Psychology in action: The need for bystander intervention programs to reduce public harms.

The current social climate in America is replete with reports of tragic events that could have been prevented. Our nation seems to be facing an unrelenting stream of problems without solutions. This article introduces a special section on active bystandership, which proposes more optimistic ways forward.

Introduction to the special section: Supervision in publicly funded settings: Best practices.

Supervision of trainee and early career psychologists is the epitome of clinical skill cultivation and mentorship of knowledge passed from an experienced professional supervisor to supervisee. However, supervision is not only a "one-way street" as it has been traditionally regarded. Rather, the supervisor-supervisee dynamic is variable, ranging from didactic, to symbiotic, to everything in between.

The Worldview Genogram: A process model for enhancing diversity responsiveness and competence in education, training, and clinical supervision.

Diversity responsiveness and competence is an imperative in current graduate psychology training and few, if any, will debate this. However, what has been and still remains frustrating to most practicum and internship clinical supervisors and graduate school instructors is a dearth of safe and practical tools to enhance this process, particularly in terms of the awareness domain. The authors of this article present a process model, the Worldview Genogram (WVG), that has been developed and implemented in clinical field placements and classroom settings over the last 22 years with significant success.

Disentangling the effects of intergenerational transmission of depression from adolescence to adulthood: the protective role of self-esteem.

This study aimed to disentangle time-stable and time-varying effects of maternal and paternal depression on trajectories of adolescent depression from ages 13 to 23 and examined whether self-esteem moderates the examined associations. Sex differences in the direct effects of parental depression and its interacted effects with self-esteem were further explored. Data were collected from a sample of 2502 adolescents and their parents participating in a panel study spanning from the year 2000 to 2009 in northern Taiwan.

College counseling services: Meeting today's demands.

This article is an introduction to the special issue of highlighting college counseling services as integral agents in public service delivery. The editors hope that readers across varied environments will enjoy learning of samples of the creative work being implemented across counseling centers to the benefit of all those who are served in public service settings. (PsycINFO Database Record