Articles for PracticeUpdate newsletters reside in categories based on their subject matter, with the email newsletter published twice monthly.
Here are links to articles from 2018 to the present, sorted by the date of the original email newsletter publication.
2022
November 18
- Engaging in data informed, patient-centered care
- Practitioner survey: Psychologists are struggling to meet demand
- How psychologists are helping veterans tackle their unique struggles
- What psychologists should know about 988
- APA elects Texas psychologist de las Fuentes president
- Updates for Clinicians: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dementia and Age-Related Cognitive Change
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 1 p.m. Eastern time
1.5 CE Credits
November 4
- Why the benefits of annual anxiety and depression screenings for kids and teens outweigh the risks
- Telehealth is here to stay. Psychologists should equip themselves to offer it
- CMS expected to finalize proposals to help psychologists meet the demand
- Why mental health needs to be a top priority in the workplace
- Relationship advice from couple psychologist Anthony Chambers, PhD
- Call for nominations: Advisory Committee for Measurement-based Care and the Mental and Behavioral Health Registry
Deadline for nominations is December 9, 2022. - The Far-Reaching Impact of Publicly Writing About Clients: A Clinical and Ethical Interactive Analysis
Friday, November 11, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
3 CE credits
October 21
- No Surprises Act: CMS looks for input on good faith estimate requirements
- APA advocates for psychologists working to help patients stop smoking
- Psychologists invited to participate in data gathering on maternal mental health needs
- Preventative Services task force recommends screening children for anxiety and depression:
- Screening for anxiety in children and adolescents
- Screening for depression and suicide risk in children and adolescents
- Helping your patients overcome vaccine hesitancy
- Celebrities read new APA book for LGBTQ+ History Month
- Sponsored Webinar: Opioid Addiction as an Attachment Disorder, Part II
Friday, November 4, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
October 7
- What psychologists need to know about 988
- Webinar: Coordinating a Stronger 988 Crisis Response
Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time - Routine anxiety screenings for adults can get people vital help earlier, APA CEO says
- Anxiety among kids is on the rise. Wider access to CBT may provide needed solutions
- Helping your patients overcome vaccine hesitancy
- Free ebook: Career Transitions: Taking a New Path
September 23
- No Surprises Act: CMS looks for input on good faith estimate requirements
- Automate your HIPAA compliance with APA’s preferred provider for HIPAA compliance solutions
- Free program: Disinformation, midterms, and the mind: How psychological science can help journalists combat election misinformation
Thursday, September 29, 2022, 11:30 a.m., Eastern time - CE webinar: Guidelines for assessment and intervention with persons with disabilities: Basic clinical applications
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 3 p.m., Eastern time
1.5 CE credits - Sponsored webinar: When an attorney calls
Friday, October 14, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
September 9
- How to report smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling visits
- Considerations for individuals seeking reproductive health care
August 19
- Mental health crisis: CMS issues proposals to help psychologists meet the demand
- APA Services, Inc. issues “cease and desist” letter to CareDash for using shadow profiles (PDF, 1MB)
- APA adopts racial equity action plan
- When therapy comes to an end
- Advocating for federal policy to address the impact of climate change on mental health and health equity
July 22
- Improving sleep via technology
- Frequently asked questions about abortion laws and psychology practice
- APA 2022: Convention highlights for practitioners
- CMS releases proposal on provider reimbursement rates for 2023
July 8
- Audio-only telehealth: How to maintain privacy and security
- Delivering bad news: How to help both messengers and patients
- Enroll now for APA 2022 CE workshops
- Protect practice: SPTA leaders can apply for grants to support advocacy
- On-demand CE series: Building and Sustaining a Thriving Private Practice: When to Call in Outside Help
June 17
- Let’s Get Technical: Wellness apps designed for people of color
- Letter to Congress: Pass legislation to promote gun safety
- How to assess and intervene with patients at risk of suicide
- Psychology reimbursement changes to expect in 2023
- Sponsored free webinar: Opioid addiction as an attachment disorder
Friday, June 24, 2022, 1 p.m. Eastern time
June 3
- Psychology services and reimbursement: What changes to expect in 2023
- Psychologist hotline: Phone consultations for pediatricians
- Advocating for investments in youth mental health and suicide prevention
- Join APA at the inaugural (virtual) conference of the Society for Digital Mental Health
- APA’s private practice helpline
- Continuing education: Beyond psychometrics: Interpreting psychological assessment data within culture and context
