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Information Today September 15, 2011	New Databases from APA--PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY PsycTESTS joins APA's suite of research databases, providing a simple yet comprehensive solution for libraries and their patrons looking for access to test content. PsycTESTS will be updated monthly and includes more than 2,200 indexed test records, with more than 1,500 ready-to-use instruments.
Information Today January 17, 2012	PsycTESTS Will Be Available Via EBSCOhost PsycTESTS provides academic institutions, mental health centers, hospitals, and government agencies access to descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures.
Information Today June 12, 2014	APA Announces Milestone for PsycTESTS The American Psychological Association database PsycTESTS now comprises more than 20,000 test records, which is a growth rate of 900% since its launch in 2011.
Information Today October 10, 2013	PsycTESTS Increases Record Collection The American Psychological Association's database PsycTESTS recently reached a milestone: It surpassed 15,000 test records. According to the website, it currently holds 16,213 master profiles and 12,197 actual tests or test items.
Information Today June 28, 2012	PsycTESTS Coming to EBSCOhost PsycTESTS is a one-of-a-kind database providing descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching.
AskMen.com	Mean People A new study in the journal Psychological Science suggests that if people have certain gene variants, they're more likely to be nice.
Energize June 2006 Susan J. Ellis	Wouldn't It Be Nice to Really Know.... Trends in volunteering are reported largely based on observation and anecdotes rather than on hard data.
Energize October 2011 Susan J. Ellis	What Leaders of Volunteers Can Do To Gain Executive Attention This month, I am turning the spotlight 180 degrees to examine how leaders of volunteers contribute to the problem of not getting enough attention from higher-ups.
Energize November 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Strength in Numbers: Engaging Volunteers as Partners in Program Development There is a specific form of volunteer involvement that has great potential as a tool for internal advocacy: activating a visible team of volunteer representatives.
Salon.com November 21, 2002 D. Yap	Lying faces Abused kids are quick to detect anger -- even where there is none. Psychology professor Seth Pollak believes changing that reflex is crucial to healing.
Energize May 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Why Be Boring When You Can Celebrate in So Many Ways? It's your chance to enlighten, amaze, surprise, and educate everyone. Remember that only the volunteer program manager sees the full cumulative effect of volunteer involvement for the past year. Paid staff, volunteers, and administrators only see their small part of the larger picture.
Energize February 2010 Susan J. Ellis	Both Receiving and Giving Conspicuous by their absence, particularly in human service agencies, are volunteers with a direct, personal connection to the work of the organization
Energize April 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Confidentiality and Other Objections to Volunteers It's easy for staff in our organizations to stop any creative idea involving volunteers from going forward. They just have to raise one of the following objections:
Energize October 2009 Susan J. Ellis	Taking the Client's Perspective in Designing Volunteer Roles We are simply missing the boat by not directing volunteers into work that is of greatest value to the users of our services right now.
Managed Care November 2001 Heidi J. Dalzell	Counseling in the aftermath of terror Though the emotional consequences of the acts of terrorism on Sept. 11 may not be fully known for months or years, to the mental health community the tragedy was a call to action...
Energize October 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Practicing What We Preach: Volunteers Helping Us, Too One of the enduring mysteries of the volunteer management field is how often those who lead volunteer efforts do not build a team of volunteers to help them in their important work.
AFP eWire April 25, 2005	Canadian Volunteers Motivated by Cause, Connection Canadians are more motivated to volunteer their time and resources because of the personal satisfaction they feel rather than any reward or recognition they may receive, according to a survey.
Energize July 2014 Susan J. Ellis	I Really Want to Know: What's Going on Out There? Here are a few of the ideas from the past few years that I really love as concepts. Have you (or someone you know) tried any of them?
Energize August 2014 Susan J. Ellis	Identifying Who Is and Is Not a "Volunteer" I suspect that every reader has engaged in this sort of discussion/debate/argument more than once.
Energize May 2006 Susan J. Ellis	Online Spying Can Improve Your Volunteer Management Skills Use the Internet to be a quiet explorer, observing carefully what other non-profit organizations are doing. Educate yourself about approaches and models that you might follow, adapt, or even avoid.
Energize November 2011 Susan J. Ellis	Part-time Volunteer Management Means Equally Limited Volunteer Involvement, It is hardly news that the majority of people who lead volunteer involvement are expected to do so part-time.
Energize April 2011 Susan J. Ellis	Celebrate Collective Accomplishments, Not Volunteered Time Volunteer recognition is a powerful tool for leaders of volunteers that remains largely underutilized.
Information Today December 10, 2015	APA Reaches PsycINFO Milestone The American Psychological Association announced that it indexed the 4 millionth record in the PsycINFO database of scholarly psychology literature.
