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The article offers the author's view on deinstitutionalization in Canada. She mentions its inducement of homelessness, incarcerations of the mentally ill and racism. She notes its first occurrence in the 1950s and the involvement of human rights. She also points out the problem of interaction between the police and those with mental illnesses.

This article discusses the findings of an online survey of graduate students who want to work in the areas of clinical and counselling psychology, released by the Canadian Psychological Association in 2011.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of doing pre-employment psychological assessment for police applicants.

The article discusses the study "Promoting Trust in Police: Findings From a Randomised Experimental Field Trial of Procedural Justice Policing" by Kristina Murphy and colleagues, published in the August 2014 issue of the journal "Policing & Society." Topics tackled in the study are the link between procedural justice and greater public trust in police, and the importance of the procedural justice elements of voice, neutrality, trustworthiness and respect.

The article features the Honourable Ted Ormston, winner of the 2011 Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) Humanitarian of the Year Award .

The article reports on a whole new area of practice called "knowledge transfer," which originally referred to ensuring simply that people in one arm of a company knew what people in another arm were up to. It has broadened over the years to include transfer of knowledge to find ways of "translating" highly technical knowledge from one field to another.

The article focuses on making or keeping to-do lists, a mechanism to help individuals keep on top of their way-too-many activities. It discusses the importance of the to-do list in maintaining a normal and fulfilling existence and stresses that an individual cannot reach any level of self-actualization without having an acquaintance with the to-do list. Other information related to the function of a to-do list is presented.

The article discusses the issues about generational differences in the workplace and mentions a study which shows that the differences in managerial level and type of motivation are better explained by one's level in organizational hierarchy than his or her generation. The different levels of motivation expressed by people in different managerial levels including introjected, identified, and intrinsic motivation are also explored.

The author discusses assertiveness training. She mentions assertiveness as one approach in responding to challenging communications, a remark from author Seth Stoughton on the tendency for the traditional training of police officers to result to aggressiveness instead of assertiveness and the possible shift from the warrior mentality to the guardian approach in training police officers.

The article examines whether the quest for status is a fundamental human motive. Topics discussed include the two characteristics an individual must possess in order for people to confer status on them, the relationship of status to power, and the use of status in policing. It asserts that a quest for status could be a good things as long as it does not end up in an aggressive exercise of power.

In the article, the author talks about her experiences with surveys both in her work and when taking a vacation or personal travel. She cites the travel-related surveys that she was asked to complete, as well as the surveys asked by psychologists about her supervision style, methods of selecting interns, and satisfaction with various psychology-type services. She also offers tips on how to conduct surveys more easily.

A review is presented of the articles "Just following orders: a meta-analysis of the correlates of American police officer use of force decisions," by Colin Bolger, and "Police Encounters with People in Crisis: Independent Review of the Use of Lethal Force by the Toronto Police Service," by the Honourable Frank Lacobucci.

The article discusses the intuitive and uncanny ability of police officer that is conveyed by the characteristic known as social cognition and how police officers rely on this in every situation they encounter in their job. Factors that influence social judgments about others are attitudes, openness to alternative explanations, cultural background and ability to understand cultures. The role of personal experience as an essential element of social cognition is tackled.