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