Inside an Online Charter School: Labeling Kids “Disabled” for Profit
Iād thought this teaching job would be my chance to make positive changes in childrenās lives. But most of the recommendations in students' IEPs were related not to reading, writing, and ārithmetic but to behavior control and obedience to adults. And the school seemed to be working very hard to prove that the kids were disabled and to get them certified as such.
Kick Big Pharma Out of the Classroom
School-based strategies such as the ātalk to your doctorā campaign about any childhood problem have been extremely effective in helping the pharmaceutical industry to marginalize traditional child-rearing practices and replace them with advice from mental health āexpertsā and the use of dangerous drugs. These campaigns are reminiscent of now-illegal vintage tobacco ads in which doctors endorsed cigarette smoking.
The Conflicts That Result From Globalizing Euro-American Psychology in India
Researchers examine the transformation of work, life, and identity in India as a result of Western corporate and psychological culture.
School Personnel Can Help Prevent Mental Health Issues in Children
A new study examines the preventative effects of school-based mental health care when delivered by school personnel.
DACA has āImmediate and Positiveā Impact on Lives of Immigrant Students, Study Finds
New research demonstrates the benefits and complexities for immigrants transitioning from undocumented to DACA status.
International Study Documents Widespread Distress in College Students
An international study of college students reveals ubiquitous social and emotional challenges faced by young adults.
What Does Social Justice Really Mean for Psychologists?
Without clarity and consensus around what social justice means, psychologists risk perpetuating injustices that undermine their stated mission.
A Text Therapy App Plans to Start Prescribing Drugs to Users
FromĀ Business Insider: Talkspace, a text message-based therapy platform, is bringing on a team of psychiatrists to prescribe medications to patients. The app is also...
A Mental Health Crisis is the True Cost of University Marketization
FromĀ Red Pepper:Ā University students are facing unprecedented rates of mental health crises due to a combination of financial insecurity and ever-increasing academic pressure.
"Meanwhile, our futures...
How Babies Learn ā And Why Robots Can’t Compete
In this piece forĀ The Guardian, Alex Beard comparesĀ robot learning to language acquisition and development in children. While robot learning is abstract and formulaic, learning...
Academe Should Accommodate Those With Mental Health Issues
In this piece forĀ The Chronicle of Higher Education, Patrick Flynn describes how universities can lead the way in providing an accommodating, inclusive environment for...
No Guns in Schools
The Society for Humanistic Psychology has released a statement by psychology faculty and students from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in opposition to the notion...
The Other Mrs. Smith Will Shock and Move You
FromĀ The Vancouver Sun: Bonnie Burstow's recently released bookĀ The Other Mrs. Smith is not only an accurate portrayal of the horrific consequences of ECT but...
We Need to Broaden the Philosophical Landscape of Social Work
In this piece forĀ Community Care, Anjum Shah argues that social work academics need to pay more attention to the work of the philosopher Frantz...
The Frantz Fanon’s Foundation 2nd Rencontres
From theĀ Blog of the APA: This past December, the Frantz Fanon Foundation celebrated its 10th anniversary in the "2nd Rencontres" of the Foundation. The...
Video: Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault
FromĀ Verso:Ā A televised 1965 discussion between Alain Badiou and Michel Foucault, under the heading "Philosophy and Psychology," is available to stream in three parts.
VideosĀ āĀ
Histories of Violence: Neurodiversity and the Policing of the Norm
In this interview for theĀ Los Angeles Review of Books,Ā cultural theorist and philosopher Erin Manning discusses neurodiversity, a movement that seeks toĀ depathologize traits, experiences, and...
Writing Women Into Psychology
FromĀ Psychology Today: A recent study examining a sample of widely used social psychology textbooks found that the contributions of women and people of color...
Students With Mental Health Conditions Find Support at BU
FromĀ STAT: For the past three years, Boston University has offered one of the few programs in the nation dedicated to teaching students who have...
‘Father of Black Psychology’ Joseph L. White Dies at 84
FromĀ Times Union: Joseph L. White, a psychologist, social activist, and teacher who helped pioneerĀ the field of black psychology, has died at age 84.
"In the...
When the Mad Research the Mad
In this piece forĀ Asylum Magazine, Sue Phillips, Penny Stafford, and Shirley Anne Collie discuss their involvement in a participatory action research project evaluating the...
Misconceptions About Brain Science Very Common, Study Finds
Researchers investigate commonly held misconceptions about brain research among Americans.
Science is Broken
In this piece forĀ Aeon,Ā Siddhartha Roy and Marc A. Edwards explore how increasingly perverse incentives and the academic business model are affecting scientific practices and...
“No More, We Have a Counselor…Let’s Get Real”
In this piece forĀ Medium, Karen Kilbane critiques the way the foundational theories of psychology ingrain children and adolescents with self-doubt and self-criticism.
"Our psychological theories...
How Culpable Are Educators and Psychologists in Youth Suicide?
In this pieceĀ forĀ Medium, Karen Kilbane discusses the ways that contemporary psychological theories, diagnoses, and behavior modification programs are harming the mental health and emotional...
