Topic: American Psychological Association

The APA will reduce its use of a San Diego hotel being boycotted by a coalition of gay rights groups when it meets in August The American Psychological Association (APA) will reduce its use of a San Diego hotel being boycotted by ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Aug. 8 The Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, on the recent health care debates: ... When you go to hear elected officials or political candidates discuss the issues of the day, be ...

US psychologists are slamming therapies treating homosexuality as an illness, and warning mental health workers against promising patients their sexual orientations might be changed. The 150,000-member American Psychological Association said in a report, released at its convention in Toronto, that mental health ...

APA rejects gay-to-straight therapy with a landmark report and resolution In an astonishing 125 to 4 vote the American Psychological Association (APA) approved a resolution Wednesday that repudiates reparative therapy, the controversial gay-to-straight treatment also known as “pray away the gay,” the ...

Psychologists association: Therapists shouldn't tell gay clients they can become straightThe American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments. Instead, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple ...

James Dobson's 'ex-gay' conference met by parents of gay children who disagree with his views on homosexuality Holding a banner that read “I love my gay son” Karen Turner silently protested outside of the First Presbyterian Church of Orlando. She was flanked ...