Council Policy Manual: Science Policies

There are currently no policies relating to this topic.

• APA resolution on outpatient civil commitment
• Resolution on family caregivers

• Integrating psychological science into major disaster preparedness, response, and recovery and advancing disaster behavioral health training and response for psychologists
• Resolution on affirming psychologists' role in addressing global climate change
• APA response to the global climate change crisis (PDF, 58KB) opens in new window

• APA response to Dianetics
• APA response to the global climate change crisis (PDF, 58KB)opens in new window
• Evidence-based practice in psychology
  
• Facilitated communication
  
• Guidelines for ethical conduct in the care and use of nonhuman animals in research
  
• Resolution on affirming psychologists' role in addressing global climate change
• Resolution rejecting intelligent design as scientific and reaffirming support for evolutionary theory
  
• Support of evolution and opposition to creationism

There are currently no policies relating to this topic.

• Industrial and organizational psychology as a specialty in professional psychology
  
• Principles for the validation and use of personnel selection procedures (PDF, 358KB)opens in new window
  
• Standards for educational and psychological testing

• Principles for the validation and use of personnel selection procedures (PDF, 358KB)opens in new window
• Social practices that induce violence (PDF, 28KB)opens in new window
• Standards for educational and psychological testing

• Principles for the validation and use of personnel selection procedures (PDF, 358KB)opens in new window
• Standards for educational and psychological testing

• Advocacy for psychology as a STEM discipline
• Freedom of scientific inquiry and presentation of research results
• Guidelines for ethical conduct of behavioral projects involving human participants by high school students
  
• Guidelines for the use of nonhuman animals in behavioral projects in schools (K-12) (PDF, 73KB)opens in new window
  
• Guidelines for ethical conduct in the care and use of nonhuman animals in research (PDF, 86KB)opens in new window
• Resolution reaffirming support for research and teaching with nonhuman animals
  
• Support for science education in grades K-12

• Academic boycotts as violations of academic freedom and disruption of scientific exchange
• Advocacy for psychology as a STEM discipline
• APA resolution for the use of the term patient in American Psychological Association policies, rules, and public relations activities when referring to health-related and scientific activities of health service psychologists and scientists in health care services and settings (PDF, 75KB)
  
• APA resolution on support for the expansion of mature minors' ability to participate in research (PDF, 77KB)opens in new window
  
• APA response to the global climate change crisis (PDF, 58KB)opens in new window
• Clinical practice guideline for multicomponent behavioral treatment of obesity and overweight in children and adolescents: Current state of the evidence and research needs (PDF, 892KB)opens in new window
• Evidence-based practice in psychology
  
• Facilitated communication
  
• Free exchange of ideas
  
• Freedom of scientific inquiry and presentation of research results
• Guidelines for Avoiding Sexism in Psychological Research
• Guidelines for ethical conduct in the care and use of nonhuman animals in research
  
• Guidelines for ethical conduct of behavioral projects involving human participants by high school students
• Guidelines for the use of nonhuman animals in behavioral projects in schools (K-12) (PDF, 73KB)opens in new window
  
• Impact of selective reduction of support for "social research"
• Psychologists who are political refugees
• Psychology as an independent science and profession
• Resolution in support of education and implementation of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
  
• Resolution on affirming psychologists' role in addressing global climate change
• Resolution on data about sexual orientation and gender identity
  
• Resolution on promoting global perspectives in U.S. psychology
  
• Resolution on research on sexual behavior
• Resolution on the free and responsible practice of science, freedom of movement of scientists, and APA international engagement
  
• Resolution reaffirming support for research and teaching with nonhuman animals
  
• Resolution rejecting intelligent design as scientific and reaffirming support for evolutionary theory
  
• Resolution on combating misinformation and promoting psychological science literacy
• Support for the free exchange of scientific information
• Support for the rights of psychologists in other countries
• The universality of science

• APA task force report on violent video games (PDF, 284KB)opens in new window
• Artificial intelligence and the field of psychology
• Resolution on the protection of neural and cognitive data (PDF, 45KB)opens in new window
• Resolution on violent video games (PDF, 60KB)opens in new window

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