As if the psychological health and well-being of the American public wasn’t already impacted enough by the COVID-19 pandemic, the June murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis set off a simmering pile of racial and social justice issues. Probably primed by extended periods of isolation and growing unemployment, the unrest burst into open protest in…
Read more6 Ways Psychology Professionals Can Protect Themselves and Their Patients When Social Distancing Restrictions Are Finally Relaxed

There has been a lot of buzz in psychology circles about the sudden shift that the field has made to offer services remotely. COVID-19 and the strict social distancing requirements that followed might have been what kickstarted the trend, but there’s good reason to believe that telehealth will be a very normal way to provide…
Read moreScience Shows That Being Trapped with Your Kids in Quarantine Really Can Lead to a Mental Breakdown

Some psychologists trying to stay productive while isolating at home have been preparing for the big wave of COVID-19-related mental health issues by combing through the research on past pandemics to get an idea of what types of issues to expect. This has led many of us in the field to unearth a body of…
Read moreCan Instagram Be a Viable Platform for Providing Therapy Under COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders?

Like a lot of other work that used to be conducted primarily in person, counseling and therapy services have been abruptly shifting to an online-only format – all while trying to figure out where we fall on the essential services totem and interpret the mixed bag of stay-at-home orders handed down from state and local…
Read moreIn the Years Ahead, Addressing the Long-Term Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak Will Fall to Today’s Psychology Students

With sirens constantly sounding through the streets of the major cities of the world, and bodies piling up in temporary morgues set up in freezer trucks outside hospitals, the physical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are gripping the attention of the world right now. With the worst yet to come, that focus isn’t going to…
Read moreYour Guide to Transitioning to Online-Only Psychology Courses:

The Six Things You Can’t Live Without When COVID-19 Forces Your Psychology Program to Go Online With all the chaos that COVID-19 is unleashing on the world, the plight of college students in traditional psychology programs who suddenly find themselves going exclusively online isn’t something that’s exactly grabbing headlines. Still, we get it— the waves…
Read moreTop 10 Drinks that Will Help You Forget the COVID-19 Outbreak Just Turned You Into a Home School Teacher

By Scott Wilson The reality of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic is starting to set in for everyone. For grocery store staff it means hordes of toilet paper scavengers ravaging the shelves from dawn until closing. For first responders, doctors, and nurses, it means dealing with the horrific life and death choices of critically ill patients…
Read moreHome School Bootcamp: 5 Easy Steps to Take to Avoid Killing Your Kids Before COVID-19 Does

By Scott Wilson Let’s be honest; if you are the average parent, you probably wanted to kill your kids four or five times a day even before you were stuck inside with them 24/7 for what is starting to look like will be… a very long time. This isn’t going to be like the world’s…
Read moreWhy Working from Home During the COVID-19 Outbreak Is No Vacation: Top 5 Issues… and Workable Solutions

By Scott Wilson It didn’t take long for the memes to hit the web as companies started complying with mandatory quarantine policies by shifting all employees who could do their jobs remotely to work-from-home status: a stream of posts about “new coworkers” that feature pet photos… the obligatory no-pants teleconferencing selfies… tweets about the joys…
Read moreHow We Picked The Top Undergraduate Programs in Sports Psychology
Every sports psychology program is unique. That can make identifying the best a challenge—when there is no broad industry agreement on educational models for sports psych, who gets to make the call about which is best? Our approach is to use good old-fashioned human judgement and a rational evaluation process that returns to the fundamentals:…
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