Invitation to participate in a series of symposia during the upcoming PsySSA Congress

Dear Colleagues

As you may already be aware, the annual PsySSA Congress is being held at Emperor’s palace from the 15-18 September 2015. I am putting togethersome symposia with a few colleagues from the PsySSA Division of Research Methodology.

I am writing to you to see if you or anyone in your unit would like to contribute papers to any of the symposia listed below at the PsySSA Congress. Please note that you are welcome to put together your own symposia or presentations and submit online at www.psyssa.com. PsySSA would also like to encourage symposia and presentations that have a practice and practitioner focus rather than being a solely academic/research focus. We would also be willing to extend symposia over two or three sessions like for example in the psychological assessment theme if there were more than the 6 papers for a symposium.

Symposium 1: Research in Practice (Dr. Vanessa Scherman to convene) Paper 1: Implications of the new assessment legislation for private practitioners Paper 2: Capturing test data in private practice - managing test data, ethical issues included Paper 3 - Evaluation criteria for test selection – what private practitioners need to know Paper 4 - Publishing and presenting client data: the ethical and practical issues Paper 5 - Paper 6 - Paper 7-

Symposium 2 and maybe 3 (could be over two or more conference slots): Instrument development and adaptation in South Africa (Prof Sumaya Laher to convene) Paper 1 - Presentation on instrument to measure bullying Paper 2 - Developing an instrument to measure Anorexia nervosa in men Paper 3 - Using ECD ECERS and ITERS on SA children Paper 4 - Paper 5 - Paper 6 - Paper 7 - 

Symposium 3 and maybe 4 on Social media and/or Technology in Psychology (we are thinking on splitting these into two foci - technology in psychology and social media research in psychology) Paper 1 - The digital divide in South Africa – Implications for Psychology – Sumaya Laher Paper 2 – Using social media for research - practicalities and ethics (Lynn Hendriks and/or Sherianne Kramer - might move to Symposium 3) Paper 3 - Understanding learner attitudes towards Ipads/Tablets in blended learning environments – Sam Hart, Emma Boshoff and Sumaya Laher Paper 4 - Exploring computer attitudes, learning styles and learner motivation as predictors of learner achievement – Emma Boshoff, Sam Hart and Sumaya Laher Paper 5 - Effects of E-technology on therapeutic relationships – R.Klette Paper 6 - this is the least developed of the symposia but if you have something on computerized assessment it might fit in here Paper 6 - Paper 7 -

Please can you let me know as soon as possible if any of you would be interested in presenting and for which symposia. If you would like to join any of the symposia, I would need the abstracts submitted to me by the 10 April. Regretfully this is not a funded information. Colleagues will attend and pay for the conference themselves

Regards

Sumaya

Prof. S. Laher

Associate Professor - Psychology

School of Human & Community Development

University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, WITS, 2050, South Africa Tel +2711 717 4532 Fax 086 553 4913 Mobile +2783 225 7328 sumaya.laher@wits.ac.za

21st South African Psychology Congress

The 21st Annual South African Psychology Congress, with the theme Strength in Unity, to be held in Johannesburg 15 -18 September 2015 focuses on the strength of Psychology uniting within the discipline, and its capacity to forge greater unity in the nation, and beyond. The launch of the Pan-African Psychology Union last year and the highly successful hosting of the International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2012) are examples of PsySSA’s global record of uniting in the face of health, social and humanitarian challenges. To this end PsySSA continues to engage colleagues and organisations in efforts to broaden the horizons for Psychology as a discipline and especially the communities being served. In the context of furthering development in South African Psychology and ensuring the inclusion of a wide range of voices, presentations, scholarly and practice-oriented perspectives, the Congress Committee invites you to submit contributions for the 2015 congress. It is hoped that the congress will showcase a broad range of scholarly research and reviews that reflect Psychology as science, profession and practice.