Friday, June 17, 2022, 1 p.m. Eastern time
3 CE credits
May 20
- Reimagining mental health for communities of color
- APA’s president reacts to the mass shooting in Buffalo
- APA 2022 Early Bird CE Workshop enrollment is now open
- How to provide an estimate of costs for your services
- Podcast: Speaking of Psychology: Surviving the trauma of war in Ukraine
- Webinar: Psychologists Against Ageism: Promoting Productive Narratives and Inclusivity about Aging
Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time - Webinar: Supporting Clinicians and Family Members Who Care for Suicidal Patients
Friday, June 10, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
May 6
- Flexible telehealth policies temporarily extended after the public health emergency
- Restricting access to abortion likely to lead to mental health harms, APA asserts
- Supporting parents via Instagram
- Supporting and recommending changes to Department of Veterans Affairs disability ratings for mental disorders
- Webinar: Powerful Engagement Strategies for the Virtual World
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
1 CE credit
$30 APA members | $45 Nonmembers
April 22
- Policy challenges and opportunities for digital therapeutics in the mental health and substance use crisis
- Practitioners in action
- Effective April 12, 2022, HHS extends COVID-19 national public health emergency declaration through mid-July
- Psychological Safety: Strategies for Cultivating Inclusivity
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
1 CE credit
$30 APA members | $45 Nonmembers
April 8
- Get ready to celebrate Psychology Week
- Single-session interventions: More growth for patients in less time
- APA takes action after federal appeals court overturns groundbreaking Wit decision
- Webinar: Successful Use of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for Neuropsychologists
Thursday, April 14, 2022, 12–1 p.m., Eastern time
1 CE credit
March 25
- Navigating thorny topics in therapy
- Decision aids for Clinical Practice Guidelines now available
- PTSD in Adults (PDF, 59KB)
- Obesity and Overweight in Children and Adolescents (PDF, 53KB)
- Depression in Children/Adolescents (PDF, 59KB)
- Depression in Adults (PDF, 58KB)
- Depression in Older Adults (PDF, 58KB)
- Webinar: Digital Therapeutics in the Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis
Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 2–3 p.m., Eastern time - CE: Leadership that Endures: Embedding Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging in Your Organization
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 1 p.m., Eastern time
$30 APA members | $45 Nonmembers
CE Credits: 1
March 11
- How to bill for brief substance and alcohol abuse services
- Measuring quality and increasing MIPS reimbursement in 2022
- Research roundup: Practitioners in action
- Webinar: Improving the evaluation, management, and treatment of suicidal patients: Turning a good intervention into an excellent one
Friday, March 18, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
3 CE credits
February 25
- The No Surprises Act: Updates on how to provide good faith estimates to your patients
- Let’s Get Technical: Apps for couples
- Webinar: Psychology and LGBT+ State Legislative Advocacy 2022
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 3:30–5 p.m., Eastern time
February 11
- Medicare Advantage plans: What psychologists need to know
- Basic steps for starting your good faith estimate compliance
- Psychologist needed for clinical practice guideline development
- Self-care: Four questions for Laura Boxley
- Webinar: Student Loan Forgiveness Programs: Success Stories and Advocacy
Thursday, March 3, 2022, 3 p.m., Eastern time
January 28
- 2022 guidelines for reporting interactive complexity
- Understanding the No Surprises Act: How to provide estimates for your services
- Decision aids for Clinical Practice Guidelines now available
- PTSD in Adults (PDF, 59KB)
- Obesity and Overweight in Children and Adolescents (PDF, 54KB)
- Depression in Children and Adolescents (PDF, 59KB)
- Depression in Adults (PDF, 59KB)
- Depression in Older Adults (PDF, 59KB)
- 2022 trends report: Mental health, meet venture capital
- Webinar: The ethical lives of clients: Our role as therapists
Wednesday, February 9, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
January 14
- Understanding the No Surprises Act: How to provide estimates for your services
- Basic steps for starting your good faith estimate compliance
- FAQs on the No Surprises Act and good faith estimates
- 14 emerging trends in psychology for 2022
- Share your expertise on operational psychology and PTSD
Proposed Professional Practice Guidelines for Operational Psychology
Proposed Guidelines for the Treatment of Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorders in Adults - Webinar–Beyond Self-Care: Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress as a Professional Skill-Set for Trauma-Informed Professionals and Organizations
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 1 p.m., Eastern time
Previous issues
2021
December 10
- Telehealth practice in 2022: CMS expands coverage and access
- New billing disclosure requirements take effect in 2022
- Let’s Get Technical: Is there a better telehealth platform for your practice?
