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What are the acceptance rates for graduate psychology programs? (2019). Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/datapoint
This magazine article by released in February 2016 and pointed out on the news generated from the APA’s Center for Workforce Studies about the application that various students ha made to be admitted and pursue courses in the Canadian graduate psychology programs. This study magazine does not fall in a specific area of forensic or criminology but concerned with the broader aspect of being admitted into various studies.
The author’s point of view is the increased number of applicants who are applying to pursue various programs in the psychology department, and the acceptance rate of numerous applicants throughout the institutions that can offer the programs.
The primary theme of the magazine article is the number of students who can be admitted to pursue various programs and the overall number of students who will be re-distributed into multiple subfields. The primary target of the magazine article is the students aspiring to take a career in the field of criminology and forensic and their respective personnel set to cater for their bills.
The message that the author is trying to convey to the target audience is mainly about applicant’s acceptance rates in the respective subfields that they are applying for as well as the overall acceptance rate. The author arrives at a significant finding that there was a higher acceptance rate for the school of psychology as well as related programs in the field of applied psychology. Acceptance rates were lower in clinical and social psychology. On the master’s applicants, the acceptance rates were high for all the subfields. From a general perspective, master’s applicants were many, and their prevailing acceptance rate was also very high. In terms of future articles, this magazine article produces a foundation for understanding applicant’s patterns and acceptance rates in various subfields that they intend to pursue.
Letters: March 2016. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/03/letters
This magazine article depicts the three key issues, and the merit elaboration that was raised in magazine article released in February called “Listening to killers,” The article narrows down to the behavioral forensic science. The author’s point of view is on repeated abuse and neglect amid development and the ways it affects the genetics, anatomy as well as psychology. The central theme of the magazines are the impacts that these issues will have and the long term effects on the offenders. Besides, the magazine examines the conventional approaches like interviews and judgments that can make one risky.
The articles target audience is the general population, which can be impacted by murder cases in one way or the other. In a community or state setup, so many people can fall victims of murder both directly or indirectly. In this magazine, the author is trying to express the three issues and solutions that were figured out in the magazine and a merit elaboration. The articles chief points out of the central theme are the impacts of repeated abuse and neglect, conventional approaches, and the existing knowledge about interventions present in the peer-reviewed journals.
The significant finding from the article is that there exists hope for the highest at-risk as a result of the three solutions being discussed. Additional beneficial knowledge gained is about the evidence-based treatment and Internet-based tests. The author, through the magazine, has introduced insights about the application of the internet tests and evidence-based therapies in minimizing the issues and costly homicides. The knowledge from the article will be used in future to applying in formulating strategies through which the nonviolent offenders will be released with the help of electronic bracelets. This will open an avenue in future research in the same field.
References
Letters: March 2016. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/03/letters
What are the acceptance rates for graduate psychology programs? (2019). Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/02/datapoint