Sentences with phrase «psychological association task»

Many therapeutic regimens for treating depression, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) have earned the imprimatur of an American Psychological Association task force charged with identifying «empirically supported» treatments.

«Perceptions of the implications of lots of snow for the existence of climate change are like the results from a Rorschach test,» writes Janet Swim, a psychologist at Penn State who headed up an American Psychological Association task force report on psychology and climate change.

In 2008, an American Psychological Association task force released a literature review on zero tolerance, concluding that not only do such practices fail to make schools safer or improve student behavior, but they also actually increase the likelihood that students will act out in the future.

A review of the scientific literature by an American Psychological Association task force concluded that sexual orientation change efforts are unlikely to succeed and indeed can be harmful.»

Not exact matches

Open - plan offices are supposed to make teams more productive, but «Plenty of research has shown that distractions cause people to take longer to complete a task,» according to the Association for Psychological Science.

According to the American Psychological Association, multitasking and constantly switching between tasks will actually take away from focus because you're not allowing yourself time to adjust to one thing.

In 2006 the American Psychological Association (APA) assembled a task force of researchers with wide - ranging expertise to evaluate all peer - reviewed studies published in English since 1989 (when the last such review was conducted) that compared the mental health of women who had an abortion with that of other women.

According to the American Psychological Association: «As skills become more automatic, the child does not have to think as hard about what he or she is learning or doing, and brain resources are freed up to be used for complex tasks that require more and more attention and processing.»

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

I notice, for example, that the American Psychological Association has set up a task force on climate change.