- APA 2022 Continuing education workshop call for proposals
Submission deadline: Monday, January 10, 2022 - Webinar: Encouraging Trust in Community Conversations About Vaccines: Strategies and Steps
Thursday, January 20, 2022, 1:00 p.m., Eastern Time
November 19
- Let’s Get Technical: Is there a better telehealth platform for your practice?
- In case you missed it: Telehealth services: Billing changes coming in 2022
- FAQs on APA’s racism apology
- Effective therapy with Black women
- Now open: APA 2022 call for proposals
- Webinar: The Origins of Parental Vaccine Decision-Making and What Clinicians Can Do
National Register: November 29, 2021, 2–3 p.m., Eastern Time
November 5
- APA apologizes for longstanding contributions to systemic racism
- Telehealth Services: Billing changes coming in 2022
- Now open: APA 2022 call for proposals
- APA partners with the FDA to bring psychology expertise to digital health technology development and policy
- Share your feedback on the framework for developing APA's next clinical practice guideline
October 22
- Research roundup: Treating suicidality through technology
- Psychology’s diversity problem
- Share your feedback on a framework for developing the next clinical practice guideline
- HHS extends COVID-19 national public health emergency declaration an additional 90 days
- Webinar: Grow your practice with social media
Friday, November 12, 2021, 1–2 p.m., Eastern Time
October 7
- New APA partnership with the FDA brings psychology expertise to digital health technology development and policy
- Protect your practice from scams targeting psychologists
- Helping your patients overcome vaccine hesitancy
- Don’t lose your APA 2021 CE Session credits!
- Professional Development Training Institute on Health Disparities
- Webinar: The Evolution of Cognitive Testing: Finally Connecting the Brain with Behavior
Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 1–2 p.m., Eastern Time
September 24
- Helping your patients overcome vaccine hesitancy
- Treating anxiety and stress in front-line workers: A step-by-step CBT guide
- Clinical Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Obesity and Overweight in Children and Adolescents
- APA 2021: On demand available now
September 10
- CMS proposes changes to telehealth practice in 2022
- Time is running out: Weigh in now on reimbursement and telehealth changes
- Let’s Get Technical: Peer reviews of the latest apps and tools for practice
- CE Corner: Effective treatment for Black men
- APA Convention: Unlimited access to thousands of presentations
August 20
- Telehealth after the pandemic: CMS outlines proposed changes
- Let’s Get Technical: Can a chatbot provide additional support for your patients?
