American Psychological Association - APA
Organization URL(s)
public.affairs@apa.orgwww.apa.org
Other Contact Information
750 First Street, NE
Washington,
DC 20002-4242
800-374-2721 (Voice - Toll-free)
202-336-5500 (Voice)
202-336-6123 (TDD, TTY)
Description
The American Psychological Association (APA) was founded in 1892 as a professional organization for psychologists. It exists to advance psychology as a science, as a profession, and as a means of promoting human welfare. The APA promotes research, establishes professional standards, maintains a personnel placement service, conducts meetings, holds an annual convention, and provides information to members, the media, students, and the public. Information services include the publication of 18 journals, an abstracting and indexing service, and responding to mail and telephone requests for information. DATABASE: the PsycINFO and PSYCHLIT database abstracts and indexes psychological literature published since 1967. It is the online version of Psychological Abstracts. Sources indexed by this database include books, periodicals, technical reports, and instructional media such as films and audiotape recordings. The information can be accessed using one of several commercial database vendors, by leasing computer disks, or by requesting a search from the Association's PASAR service. Each year, records from over 1,000 periodicals and 1,500 books and monographs are added. The Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms has been developed to aid in indexing and retrieving information, and is available for purchase from APA.
Online Resources
- American Psychological Association's Help Center
http://helping.apa.org - Answers to your Questions About Sexual Orientation and Homosexuality
http://www.apa.org/topics/orientation.html - Find a Psychologist
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/locator/ - Painful Shyness in Children and Adults
http://www.apahelpcenter.org/featuredtopics/feature.php?id=5
Print Resources
APA publishes scholarly psychology journals, a newspaper, employment listings, membership directories, tapes and transcripts of lectures, psychological abstract journals, and books and pamphlets on the psychology profession. Serial publications: American Psychologist, monthly; APA Monitor (newspaper), monthly; Behavioral Neuroscience, bimonthly; Contemporary Psychology, monthly; Developmental Psychology, bimonthly; Journal of Abnormal Psychology, bimonthly; Journal of Applied Psychology, quarterly; Journal of Comparative Psychology, quarterly; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, bimonthly; Journal of Counseling Psychology, quarterly; Journal of Educational Psychology, bimonthly; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, quarterly; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, bimonthly; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, bimonthly; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, quarterly; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, monthly; Professional Psychology, bimonthly; Psychological Abstracts, monthly; Psychological Bulletin, bimonthly; Psychological Review, bimonthly; PsycSCAN: Clinical Psychology (abstract journal), quarterly; PsycSCAN: Developmental Psychology (abstract journal), quarterly; PsycSCAN: Applied Psychology, quarterly; PsycSCAN: LD/MR (learning disabilities and mental retardation (magazine), quarterly.