APA’s 2026 Work in America survey finds rising workplace stress and economic uncertainty are harming employee mental health, while investing in psychological capital can boost resilience, well-being, ...

Lining up suspects in front of a one-way mirror and allowing eyewitnesses to choose which one is the perpetrator is standard police procedure. Yet DNA evidence has repeatedly revealed the limitations ...

Forty-one percent of teens with the highest social media use rate their overall mental health as poor or very poor.

People with alcohol use disorders drink to excess, endangering both themselves and others. This question-and-answer fact sheet explains alcohol problems and how psychologists can help people recover.

AI is developing at a pace that few of us fully anticipated. It is reshaping how we work, how we learn, how we relate to one another, and how we make decisions that affect millions of lives. And yet, ...

As the principal publication of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (AJO) reflects the Alliance’s goal of informing policy, practice, ...

The way we perceive ourselves in relation to the rest of the world influences our behaviors and our beliefs. The opinions of others also affect our behavior and how we view ourselves. Social ...

Evidence-based practice is the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture and preferences. The APA Council of Representatives ...

Assessment Method Fact Sheetsopens in new window (PDF, 256KB) Toolkit Assessment Measures, Foundational and Functional Competenciesopens in new window (PDF, 238KB) Usefulness Ratings of Toolkit ...

If you or a family member has been referred for psychological testing, you probably have some questions about what to expect. Or you may have heard about psychological testing and wonder if you or a ...

Cognitive psychologists, sometimes called brain scientists, study how the human brain works — how we think, remember and learn. They apply psychological science to understand how we perceive events ...

No one enters into a marriage expecting it to fail. Still, more than 20 percent of first marriages end in divorce within five years, and 48 percent of marriages dissolve by the 20-year mark, according ...