I visited the web sites for all of the Divisions of the American Psychological Association, and also web pages associated with all of the presidents of the Divisions. It gives you a good idea about what psychologists in the US are doing. The newsletters for each division are available on the page describing the Division. Here is the latest newsletter for clinical psychology. I'm using this information for the Introduction for Healers and Feelings. Here is the publication list for Nancy Eisenberg, President of the Developmental Psychology Division. I see the Divisions as falling into three categories. There are six which involve "housekeeping" issues such as teaching psychology, international psychology, state associations, and the history of psychology. The other 48 seem to cover subareas of psychology and interests of psychologists in equal portion. It is tough to classify some between these two groups, and you would get disagreement as to which category a particular Division falls into. Here is the list of Divisions, and here is my categorization:
Subareas of psychology: experimental, comparative, developmental, personality/social (dk why these are combined!), clinical, consulting, industrial/organizational, educational, school, counseling, engineering, rehabilitation, consumer, theoretical/philosophical, behavior analysis, community, psychopharmacology/substance abuse, humanistic, environmental, health, neuropsychology, media, sports, child/adolescent clinical
Interests/Practice Areas: measurement/statistics, social issues, aesthetics/arts, public service, military, aging, psychotherapy, hypnosis, intellectual/developmental disabilities, women, religion, child/family policy, psychoanalysis, law, families, LGBT, ethnic/minority, peace, group theory/psychotherapy, men, pediatrics, pharmacotherapy, disaster/trauma, addiction
If you are interested in psychology, investigate the APA; there are more resources there than you can imagine.
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