by WSPA | Sep 10, 2026 | Statements on Public Issues
This July, WSPA celebrates Disability Pride Month and the rich cultural, historical, and professional contributions of people with disabilities to psychology and our community. WSPA is proud to represent a vibrant and diverse membership of psychologists and...
by WSPA | Sep 10, 2026 | Statements on Public Issues
This June, the Washington State Psychological Association (WSPA) celebrates our LGBTQIA2S+ community! WSPA is proud to represent LGBTQIA2S+ psychologists, researchers, students, and allies who bring their expertise and lived experience to this work every day. Our...
by WSPA | Mar 12, 2022 | Statements on Public Issues
In February 2022, Governor Abott of Texas issued a directive to all mandated reporters, including psychologists, to report the parents of transgender minors who receive gender affirming care to Child Protective Services. Governor Abbot utilizes a dangerously erroneous...
by WSPA | Oct 12, 2021 | Statements on Public Issues
September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Latinx American Heritage Month. Observed since 1968, it celebrates the histories, cultures, and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. This month...
by WSPA | Jul 12, 2021 | Statements on Public Issues
Since 2008, July has been designated Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (you can learn more about her remarkable activism here and here). As we have been experiencing as people and as practitioners, the road to pandemic recovery will...
by WSPA | Jun 12, 2021 | Statements on Public Issues
We, the members of the Washington State Psychological Association Board of Trustees and Good Trouble Committee, were moved by and stand in solidarity with the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy‘s (American Psychological Association Division 29) recent...
