologically share and aims at a comprehensive and integrative understanding of mental life.
By Thomas Teo, PhD, and Wade E. Pickren
Awards
- Celebrating the 2018 Div. 1 Award Recipients
Each year, Div. 1 celebrates exemplary integrative scholarship in psychology with a wide array of awards announced during APA’s annual convention.
By Phyllis Wentworth, PhD - Raymond Corsini Student Poster Award: "¿Quién Soy y Adónde Voy?: Spanish, Ethnic Identity and Critical Consciousness"
Understanding factors that are associated with academic achievement and postsecondary education plans can help address the disparities in graduation and postsecondary enrollment among Latinx youth.
By Bryan O. Rojas-Arauz, Darie Combs, Derrick Bines , and Ellen McWhirter - Past President: 2017-2018 Service Commendations Awarded
Past president Deborah F. Johnson, University of Southern Maine, recognized the following individuals for their outstanding service to the division in the previous year.
By Deborah F. Johnson, PhD
A Student Poem
Spotlight
- Member Spotlight: Natasha Otto
A Q&A with Natasha Otto, a developmental psychologist whose area of research focuses on community college students and their levels of persistence.
By Natasha Otto - Member Spotlight: Bridget Rivera
Rivera is a full time faculty member for Purdue Global University's undergraduate psychology department.
- Member-at-Large
Alicia Trotman, PhD, is an assistant professor at Sul Ross State University.
By Alicia M. Trotman, PhD
Invited Column
- Teaching with Primary Sources in All of Your Courses: From the Archives of the History of American Psychology
Archival research is applicable to all instructors of psychology, not just those who teach the history of the field.
By Lizette Royer Barton
Invited Foundational Divisions Column
- APA Div. 2 (Society for the Teaching of Psychology) Resources for Div. 1 Members
Teaching resources and project syllabus.
By Danae L. Hudson and Amy Silvestri Hunter
Publishing 101
- Deciding Where to Publish
This is the first of an on-going new column by past past president Irene Frieze on journal publishing.
By Irene Hanson Frieze, PhD
Council of Representatives
- COR Meeting, August 2018, San Francisco
Summary of the major items from the August 2018 APA Council meeting.
By Mindy J Erchull, PhD
Graduate Student Member Submission
- Is That Really Relevant? The Argument for Ethical Competencies in Religion
When an individual practitioner inadvertently causes harm to a client because of a failure to act ethically or to recognize a potential ethical boundary violation once it occurs, they are not only causing harm to that specific client but to our entire profession.
By Carolyn Cowl-Witherspoon
Member Submission Column
- An Exciting Challenge: Meaningful Retirement
An increasing numbers of psychologists facing or entering retirement are not well prepared for that life shift.
By Patrick H. DeLeon, PhD