What's New Archive

Items that are posted under What's New on the home page are archived here when they are replaced by new features. They are listed according to the date they were first posted to the site.

June 2006

• Video Game Recommendations from Dr. Craig A. Anderson
• NEW! ACT Parent Handbook

June 2005

• Plan to attend the 2005 American Psychological Association Annual Convention

May 2005

• Steps to Respect program reduces playground bullying, according to new research
• ACT in the Communities: April/May Highlights
• Plan to attend the 2005 American Psychological Association Annual Convention

April 2005

• ACT: Five years of making a difference (Monitor on Psychology)
• Resilience in military children (Monitor on Psychology)

March 2005

• Media in the lives of 8-18 year-olds: The Kaiser Family Foundation survey
• Psychology Matters in violence prevention efforts

February 2005

• 10th International Conference on Family Violence: Call for Submissions and other conference details
• Get ready for NAEYC's Week of the Young Child, April 3-9, 2005

January 2005

• Constant yelling can be just as harmful to children as physical abuse.
• Imaginary friends last into the school-age years.
• Mental health help for children.
• Children's lower test scores linked to secondhand smoke.

December 2004

• Act in the Communities - December/January.
• Family circumstances, not children's misbehavior, spur abuse, according to new study.
• Mental health help for children.
• Call for submissions: Third Annual Violence in the World of Our Youth Conference.

November 2004

• Act in the Communities - November 2004.
• New ACT promotional flyer (PDF).
• Turning research on school bullying into real-world solutions.

October 2004

• Act in the Communities - October 2004.
• Why is it so difficult to stop the cycle of violence? (APA press release).
• Study: Links between sex-typed time use in middle childhood and gender development in early adolescence (PDF).
• New APA Children's Book:
  Blue Cheese Breath and Stinky Feet: How to Deal with Bullies.

September 2004

• NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo to take place in Anaheim, California.
• Lower family stress tied to improved child behavior (APA Monitor article).
• New APA book: Children's Peer Relations: From Development to Intervention.
• Lawmakers try to keep violent video games from kids.

August 2004

• 9th International Conference on Family Violence to be held September 19-22, 2004 in San Diego.
• Violence in the media - psychologists help protect children from harmful effects.
• Current online sex abuse prevention efforts may be missing their mark, according to new research.

July 2004

• Families' financial woes can foster child depression and disobedience (APA Monitor article).
• APA offers materials that can help children deal with disturbing images from Iraq.
• New edition released of "A Practical Guide for Crisis Response in Our Schools."

June 2004

• APA 2004 Convention CE Workshop.
• APA Congressional Testimony on Media Violence and Children.
• Protecting Children from Advertising (Monitor article).
• Among Young Teens, Aggression Equals Popularity (Monitor article).

May 2004

• Good news following evaluation of the ACT Training Program.
• NAEYC National Institute for Early Chilhood Professional Development Conference, June 20-23, 2004.
• National Conference on Children and the Law, June 3-5, 2004.