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Its mission is to advance psychology as a science , as a profession , and as a means of promoting health and human welfare by ensuring that women achieve equality as members of the psychological community in order that all human resources be fully actualized . Orient urges Congress to allow the new technology to evolve and to be voluntarily adopted as it becomes useful , as the profession has done with new imaging technology , surgical procedures , and medications . But we are , as a profession , rather at a loss right now to pick the right metaphor to express our interdependence and the forms it should take . How seriously are we yet , as a profession , discussing the major implications of changed government philosophies affecting the higher education system , or the changes in the Victorian public library system of recent years ? Through its divisions in 50 subfields of psychology and affiliations with 59 state , territorial , and Canadian provincial associations , APA works to advance psychology as a science , as a profession , and as a means of promoting human welfare .