Global mental health: A population health approach for enhancing mental wellness

Djavila Ho, MSc & Carlos Zalaquett, PhD

The Global Psychology Alliance (GPA) is a body of over 70 leaders of international psychological associations under the auspices of the Office of International Affairs at the APA. The GPA International Summit on Psychology and Global Health in Bogota, Columbia, 2022, saw Alliance members discussing and affirming their commitment to addressing UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), 10 (Reduced Inequality), and 13 (Climate Action). The output of these meetings was the development of a roadmap with actions for each of the three SDGs to be executed and reviewed by 2025. Fostering ongoing international collaboration, sub-groups would continue to meet over the next few years to put this road map into action. 

The Global Mental Health (GMH) sub-group has since begun to address four key action items to propel the agenda for good health and wellbeing, specifically focusing on mental health. Of the four action items, the first is advocacy for the adoption of a population health framework for mental health. This population health framework would serve as a foundation for the remaining three action items of the GMH – coordinating GPA training for communication with government and policymakers, mental health stigma reduction, and improving access to community mental health through capacity building.

The GMH’s population health statement was crafted to introduce the population health framework as a complement to conventional individual mental health care model and explain how psychology fits within this perspective. It highlights how taking such an approach can ensure greater access to affordable, quality-based mental health care while enhancing existing community-based systems of care that target the well- being of individuals and communities. The GMH sub-group believes that the global psychology community must adopt a population health framework and engage in population health services to adequately meet SDG3 and promote mental health and wellbeing, prevent mental disorders, support early intervention, foster referral and recovery services, and reduce relapses.

Few countries have sought to include a population health approach for mental health care. However, psychological associations are uniquely positioned to advocate and lobby relevant government bodies and local agencies, emphasizing how this approach can augment the population’s mental health and the long-term health economic benefits of doing so.

According to the roadmap, the next step for this subgroup is guidance for action. We now endeavor to build upon this PHF statement by crafting an advocacy toolkit that will provide global examples of population-based approaches to mental health that have already been enacted and provide guidance on how psychologists can introduce this approach in their communities. Consistent with the broader work of the GPA, we aim to have a global perspective, shining light on various approaches to population health for addressing mental health. With this, we invite readers to share any population-based programs they know about or are involved in with the Global Mental Health steering committee at gmhsteeringcommittee@gmail.com.

Resources:

• Population health statement (available in other languages) – https://www.apa.org/international/networks/global-psychology-alliance/population-health-statement.pdf 
• Global Psychology Alliance (GPA) – https://www.apa.org/international/networks/global-psychology-alliance 

Libro PSICOLOGÍA CLÍNICA: PERSPECTIVA INTERNACIONAL (Buela-Casal, G. y Sierra, J. C., Editores).

He tenido el honor de participar en el nuevo libro publicado por nuestros colegas Gualberto Buela-Casal y Juan Carlos Sierra. El libro, publicado en formato virtual (eBook) y ofrecido en forma gratuita representa un significativo esfuerzo para ofrecer una clara perspectiva global de la psicología clínica. Lo que realza aún más el valor del libro es su cobertura internacional y su profundidad de análisis. Usando un formato de entrevistas nuestros colegas nos encamina al abordajes de temas altamente relevantes de la Psicología Clínica, los cuales son analizados por importantes profesionales de la psicología de todos los continentes, lo que sin duda supone una perspectiva global de la psicología.

Como lo señalan los editores, “participan en este libro destacades especialistas profesionales e investigadores que han publicado más de 4.000 artículos en revistas científicas indexadas en Web of Science (WoS) y que han recibido cerca de 130.000 citas. Además, doce de los autores forman parte del prestigioso ranking de científicos más influyentes del mundo elaborado por la Universidad de Stanford. Todos estos datos son indicadores de la calidad de la obra”.

Trabajando en conjunto con la Editorial Dykinson estos destacados colegas han logrado ofrecer el libro sin costo alguno, otra razón para felicitarlos por su gran logro.  Este es el vinculo donde pueden descargar el libro: https://www.dykinson.com/libros/psicologia-clinica-perspectiva-internacional/9788411707534/

The book PSICOLOGÍA CLÍNICA: PERSPECTIVA INTERNACIONAL (CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE), edited by Gualberto Buela-Casal y Juan Carlos Sierra, has just been published. The book is a compilation of the interviews that were conducted with guest speakers in recent years at the International Congress of Clinical Psychology. This book focuses on important topics of Clinical Psychology. Each topic is analyzed by relevant psychologists from all continents, creating a clear global perspective. The editors worked with Dykinson publisher to produce an e-book version available free of charge. Here is the link to download the book:

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Espero que disfruten esta gran publicación – Hope you will enjoy this great publication.