The HSRC BRICS Seminar Series: Time to end extreme inequality. A Perspective from the BRICS

The HSRC BRICS Seminar Series

Time to end extreme inequality. A Perspective from the BRICS

Presenters: Mr Pooven Moodley, Associate Country Director for Oxfam in South Africa

Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities: see below)

Date: 7 April 2015

Time: 12H15 for 12h30  – 14H00   

This year the World Social Science Forum will be taking place in Durban under the theme "Transforming global relations for a just world". The Forum focus on a range of issues pertaining to global inequalities as they relate to governance, healthcare and education, climate change and adaptation, patterns of production and consumption, and human rights and social justice.

Following on this theme the HSRC’s BRICS Research Centre has invited Oxfam to present the findings of their recently published report entitled ‘In Even it Up: Time to end extreme inequality’. Drawing on case studies from around the world the report demonstrates the impact that rising inequality is having on rich and poor countries alike and explores the different ways that people and governments are responding to it.

While focusing on inequality trends on a global level the presenter will frame the analysis within a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) context. The BRICS countries present interesting cases as they continue to have growing influence in the global economy while facing challenges in reducing inequality but have been at the cutting edge of a range of successful and groundbreaking pro poor policies.

Pooven Moodley is currently Associate Country Director for Oxfam in South Africa, having previously worked with Oxfam International on Development Financing issues at the Pan Africa level. He is a Human Rights lawyer and an advocate of issues affecting the poor, having started his campaigning at a very young age during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and taking on pro bono precedent setting human rights cases.

He has worked for and also consulted for leading international agencies including Johns Hopkins University, Oxfam, UNDP, Futures Group, The Policy Project and the Research Triangle Institute. As the first HIV/AIDS Parliamentary Lobbyist on the continent he has worked extensively with Governments, Parliaments and Civil Society across Africa influencing and developing policy. He has played a role in influencing international structures such as the World Economic Forum, G8, G20, BRICS and UN General Assembly.

Kindly RSVP by 5 April 2015

Cape Town : HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building (Opposite Revenue Office), Plein Street, Cape Town. Contact Jean Witten, Tel (021) 4668004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or JWitten@hsrc.ac.za

Durban :  First floor HSRC board room, 750 Francois Road, Ntuthuko Junction, Pods 5 and 6, Cato Manor, Contact Ridhwaan Khan, Tel (031) 242 5400, cell: 083 788 2786 or RKhan@hsrc.ac.za

Pretoria : HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria. Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za

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PsyTalk 2015 Issue 1

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The launch of a new initative: Community Psychology in Global Perspective

Community Psychology in Global Perspective publishes work that is of relevance to community psychologists as well as scholars and professionals from a diverse array of other backgrounds with shared interested in community-focused work.

Community Psychology in Global Perspective is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to research, theory and intervention, and review articles exploring human interactions in community settings across the globe. Its special focus is on making explicit the ways in which culture acts as a framework organizing and guiding our experiences, utilizing ecological perspectives to enhance our understanding and promotion of individual and community well-being, and advancing work aimed at the creation of positive social change and social justice.

The journal is international in scope, reflecting the main concerns of social scientists and community practitioners worldwide. Community Psychology in Global Perspective welcomes contributions from a variety of theoretical approaches across disciplines (psychology, sociology, political sciences, urban planning, social work and others), although it especially encourages submissions of field-based, culturally situated research and intervention.

The content of the journal includes:
Research articles that report empirical qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods studies relevant to community psychology theory, method, and practice. The focus on qualitative research within a psychological frame will be a specific innovative contribution to the social science research. 
Review articles that survey theoretical developments or topics of major interest. 
Practice issues that present brief reports by practitioners or action researchers, which describe interesting developments and interventions or which address matters of professional and public relevance.

Contributions are invited on all aspects of Community Psychology, including, but not limited to: Community research methods · Participatory action research · Prevention & Wellbeing · Community program evaluation · Community development · Power & Empowerment · Active citizenship & Collective action · Minorities & Social inclusion · Gender · Migration & Intercultural relations · Social justice · Critical community psychology · Ecological clinical intervention

Community Psychology is an open access journal, free of charge to authors, and published online twice per year.

The link to the website: http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp