American Psychological Foundation

Last week, we announced that applications have opened for the second year of the Alma Empowering Minds scholarship in partnership with the American Psychological Foundation (APF). If you’re a student from a historically marginalized community and are currently in a master’s program in mental health care, we encourage you to apply for the 2025 scholarship! Learn more and submit your application here: https://lnkd.in/eCfkvESk Today, we want to spotlight four out of the ten recipients from last year who are all pursuing degrees in mental health. Meet Arisbeb Campos Gonzalez, Azul Lozoya Gomez, Becky Murray, and Bisola Abundance Mariam. Arisbeb’s interest in mental health is rooted in the unmet needs for this type of care in Latina/o and Hispanic communities. As a first-generation student, she’s driven to support families, communities of color, youth, and marginalized individuals. Azul is a first-generation Mexican immigrant and is passionate about helping the immigrant community. She hopes to serve communities that lack access to mental health services, and her long-term goal is to be a psychologist and advocate for immigrant and refugee children. Becky is a former scientist who realized that their true calling is supporting people with their mental health. Their long-term goal is to open a private practice specializing in queer issues, sex therapy, and trauma therapy. Bisola is passionate about reducing systemic retraumatization of domestic violence survivors through research and clinically informed policy intervention. She’s also the founder of a social impact company that uses quality of life and economic prospect models to improve the lives of survivors.

Congratulations to Natalia Rubio of Utah Valley University on receiving a 2024 Sharon Stephens Brehm Undergraduate Psychology Scholarship!?Natalia's research investigates how activities like dance and meditation can positively impact physiological responses & promote emotional and physical well-being. We're excited to see the impact that this scholarship will have on her career!??

Have you caught yourself scrolling on social media for long periods of time and noticed you begin to feel overwhelmed and overstimulated? While we may feel like we are “resting” during a doom scroll, our brains are still using their resources to absorb and engage with the content on our screens. In an effort to mitigate these feelings of being overstimulated, people have reported listening to videos on mute – taking away one of the stimuli. As odd as this sounds, @MichelleQuistRyder with the American Psychological Foundation, spoke with CECILY MAURAN at Mashable about this phenomenon and why people are catching on. ?? "When you start introducing the brain to things that are higher stimulus, and you have to go through that kind of adjustment period where all of a sudden you have to process that, and your brain has to realize that it needs to allocate more resources in that direction, that's part of where overstimulation comes from.? Watching it on mute is kind of a trade-off, where you're still engaging in the behavior that you're associating with dopamine or serotonin but you're reducing the amount of stimulus that you are feeding your brain, and so you're kind of staying away from that overstimulation," said Quist Ryder. Check out the full article to learn more??: https://lnkd.in/e3WdqS3Y? #Socialmedia #APF #Psychologyfacts?

This is a fun piece from our client @MichelleQuistRyder at the American Psychological Foundation about why people are slowly becoming more inclined to watch social media videos on mute. How fascinating!? Be sure to give it a read: https://lnkd.in/ezRdv8XT #Socialmedia #APF #NonprofitPR?

Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Musacchio Schafer, Ph.D., M.S., M.Ed. of Vanderbilt University Medical Center on receiving the 2024 Practice Based Evidence Grant!?This project addresses the long wait times faced by patients at high risk for suicidality, aiming to improve access to mental health care.

APF’s Fall 2024 Newsletter is here!?? Catch up on APF’s new Mission, Vision, and Values, plus highlights from our 2024 events! Flip through to see exciting updates, impactful stories, and meaningful ways to include APF in your year-end giving plans. https://hubs.li/Q02YKkYd0

?? Since 2018, APF has supported the APA Education Directorate's Committee of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (TOPSS) through the David and Carol Myers Fund. We're excited to share TOPSS's new free resource on social cognition & social influence - check out the link below to explore these resources and incorporate them into your #psychology classroom! ???https://hubs.li/Q02XDyBL0

The deadline is approaching for the Roy Scrivner Memorial Research Grant?? This program encourages the study of #LGBTQIA+ family psychology & therapy through supporting young investigators whose grad research is oriented toward issues in this general area. https://hubs.li/Q02YKnBJ0

Congrats to Sonakshi Negi of The University of Kansas on receiving a 2024 COGDOP Graduate Research Scholarship!?? We're excited to support Sonkashi's single-session intervention aimed at addressing binge-spectrum eating disorders.

???? Why do people watch videos on mute? In an insightful piece for Mashable, our CEO Michelle Quist Ryder explains the neurochemistry behind overstimulation and how our brains adapt to high-stimulus digital environments like TikTok. ??Check out the full article here: https://hubs.ly/Q02YXKCt0