Carlos P. Zalaquett, Ph.D., M.A., Lic.

How can psychologists promote human rights?

Maryam N. Tafreshi & Harold Takooshian

On February 29, 2024, this question was the focus of a webinar which brought together APA Division 52 and the Psychology Coalition at the United Nations (PCUN).  

This webinar was organized by Maryam N. Tafreshi of Saybrook University, the co-Chair of the Division 52 Human Rights Committee. It was moderated by Emma Grace, Professor at the Chicago School (TCSPP), and featured five experts.

Maryam Tafreshi spoke about “The Cyrus Cylinder, and origins of the first charter for human rights” in Persia around 500 years BC.

Michael Stevens of Illinois State University offered a data-based overview on “Global democracy, human rights, and community solidarity.” 

Tara Pir, the CEO of the Institute for Multicultural Counseling and Education Services (IMCES), addressed “Why sustainable peace and human rights have not been achievable: What can be done?” 

Harold Takooshian of Fordham University shared the “IMCES resolution about oppressed psychologists,” which is posted online after being endorsed by most PCUN member organizations. 

Breeda McGrath of the Chicago School served as the discussant. 

Ahmed Gulzar–Chair of the Division 52 Committee on Human Rights, Peace, and Global Well-Being–also shared his views on the importance of human rights in the psychology agenda. 

Division 52 webmaster Luca Tateo recorded this webinar to post online.

Reflections on Psychology Day at the United Nations April 25, 2024

Elaine H. Olaoye, Ph.D.

Psychology Day at the United Nations 2024, was thoughtfully and strategically researched and complemented by some imaginative decisions made by Dr. Kim Baranowski and Dr. Carolina Corrales, Chair and Co Chair, it was indeed a resounding success.   I trust it will reverberate around the world all year, inspiring new collaborations that increase effective contributions to dealing with the epidemic of mental health problems that seem to happening around the globe.

The presentations not only covered research or treatment related to, or based on, tens of thousands of of adults and children, across at least four continents, from seventy-five countries, with populations struggling mightily with mental health and behavioral issues, but presentations also struck some emotional and cultural high notes, resulting in many synergic, energized and inspirational moments! Attendees were nodding their heads and placing affirmative comments in the chat.

Although the focus was on education, many presentations’ foci shone lights on the growing need for inclusion of artistic endeavor, lived experiences and cultural practices, in bringing meaningful and more readily accessible techniques, to educational and therapeutic practices. The critical issues of relationship as well as research, were juxtaposed and shown to work together in a clearer than usual manner, that could lead to increased adoption of some of these approaches. Similar approaches were recognized in Psychology with the establishment of  Division 10  ‘Psychology and the Arts’ as a charter division of APA as early as 1945.  Fowler, 1998 wrote: “It is common knowledge that psychology  is both an art and a science. The depth  of human experience is best addressed by drawing from the humanities and the sciences”.

As the Main Representative of the International Council of Psychologists (ICP) I am pleased to note that one of the ICP interns, Manisha Kumari convened a Psychology Day  Watch Party in India at O.P. Jindal Global University. There were watch parties in Rochester, Geneva, Los Angeles and New York as well.  I also sent out announcements of Psychology Day 2024 to all 193 Member states at the UN. In general publicity resulted in more than 800 participants and over 1700 registrants. We are looking forward to setting up some Psychology Day at the UN discussions and talk backs.

           Psychology Watch Party in India, April 25, 2024,  O.P. Jindal Global University 

A series of four publications on International Psychology Behavioral Science in the Global Arena, spearheaded by editors Elaine P. Congress, Harold Takooshian, and several guest faculty and student editors, deserve attention here. The editor of the fourth volume, titled Children Around the World (2024) was one of the Psychology Day 2024, outstanding presenters, Niels Peter Rygaard, CEO and Co-founder of the Danish Fairstart Foundation. Dr. Rygaard emphasized over and over again the importance of respecting and incorporating cultural knowledge and practices in helping children and their caregivers in the many countries he worked in around the world.

In collaboration with the legendary Philip Zimbardo, I wrote a chapter for Volume 2,”Global, Spiritual and Social Health”. (2022) I wrote “ Zimbardo’s choice of two key words – hero and imagination- come from vocabularies outside of the narrow domain of scientific psychology. Together these concepts embrace literature, myth, philosophy and more.”  Dr. Zimbardo’s work conceptualized  in his training  of ‘Everyday heroes’ applies social psychological experimental results and more. The training also promotes the development of critical social relationships while applying evidenced based principles.