- Employer Identification Numbers: Why psychologists should apply for one
- Catch what you missed from APA 2021
- Webinar: The impact of the proposed Medicare Physician Fee schedule rule on early career psychologists
Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 12 p.m., Eastern Time - Webinar: Healing Racial Trauma for BIPOC Practitioners, Students, and Trainees
Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 12 p.m., Eastern Time
July 30
- HHS extends the COVID-19 national public health emergency declaration
- Psypact: 26 states have now passed laws allowing interstate practice
- Clinical psychologists will learn from APA 2021
- CMS proposes expanding telehealth, more policy changes that will impact psychologists and their patients
July 16
- CMS proposes expanding telehealth, more policy changes that will impact psychologists and their patients
- Responding to insurance audits of patient records when you are out-of-network
- Research roundup: Improving individual well-being at work
- APA 2021: Don’t miss free CE; topics for practitioners
- Webinar: Using Motivational Enhancement Strategies to Treat Substance Use and Psychological Disorders
Thursday, July 29, 2021, 1–2 p.m., Eastern Time
July 2
- Psypact: 26 states have now passed laws allowing interstate practice
- APA at the White House: Talking to patients about vaccines (YouTube video, 50 minutes)
- Continuing education workshops at APA 2021
- A wealth of opportunity
- Free ebook: Psychology and the Post-Pandemic Workplace
June 18
- APA Guidelines on Psychological Practice for Sexual Minorities (PDF, 1.46MB)
- Research roundup: Traumatic events and the LGBTQ community
- Protect payments and improve practice by sharing feedback on the Physician Fee Schedule
- 5 reasons you can’t miss APA 2021
- Webinar: Online Searches and Your Private Practice
Friday, July 16, 2021, 1–2 p.m. Eastern Time - Free online course: Kidney Disease and the Family
APA has partnered with the Dialysis Patient Citizens Education Center to create this free online course to help parents and caregivers learn more about how a child’s mental health may be impacted by a chronic illness diagnosis and how to cope.
June 4
- The CMS Physician Fee Schedule: Submit comments, protect payments, improve practice
- APA2021 Virtual: Registration is now open
- The growing demand for geropsychologists
- Free online course: Kidney Disease and the Family
APA has partnered with the Dialysis Patient Citizens Education Center to create this free online course to help parents and caregivers learn more about how a child’s mental health may be impacted by a chronic illness diagnosis and how to cope.
May 28
- APA lauds HHS formation of Behavioral Health Coordinating Council
- Speaking of Psychology podcast: The future of policing one year after George Floyd’s death
- How bystanders can shut down microaggressions
- Webinar: The Importance of Diagnostic Assessment to Inform Treatment Course and Planning
Thursday, June 17, 2021, 1–2 p.m. Eastern Time - Nominate a colleague for the Distinguished Professional Contributions Awards (PDF, 100KB)
Deadline: August 1, 2021
May 14
- HIPAA Privacy Rule: Proposed changes could impact practitioners
- How to provide telehealth to older adults
- Nominate a colleague for the Distinguished Professional Contributions Awards (PDF, 100KB)
Deadline: August 1, 2021 - Webinar: Marketing Ethically and Effectively in the Digital Age
Wednesday, June 9, 2021, 4–5 p.m. Eastern Time
May 6
- COVID-19: When is it OK to provide more in-person services?
Updated with new guidance from the CDC - The ethical imperative of self-care
- Mental Health Check-In: How We’re Doing and Ways Employers Can Help
Business Group on Health podcast, 30 minutes - Webinar: Developing Niche Practices and Other Collaborative Approaches
This live 10-credit CE series is designed to empower practitioners at every career stage and enable you to implement successful strategies for starting, enhancing, operating, supervising, and closing a private practice (group or solo).
Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 4–5 p.m. Eastern Time
April 23
- Research roundup: Technology-enhanced treatments for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder
- APA reaction to Chauvin verdict: Right decision, but the nation has more work to do
- Treating people of Color: Three essential ways to prepare
- Psychologists protected from 2% sequester cuts for the remainder of the year
- Webinar: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Unemployed Individuals
Part one of a two-part joint APA/National Institute of Mental Health series
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Free to sign up; $15 per session for 1.5 CE credits
April 9
- Telehealth guidance by state during COVID-19
- The ethical imperative of self-care
- APA calls for reforms to nation’s gun laws
- Special event: Webinar series from APA and the National Institute of Mental Health
This two-part series is designed to highlight emerging evidence-based approaches that can be implemented to mitigate the negative effects of unemployment on mental health and substance use. Webinars are free, but there is an option for 1.5 CE credits at $15 per webinar.
