Council Policy Manual:
Legal Issues Policies
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Advocacy
- Discrimination against homosexuals
- Resolution on appropriate affirmative responses to sexual orientation distress and change efforts
- Resolution on the 2015 White House Conference on Aging
- Statement of principles on academic freedom and tenure of the American Association of University of Professors (from 1960)
Capital Punishment
Child Custody
Defendants/Detainees Rights
Families/Marriage
- Child and adolescent mental and behavioral health resolution
- Child custody determination
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Guidelines for the practice of parenting coordination
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Resolution on families of incarcerated offenders
- Resolution on physical discipline of children by parents (PDF, 82KB)opens in new window
- Resolution on promotion of healthy active lifestyles and prevention of obesity and unhealthy weight control behaviors in children and youth
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Resolution on sexual orientation, gender identity (SOGI), parents and their children (PDF, 99KB)
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Hate Crimes
Law Enforcement/Crimes
- Death penalty in the United States
- Mandatory minimum drug sentencing regulations
- Mentally Impaired Offenders
- Proficiency in professional psychology: Police psychology Resolution on firearm violence research and prevention
- Resolution on interrogations of criminal suspects
- Specialty in professional psychology: police and public safety psychology
- Use of polygraph testing
Laws/Legislation
- Hate crimes
- Mandatory minimum drug sentencing regulations
- Resolution on opposing discriminatory laws, policies, and practices aimed at LGBTQ+ persons (PDF, 127KB)opens in new window
- Resolution on Protecting Psychological Test Security, Test Validity, and Public Safety
- Sexual orientation and marriage
Interrogations
- Resolution on interrogations of criminal suspects
- Resolution against torture and other cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment (PDF, 167KB)opens in new window
- Psychologists and unlawful detention settings with a focus on national security
- Resolution on interrogations of criminal suspects
- Resolution to amend the 2006 and 2013 council resolutions to clarify the roles of psychologists related to interrogation and detainee welfare in national security settings, to further implement the 2008 petition resolution, and to safeguard against acts of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment in all settings (PDF, 263KB)opens in new window
- Use of polygraph testing
Date created: 2019