As an individual in whom psychology and poetry have lived, grown and struggled for decades in my brain, it has resulted in a quality of cognitive and emotional stimulation that I have found valuable. It has also contributed in significant ways to my mental health and well being, Teaching undergraduate statistics in Psychology and writing poetry provided interesting and important tensions that invited resolutions. I was indeed delighted by the presence of both in the Psychology Day presentations.

I am currently taking a break from teaching psychology and working instead on publishing poetic works:  I am completing a republication of  a volume titled “Passions of the Soul” (2024) that covers nine sets of passions including Passions of a Poet, Passions of Friendship, Passions of Love, Passions of the Future, Passions of the Seasons, and Passions of the Soul, covering works from 1967 -2023.  Some of these poems are then used in the Appendix, titled “Recipes for feeding the Soul’ where they help create therapeutic  zero  calorie recipes. For example, ‘Rosemaried chicken and tossed time’ is designed to help cope with largely environmentally induced stress and anxiety. The  recipes utilize the metaphors of cooking and eating, as well as specific poems in the volume, to guide engagement in self reflection and a self therapeutic practice.  The volume will be available shortly.

I am also working on poetry volume entitled “45 Years of Gratitude: An academic’s memoir”. A collections of tributes and memories covering decades of events, teaching and learning experiences, and  relationships, while becoming and being a professor of psychology. Gratitude a concept long recognized in the wisdom literature, has been the focus of much attention and research in Positive Psychology.

Despite the widespread acknowledgement of mental health problems, it is important to recognize that these are not all psychopathological problems, they include problems in living, problems coping with stressors from the environment, from the speed of modern change, from urbanization, etc. These can be short term and long term as well as individual or social, and its important for mental health workers to distinguish among these levels of  responding and recognize interventions that focus on manageable self analysis and practice. This can increase a sense of agency, while calling upon individuals’ and cultural strengths, that too often get eclipsed or go unnoticed. Treasured poems and timeless  poets, as well as cultural wisdoms that have supported generations, can be called upon at appropriate times, to help individuals and groups to respond to a variety of potentially overwhelming challenges, in ways, that prevent them from developing into larger and more pervasive conditions.

Identifications of relationships between poetry and psychology were made by Freud and many other luminaries in psychology, based on the emotional and cognitive properties that are part of poetry. Additionally, poetry has been around for millennia and has guided and helped heal humanity in culture after culture and in era after era. My applause for 2024 Psychology Day’s format may be seen by some, as influenced by my current and  chosen concentration. But where psychology can be efficiently supplemented, not reduced or replaced, by pairing the emotional with the cognitive, the individual approach with a social one, and future oriented, cold research with more immediately oriented, warm relationships, describe a bias that I am confessing to here, this is not only professionally  propelled but also heartfelt.

Bravo to the Chair and Co-Chair of Psychology Day at the United Nations! Initiated for 17 years by the Psychology Coalition at the UN (PCUN), a concerted effort of many psychology NGOS working at the United Nations and sponsored this year by the UN missions from South Africa and the Philippines.  Thanks to all.

References

Fowler, R.D. The healing arts, APA Monitor 29 (March), 3 1998.

Olaoye, Elaine H., Zimbardo, Philip G. and Zsuzsanna M. Feher, Behavioral Science in the Global Arena: Global, Mental, Spiritual and Social Health¸ Promoting Prosocial Behavior through “everyday heroism”. Pages 167-179. Information Age Publishing 2022

Psychology Coalition at the United Nations: Continued expansion

Harold Takooshian & David Livert

In 2025, the United Nations celebrates the 80th anniversary of its birth on June 26, 1945. This three-part report recounts recent activities in early 2024 to describe the unlikely yet continued growth of psychology at the UN, despite challenges.

PCUN membership. Since the Psychology Coalition at the UN (PCUN) was formed in 2012, it has met monthly in New York City, at or near the UN building. These are about 20-40 representatives and interns in about 10 psychology NGOs, primarily living or working in the New York area. With the advent of global COVID-19 lock-downs starting in March of 2020, the monthly meetings were replaced by online zoom meetings that facilitated the participation of non-New York colleagues and students from many nations. This includes a new PCUN Secretary Efrat Neter (Israel) and Vice President Vera Araújo-Soares (Netherlands/ Germany) (Takooshian & Congress, 2022). Since 2020, PCUN continued to thrive under its officers, including Presidents Leslie Popoff (2019-2021), David Marcotte (2021-2022), and David Livert (2022-2024).  