Part 1: Scope of the problem and testing evidence-based strategies
April 28, 2021, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
Part 2: Scalable approaches to address mental health barriers to employment
April 30, 2021, 1 p.m. Eastern Time
March 26
- Managing your clinical team at a group practice
- Reminder: The compliance deadline for “information blocking” rule is April 5
- Psychologists warn Congress of access cliff for patients who rely on telehealth
- APA Town Hall: Addressing Stress in America and APA’s role in this reality
Monday, March 29, 2021, 12–1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
March 12
- Research roundup: How telehealth can be used to address population health disparities
- Stress in America 2021: One year later, a new wave of pandemic health concerns
- APA moves a step closer to accrediting master’s programs in health service psychology
- COVID-19: When is it OK to resume in-person services?
Updated with new guidance from the CDC - Building and sustaining a thriving private practice: From start to finish
A 10-credit CE series of one-hour sessions designed to empower practitioners at every career stage and enable them to implement successful strategies for starting, enhancing, operating, supervising, and closing a private practice (group or solo).
February 26
- Let’s Get Technical: Keeping your emails private and secure
- The RUC survey: How your input helps determine the value of a billing code
- Webinar: Getting the most out of your private practice website
Friday, March 5, 2021, 1–2:00 p.m., Eastern Time
February 12
- Biden administration signals likely extension of Public Health Emergency through the end of 2021
- Payment for quality: APA sharpens focus on practice innovation, digital therapeutics
- 2021 Trends report: Psychology research is front and center
- Webinar: Getting the most out of your private practice website
Friday, March 5, 2021, 1–2:00 p.m., Eastern Time
January 29
- Payment for quality: Changes to Medicare’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System
- D.C. adopts PSYPACT law, allowing interstate practice for psychologists
- APA Town Hall: What’s next for APA in 2021
- The top 10 trends in psychology for 2021
January 15
2020
December 11
- COVID-19: Ensuring psychologists to have access to the vaccine
- Psychologists likely to see pay cuts for Medicare services in 2021
- Let’s Get Technical: The best online payment service for your practice
- How to give your patients more access to their health care records
- Share your feedback on proposed guidelines for operational psychology practice
- Sponsored webinar: Effective staging and management of self-harm and suicidality in groups with personality disorders
November 13
- How to make remote payments safer
- Call for nominations: Advisory Committee for Measurement-informed Care and the Mental and Behavioral Health Registry (Deadline: December 18, 2020)
- Healing the political divide
- APA 2021 call for proposals is now open
- Webinar: Battling burnout in the COVID-19 era
October 30
- Research Roundup: How COVID-19 impacts African Americans
- Five tips for balancing parenting and virtual practice
- How APA is helping COVID’S overlooked populations
- Stress in America 2020: APA sounds alarm about the pandemic’s impact on Gen Z
- Register now for the Technology, Mind and Society Showcase
- Application deadline approaching for latest pandemic Provider Relief Fund payments available to psychologists
October 16
- COVID-19: Is it legal to treat clients in another state?
- Optum adopts APA’s guide on billing for testing services
- How to take charge of online reviews
September 25
- Help APA prevent payment cuts to psychologists’ services
- APA teams up with Farm Aid to address farmer stress
- Increasing the visibility of providers of color
- Become a member of the Committee on Professional Practice and Standards (PDF, 88KB)
September 11
- Share your concerns: Comment on proposed payment cuts to psychologists’ services
- Using mobile apps with patients who have experienced trauma
- How to talk to your patients about firearm safety
- Help APA update the Clinical Practice Guideline on PTSD
- Webinar: Impact of COVID-19 on alcohol use in the U.S.
