Tag: American Psychological Association

Understanding the DSM-5: What every teacher needs to know

Greg Neimeyer, PhD, APA Education Directorate associate executive director for continuing education, reviews changes in the DSM-5 in this lecture. These changes include the elimination of the traditional multiaxial system and the reorganization of numerous disorders previous held under different categories, among others. The DSM-5 is a publication of the American Psychiatric Association. This video was supported by a grant from the American Psychological Foundation, thanks to generous support from Lee Gurel, PhD.

Recognition, prevention and coping strategies for teacher stress

This module, primarily aimed at pre-service teachers and new educators, examines definitions and causes of teacher-related stress and provides strategies for recognizing, preventing and coping with stressful situations, events and triggers as they occur. Learn more at http://www.apa.org/ed/schools/cpse/activities/teacher-stress.aspx.

American Psychological Association: Planetary crisis causing ecoanxiety, PTSD on a mass scale

We’d thought that PTSD was finally being given the respect it deserved; and then a reporter for the New York Daily News claimed that test-firing anAR-15 at a gun rangegave him temporary PTSD, so loud were the explosions.

It turns out many more of us millions, perhaps have undiagnosed and untreated PTSD and don’t even know it, according to a new report put together by the nonprofit ecoAmerica, Climate for Health, and the American Psychological Association.

Read more: http://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2017/04/03/american-psychological-association-planetary-crisis-causing-ecoanxiety-ptsd-on-a-mass-scale/