Energize May 2013 Susan J. Ellis	Strategic Volunteer Management: Expanding Your Organization's Brain The problem in volunteer management is not that our organizations are without strategies of various sorts; it's that volunteers are not naturally integrated into those strategies even as an operational tactic.
Energize June 2005 Susan J. Ellis	Mobile Volunteers - `Tis the Season In the past, one simply wished vacationing volunteers a good time and hoped they'd return in a few months. But if the person is going to have access to a computer and the Internet while away, consider a virtual assignment.
Energize August 2011 Susan J. Ellis	I'll Never Understand Why Executives Still Don't Understand Here is the most succinct set of arguments for not ignoring volunteer involvement.
Reason September 2005 Satel & Sommers	The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't How the trauma industry exploited 9/11.
Energize December 2012 Susan J. Ellis	End-of-Year Reports Can Illuminate Volunteer Achievements The invisibility of volunteers in many agency reports is matched only by the presentation of generally useless information about volunteers in other reports.
Energize October 2006 Susan J. Ellis	The Middle Management Barrier Middle managers are vital to how effective the organization's volunteer engagement will be.
Bank Systems & Technology May 8, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Stress Tests Reveal Some Weakness, But Not as Much as Anticipated. The bank stress test data shows that although 10 large banks must raise more capital, overall, major financial institutions aren't doing too badly.
HBS Working Knowledge October 18, 2004 Manda Salls	The Nonprofit Boon from Boomers A new study by the Harvard School of Public Health identifies baby boomers as a great potential source of volunteers in the future. But nonprofits better start making their pitch now.
Energize September 2010 Susan J. Ellis	Online Information Overload - and How to Cope We are drowning in data. What does this mean for our own professional development and for volunteer involvement?
AFP eWire February 28, 2005	New Report Sheds Light on Why People Volunteer While moral values are the primary reason many Americans volunteer, clear differences emerge between age groups, according to a survey.
AskMen.com May 29, 2014 Chris Riddell	Need A Valid Excuse To Play Video Games? Here It Is. Recently, there has been a greater interest in looking at the benefits gaming can have on a person's emotional, social and psychological health.
Psychology Today Nov/Dec 2006 Joann Ellison Rodgers	Altered Ego With time, a bit of elbow grease, and an understanding of your own character strengths, you can become friendlier, more caring, and less stressed by life.
Energize December 2009 Susan J. Ellis	When the Ax Falls: Budget Cutting and Volunteers Can an organization turn to volunteers to fill gaps when budgets are cut and employees laid off?
Energize January 2010 Susan J. Ellis	Differentiating Volunteering and Working for Pay The distinctions between the two groups are vital because we need both for different reasons.
Energize Susan J. Ellis	Should We Cap the Number of Hours a Volunteer May Serve Each Week? New volunteers may start off gung-ho and promise many hours before they know what they will experience. So I like the practice of setting an initial limit of maximum time until the situation evolves and looks to be successful.
Energize June 2012 Susan J. Ellis	Why Do We Love Volunteer Satisfaction Surveys? How did we arrive at this particular method of assessing success with volunteers? Do such surveys reveal anything meaningful about the value of volunteer contributions?
Energize September 2006 Susan J. Ellis	What’s in a Name…or a Title? What's the best title for the person who is designated as the leader of volunteers?
Energize August 2004 Susan J. Ellis	Applied Futurism: Putting Trends to Work Today You can strengthen your volunteer program by becoming an effective forecaster, making sure you seize great trends while sidestepping the bad.
Energize December 2006 Susan J. Ellis	Together We Stand: Volunteers and Volunteer Resource Managers Connected Frontline volunteers and boardroom volunteers are more alike than different, and the principles of effective volunteer administration apply to each group.
Energize February 2014 Susan J. Ellis	It's Time to Discuss the Complex Relationship of Volunteering and Money We constantly fight the attitude that "volunteers are free," but money is connected to volunteering in complex ways.
Energize December 2011 Susan J. Ellis	My Personal "State of the World's Volunteering" Report On December 5th, International Volunteer Day, United Nations Volunteers is set to issue its State of the World's Volunteering Report, officially bringing to a close the 2011 International Year of Volunteers + 10.
Energize December 2007 Susan J. Ellis	Helper Triage: Volunteer Management in Emergencies It's imperative that citizen volunteers be a subject for consideration in any emergency plan and that at least one authorized person be designated solely to be in charge of volunteer mobilization when a crisis occurs.
AFP eWire January 22, 2007	Survey Examines Corporate Support of Employee Volunteers in Canada Most corporations and businesses in Canada encourage or accommodate their employee volunteer activities during work hours, although the manner and extent of the support varies widely, according to a new survey.
Energize September 2012 Susan J. Ellis	"Why?" Is More Powerful than #@#%! Throughout my years in working with clients and audiences, I have found that asking someone to explain the reason for a particular statement, action, or decision almost always puts things into context and enables forward progress. So it's surprising that we do not ask "why?" more often.