- Seven ways to get better at delivering bad news
August 14
- Medicare proposals for 2021: Psychologists’ payments impacted
- APA Services stops abusive insurance recoupment demands over $100,000
- How to provide telehealth to older adults
- Practice guidelines: What’s been done and what’s coming
- Free journal resources on practicing during COVID-19: Special issues
Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
Practice Innovations - Call APA’s Pandemic Hotline for free consultations
July 31
- Treating people of color: Three essential ways to prepare
- Supporting families with loved ones in the ICU
- Raising reimbursement
- Convention: Enroll now for APA 2020 virtual CE workshops
July 17
- Want to offer free sessions? First know the risks
- Delirium, PTSD, brain fog: The aftermath of surviving COVID-19
- Webinar recording: Troubleshooting “Zoom fatigue” in the era of telehealth
- Convention: Enroll now for APA 2020 virtual CE workshops
July 2
- How APA Services is working for you during the COVID-19 crisis
- Five tips for transitioning your practice to telehealth
- After DACA victory, attention turns to mental health needs
- Webinar: Providing mental health telehealth services in farming and rural communities
June 19
- APA ensures psychologists have access to PPE through Amazon
- Tips for doing effective phone therapy
- Shorter application form now available for Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness
- Stress in America: Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two
- Webinar: Improving mental health care by understanding the culture of farming and rural communities
June 5
- COVID-19: What the Ethics Code says about reopening your practice now
- How to launch a practice that is 100 percent online
- Psychologists embrace telehealth to prevent the spread of COVID-19
May 22
- Treating anxiety and stress in front-line workers: A step-by-step CBT guide
- CMS recognizes PSYPACT licensure requirements for interstate practice
- Providing psychodynamic care during COVID-19
- Relationship-oriented psychotherapy during COVID-19
May 8
- Resuming in-person services during COVID-19
- Updated telehealth guidance by state in response to COVID-19
- Treating front-line workers: A step-by-step guide
- Serious mental illness and COVID: How to help your patients right now
- Let’s Get Technical: Mindfulness apps for kids
May 1
- Billing update
Phone only telehealth services for Medicare during COVID-19
April 16
- How to provide telehealth in nursing homes
- Answers to practicing psychologists’ latest questions about providing telehealth services
- Pain management in a crisis: APA’s guidance on doing assessments and treating chronic pain during the COVID-19 crisis
- Telehealth testing with children: Important things to consider
- How COVID-19 may affect presurgical psychological evaluations
April 9
- Telehealth guidance by state during COVID-19
- How to do group therapy using telehealth
- Is your patient’s anxiety or depression related to COVID-19?
- Managing COVID-19 concerns for people with OCD
- Get federal aid for your business during the pandemic
April 2
- APA calls for comprehensive telehealth coverage
- Teleneuropsychology: New resources for your practice
- Connecting with children and adolescents via telehealth during COVID-19
- Four ethics tips to remember during COVID-19
- Research proving benefits of teletherapy
- How to do psychological testing via telehealth
- The latest Medicare updates related to COVID-19
March 27
- Latest Developments for Practicing Psychologists in Response to COVID-19
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Coronavirus
- Self-Care Advice for Health-Care Providers
- Social Isolation Can Be Dangerous for Older Adults: Here’s How Psychologists Can Help
- Quality Reporting Changes During COVID-19
- Combatting Bias and Stigma Related to COVID-19
- 6 Ways to Help Your Child Manage Their Anxiety During COVID-19
March 18
- What the COVID-19 telehealth waiver means for psychology practitioners
- How to prepare your office for telehealth
- Informed consent checklist for telepsychological services
- FAQs: Psychology training and COVID-19
- Want more info on telepsychology?
