Psychology and Public Policy

Introduction: Reshaping our Views of our Field. Part 1 Co-Evolution of Psychology and Policy; a Process with a Purpose; Toward a Psychology of Change and Innovation; Public Policy and Public Service; our Professional Duty; Psychology and Public Policy in the "Health Care Revolution" - Legal Policy Analysis and Evaluation; Psychology in the Public Interest - What Have we Done, What Can We Do? Part 2 Psychological Science as a Policy Resource: a Renewed Need for Research on the Science of Public Policy; On Being Useful; the Nature and Consequences of Psychological Research on Social Problems; On Getting in Bed with a Lion; Social Scientists and Decision-Makers Look at the Usefulness of Mental Health Research; the Role of Psychological Research in the Formulation of Policies Affecting Children; Making Research Apply - High Stakes Public Policy in a Regulatory Environment. Part 3 Public Health and Public Priorities: Balancing Expertise with Practical Realities; Organized Psychology's Efforts to Influence Judicial Policy-Making; When Psychology Informs Public Policy - the Case of Early Childhood; Psychology and Public Policy - Tool or Toolmaker?; How to Influence Public Policy - a Blueprint for Activism; Health Psychology in the 21st Century - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome as a Harbinger of Things to Come; US Mental Health Policy - Proactive Evolution in the Midst of Health Care Reform. Part 4 Policy Makers: Their View - How the Policy Makers See Us; Children and the Congress - a Time to Speak Out; Disability and Rehabilitation Research from Policy to Programme - a Personal Perspective; Public Policy and the Homeless; Psychology Research and NIMH - Opportunities and Challenges; Violence Against Women - the Congressional Response; and Moving Toward (Self) Recognition as a Public Resource - the Views of a Congressman Psychologist.