Achieving Optimal Performance With Attention and Awareness

Achieving Optimal Performance With Attention and Awareness

Athletes—and the rest of humankind—can get tangled up in thoughts and emotions that can disrupt and undermine optimal performance and other behaviors. “Thoughts and feelings are not the currency of performance,” explained... Read more »
John Famechon and Complex Brian-Based Multi-Movement Therapy

John Famechon and Complex Brian-Based Multi-Movement Therapy

Diffusion tensor imaging tractography of severe brain injury Source: Brian L. Edlow John Famechon was the former featherweight boxing champion of the world. He won the title in London in 1969. John... Read more »
APA Joins Forces with the CDC Tips From Former Smokers® Campaign to Reduce Smoking Disparities – Psychology Benefits Society

APA Joins Forces with the CDC Tips From Former Smokers® Campaign to Reduce Smoking Disparities – Psychology Benefits Society

By Corinne Graffunder, PhD, (Director of the Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)   The Centers for Disease... Read more »
Predictive Validity

Predictive Validity

Predictive validity is a subtype of criterion-related validity that refers to the degree to which scores from a psychological instrument can predict a criterion measured in the future. Predictive validity is evaluated... Read more »
Enhancing Mindfulness with Character Strengths – Positive Psychology News

Enhancing Mindfulness with Character Strengths – Positive Psychology News

Sherri Fisher, MAPP ’06, M.Ed., Director of Learn and Flourish LLC, is a coach, best-selling author, workshop facilitator, and speaker. She works internationally with smart people of all ages who... Read more »
Personalized AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning

Personalized AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning

Cobotics Source: Google Images Public Domain Cobotics Source: Google Images Public Domain Cobotics Source: Google Images Public Domain There is general agreement among educators at all levels that AI in education and... Read more »
Why Sexualized Halloween Costumes Are Scarier Than You Think – Psychology Benefits Society

Why Sexualized Halloween Costumes Are Scarier Than You Think – Psychology Benefits Society

By Isabelle Orozco (APA Women’s Programs Office) Every year many children and adults creatively plan out their costumes for the one night where spooky wins. And even though for the most part... Read more »
Predictive Validity

Toxic Striving

Clinical psychologist Paula Freedman-Diamond defines toxic striving as a relentless and inflexible pursuit of perfection, societal ideals, and external validation that comes at the expense of one’s well-being. This constant pressure to... Read more »
Enhancing Mindfulness with Character Strengths – Positive Psychology News

MAPP Magazine – Positive Psychology News

Abimbola (Abi) Tschetter (MAPP ’22) is a business writer, editor, and marketing consultant based north of Seattle on Whidbey Island. She is an assistant instructor in the University of Pennsylvania Master... Read more »
Zoom Psychotherapy Is Good, In-Person Is Better

Zoom Psychotherapy Is Good, In-Person Is Better

COVID-19 introduced Zoom online technology to the world of psychotherapy. At a time when we were all suddenly isolated in our individual space capsules, this technological wonder prevented the disruption of therapeutic... Read more »
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