March 5
- COVID-19 and psychology services: How to prepare your practice
- My first year: What to look for in an office
- Webinar: Build a better website
- Help develop APA’s next Clinical Practice Guideline
February 20
- Medicaid changes that benefit psychologists
- Research roundup: Working with traumatized youth
- Psychologists needed for Clinical Practice Guideline development
- Help APA Services, Inc. advocate for psychologists on reimbursement Issues
February 6
January 23
- When your private therapeutic relationships become public
- Five steps to building a powerful brand
- Do you see Medicare patients? Join the Mental and Behavioral Health Registry
January 9
2019
December 12
- Let’s Get Technical: Comparing the latest telehealth solutions
- Why you need a professional will today
- Protect your practice from scams targeting psychologists
November 21
- Research roundup: Evidence-based strategies for treating chronic pain
- State Beat: Texas creates a new regulatory board for psychologists
November 7
- Psychologists will see payment increases for health behavior services in 2020
- Running start…to a great career: Avoiding burnout
October 24
- Research roundup: How to build a more effective therapy group
- State Beat: Psychologists win exemption to new “gig workers” law in California
- Call for comments: Proposed Guidelines for the Implementation of Evidence-Based Psychological Practice
October 10
- Psychologists’ Health and Behavior codes are changing
- Boost your reimbursement with quality reporting
- Shutting Down: What the law says about closing your practice
September 26
- Let’s Get Technical: Choosing the right CBT app
- State Beat: New state laws expand options for prescribing psychologists
- APA’s New Depression Treatment Resource
September 12
- Research roundup: Traumatic events and the LGBTQ community
- Helping communities after Hurricane Dorian
- Running start... to a great career: Keeping up with the research
- Quality reporting for mental and behavioral health professionals
August 22
- Proposed rule offers better Medicare reimbursement for psychologists
- Connecticut law requires insurers to demonstrate parity
July 25
- Research roundup: Treating women of color
- Shutting Down: How to protect your patients when closing your practice
- A new issue of Good Practice
July 11
- Arizona eases licensure for out-of-state psychologists
- More reports of telephone scammers targeting psychologists
- Self-care for psychologists
June 27
- Using unsecure email
- Running start... to a great career: Enhancing cultural competence
- Progress Notes: Self-care for psychologists
- Five key ways psychologists are tackling the opioid crisis
June 13
- D.C. psychologists ask for Medicaid reimbursement
- APA’s Depression Guideline now available
- Let’s Get Technical: Software for practice
- Continuing Education Workshop: Crisis response planning for preventing suicidal behaviors
- Monitor on Psychology: New solutions for the opioid crisis (June 2019)
May 30
- APA Calls for changes to Medicare audit rules
- Sending and receiving patient information
- Disaster response resources
- Call for Comments: Guidelines for practice with service members and veterans
May 16
- State Beat: Updated resource for aid-in-dying evaluations
- Research roundup: Engaging fathers in treatment
- May webinar series on testing codes
- Progress Notes: Finding a niche in reproductive psychology
May 2
- Compact allowing interstate practice for psychologists takes effect
- APA works to resolve problems with payments for psychological testing services
- Shutting down: Selling your practice
April 18
- Psychologists in Texas fight to keep regulatory board independent
- Research roundup: Children with autism
- Progress Notes: Sharing your expertise in the media
- Call for comments: Guidelines for practice with service members and veterans
April 4
- Running start… to a great career: Starting a family
- Obesity guideline resources available
- Call for comments: New guidelines for psychological practice
March 21
- New mental health apps review column
- Advocating for improved access to mental health care
- APA honors U.S. Rep. Lowenthal for mental health leadership
- Call for nominations: MBHR
- A new opioid guide for psychologists
March 7
- Prescribing rights in Iowa and Idaho
- MIPS eligibility
- Shutting down a practice
- Call for nominations: MBHR
- APA establishes new Office of Applied Psychology
February 21
- New York parity compliance law takes effect
- Research roundup: Monitoring treatment progress
- Interventions to prevent perinatal depression
- Progress Notes podcast: A practicing psychologist in tech
February 7
- New bill would add psychologists to “physician” definition
- APA’s clinical data registry helps psychologists with value-based payment programs
- Clinicians Corner: Understanding behavioral addictions
- APA guidelines on boys and men launch national conversation
January 24
- Research roundup: Healthy aging and the positivity effect
- 2019 Tricare advocacy
- Profile of the executive director of the New Jersey Psychological Association
- Call for nominations: Treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
January 10
- CMS adds psychologists to MIPS
- Working with the media
- New psychological and neuropsychological codes in effect
- Call for nominations: Treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
2018
December 13
- Self-care for psychologists
- Midterm election wins
- Progress Notes podcast: Helping veterans heal
- Call for nominations: Treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain in adults
November 15
- 2018 Stress in America report
- Medicaid reimbursement changes
- A global effort to help veterans
- Research roundup: Working with adults adopted as children
- Testing code webinar
November 1
- Testing code changes Q&A
- Call for nominations
- Psychologists running for office
October 18
- More info on testing codes
- Research roundup: Telehealth and the practice of psychology
- Opioids policy changes
October 4
- New testing codes
- New ethics rules
- Kentucky psychologist makes a run for office
- Advice on finding a postdoc
September 20
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