APA
 APA  (Association)   | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | APA |
| Formation | July 1892 |
| The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States | |
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States.[1]
Background
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 157,000 members, including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students. It has 54 divisions, which function as interest groups for different sub-specialties of psychology or topical areas.[2] The APA has an annual budget of around $125 million.[2] In 2012, they mentioned on their site to focus on abortion, human rights, the welfare of detainees, human trafficking, the rights of the mentally ill, IQ testing, sexual orientation change efforts, and gender equality.[3]
Torture
| Emails Show American Psychological Association Secretly Worked with Bush Admin to Enable Torture |
The APA claimed to condemn the use of torture, stating that "there are no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether induced by a state of war or threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, that may be invoked as a justification."[4]
However, "throughout the 1950s and 1960s the APA worked quite closely with both the CIA and Army on mind control projects, many of which completely crossed ethical lines, as well as the APA's Code of Ethics, into areas described by many observers as sheer madness."[5]
Guantanamo Bay
- Full article: Guantanamo Bay
- Full article: Guantanamo Bay
“The military psychologists’ claims of offering quality care to detainees is false. A few years ago, I received documents via Freedom of Information Act that showed that at least one detainee who died ostensibly of suicide at Guantanamo, Mohamed Al Hanashi, killed himself in large part because of a negative encounter with a military psychologist.”
Jeff Kaye (29 July 2018) [6]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Torture and the APA | article | 9 June 2009 | Bryant Welch |
References
- ↑ http://www.apa.org/about/
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Psychological_Association
- ↑ http://www.apa.org/about/policy/
- ↑ "http://www.apa.org/about/policy/national-security.aspx |
- ↑ https://truthout.org/cries-from-past-tortures-ugly-echoes59738
- ↑ https://medium.com/@jeff_kaye/when-gitmo-psychologist-refused-to-listen-to-detainees-torture-claims-the-prisoner-took-his-own-84133ba383e8 Medium
