From the Editor: E-mail Related Disorders: Compulsive Checking, Responding, and Hoarding

  V. Krishna Kumar, PhD Kkumar@wcupa.edu E-mail, a truly great invention, is increasingly replacing paper mail for most purposes.  We regularly receive e-mails in more than one e-mail account from banks, various doctors’ clinics, automobile dealers (a price you pay for bargain shopping), automobile associations, travel agencies, hotels where you stayed, retailers, newsletters, newspapers, periodicals,…

Enough is Enough: Time for Culture Change

June Wilson, RN, PhD Media Health Connections junewilsonphd@gmail.com A Review of India’s Daughter Director: Leslee Udwin On December 16, 2012, in New Delhi, India, 23-year old Jyoti Singh, a medical student, had just finished her final exams.  She had only 6 months of internship left. “Happiness was just a few steps away,” her father, Badri…

Psychological Impact of News Coverage Related to Terrorism: Implications for Pakistan

Erum Hafeez, PhD Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan erum.hafeez@iobm.edu.pk Considering Pakistan’s strategic position as a leading ally in the “War Against Terrorism” the country has been subjected to frequent terrorist attacks and suicide bombings for over a decade.  An increase in the intensity of these attacks since September 11, 2011 has caused millions of…

President-Elect Column: Tikkun Olam: Repairing the World Daily

Mary Gregerson, PhD mary.gregerson@aol.com In ancient Judaism tikkun olam meant repairing the world every day.  In this column, I describe three APA Division 46 2016 initiatives to make our world better daily in many ways: (a) The Media First Responder Corps, (b) Environmental Health Psychology, and (c) Entertainment Psychology. Media First Response follows the modern…

Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology

The University of Central Florida Department of Psychology (College of Sciences) seeks applicants for two Assistant Professor level tenure-track positions in clinical psychology and technology to begin in Fall 2016.  The appointment will be in the doctoral program in clinical psychology, but faculty also will be part of the initiation of a new, multidisciplinary translational…

Index of Articles Published in Psychology of Popular Media Culture

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/ppm July 2015, 4(3) Editors’ introduction. There is broad consensus: Media researchers agree that violent media increase aggression in children, and pediatricians and parents concur. Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015). Manufacturing consensus in a diverse field of scholarly opinions: A comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015). Agreement…

A Tale of Two Metas: The Video Game Controversy Continues

Chris Ferguson, PhD Stetson University cjfergus@stetson.edu The early Fall saw the release of two meta-analyses, one mine (Ferguson, 2015a), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science; the other was the final report by the controversial APA task force on video games (APA, 2015).  True to form for the video game debates to date, the two metas…

Past President’s Column: A 12-Step Program for Building a Successful Consulting Practice

Bernard Luskin, EdD, LMFT Bernie@LuskinInternational.com I have operated a visible successful consulting company for over 25 years.  Interestingly, during these years, I needed to attend to the development of my company and my clients only intermittently because many of the consulting jobs became totally consuming; they literally occupied me for years and because my clientele…

From the Associate Editor: Leaving Underserved Teens Behind

Kathryn Stamoulis, PhD kestamoulis@hotmail.com The US Preventive Services Task Force (2015) strongly recommended that adolescents, ages 12 to 18, should be screened for depression.  One of their recommended screening tools, The Beck Depression Inventory, could easily be taken online or at a pediatric appointment to quickly identify at-risk teens. This is a significant recommendation as…

Getting Started in Mental Health App Development

Alicia Brown, MA Regent University alicpav@mail.regent.edu Glen Moriarty, PsyD Regent University glenmor@regent.edu Jim Sells, PhD Regent University jsells@regent.edu Becoming involved in mental health app development may seem risky given its potential to tap into such valuable resources as time and money.  This guide is based on interviews conducted with individuals experienced in mental health app…

APA Council of Representatives Report: August 2015 Meeting

Elizabeth Carll, PhD ecarll@optonline.net It should be noted that prior to the APA Council meeting, there was much discussion and exchange of emails among Council members as well as heated discussion among APA members on various listservs as a result of the Hoffman Report being obtained and published by the media.  Council members were responsible…

The Power of Social Media and Videoconferencing for Training and Dissemination in Armenia

Mary Karapetian Alvord, PhD Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC MAlvord@ALVORDBAKER.COM Many US institutions of higher learning use social media and technology for such diverse purposes as branding their schools, interacting with their students, alumni, community, and faculty, and promoting programs and events. Small isolated countries with limited economic resources must strive to harness or mobilize…