On March 27, 2024, PCUN representatives voted unanimously to add a new NGO #11 to membership in PCUN. (See Table 1.)  The Society for Personality and Social Psychology (www.spsp.org) began as Division 8 of the American Psychological Association. Since SPSP incorporated in 1974, SPSP has grown into 7,500 colleagues and students across many nations.  The SPSP team at the UN is headed by Rakoen Martens (University of Oxford, UK) and Friedrich Götz (University of British Columbia, Canada). 

PCUN book series. In December of 2020, during the COVID lock-down, PCUN voted unanimously to launch a new International Psychology book series, in partnership with legendary fifth-generation publisher George F. Johnson of Information Age Publishing.  The book series has many goals including these: (1) To provide a platform to share psychology expertise on global issues with the UN and the public. (2) To pair busy experts with talented student interns, to co-author authoritative and readable chapters. (3) To provide useful and inexpensive textbooks for college courses.

In March of 2024, volume 5 appeared: a 16-chapter volume on “Children around the world” with four editors: Niels Rygaard, Uwe P. Gielen, Elaine P. Congress, and Julia Larock. This tome’s 16 chapters brought together 32 co-authors from 9 nations and several disciplines (including psychology, social work, medicine, law, education)—suitable for diverse courses in psychology, social work, and education. PCUN has also launched a new series of concise “gray papers” to post on timely global issues.  

Psychology Day at the UN. PCUN scheduled its 17th annual Psychology Day for April 25, 2024. Under a team headed by Kim Baranowski of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the focus of the 2024 webinar is “Reducing global inequalities through education: Psychological contributions,” featuring five speakers from five nations. (See www.psychologydayun.com/ )  In recent years, these Psychology Day webinars have reached up to 2,000 registrants in over 100 nations (Comerchero & Takooshian, 2023).  

Starting in 2024, PCUN is hosting “watch parties” on April 25 in four cities, headed by local representatives: (a) Geneva with Kelly and Michèle O’Donnell, (b) Los Angeles with Peyman Raoofi, (c) New York City with Harold Takooshian, (d) Rochester NY with Katlyn Rice. 

In recent years the UN has become visibly more receptive to behavioral science input. As the UN prepares for its 80th anniversary in 2025, PCUN continues to seek innovative ways to advance the UN agenda.  

Table 1.  21 UN Psychology NGOs in 2024 (11* in PCUN)

References

Comerchero, V, & Takooshian, H. (2023, Spring). UN Psychology Day 2023 focused on the promotion of peace. International Psychology Bulletin, 27 (2), 26-28.  

Rygaard, N.P., Gielen, U.P., Congress, E.P., & Larock, J. (2024). (Eds.). Children around the world: The future of our earth. Information Age Publishing. https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Children-Around-the-World 

Takooshian, H., & Congress, E.P. (2022, Summer). Expanding psychology at the United Nations. International Union of Psychological Sciences Bulletin, 14 (2), 5-6.  www.iupsys.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IUPsyS-Bulletin-Volume-14-Number-02.pdf

BOOK REVIEW
Pandemic Providers:  Psychologists Respond to Covid

Danny Wedding, PhD, MPH

On March 11, 2020, a pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization; this declaration came after 118,000 cases of the virus were diagnosed in 114 countries, resulting in 4,291 deaths.  As of March 23, 2024, 774,834,237 cases had been confirmed worldwide in 229 countries and territories, resulting in more than seven million confirmed deaths  (approximately 1.2 million in the US) (Worldometer, n.d.).  These numbers increase daily.  Although Joe Biden declared on May 11, 2023 that the national state of emergency for COVID was over, the disease continues to be a global threat that bedevils public health officials around the world.

None of us were ready for the COVID pandemic, and few of us were able to anticipate the profound changes that would result from an infection with a virus that was previously unknown to almost everyone, including psychologists.  However, we soon confronted new challenges:  Our patients were reluctant to come to our offices, fearing infection; when they did come, they wore masks, making it difficult to hear them clearly or assess affect; comfortable and seemingly innocuous acts like simply shaking hands became threatening and uncomfortable; cancelled appointments were commonplace as the virus spread; and conferencing with patients with Zoom became the new norm – and eventually a widely accepted professional interaction that received federal funding (Watson et al., 2023).  

While many of us reacted by withdrawing from professional practice, a group of psychologists, experts in treating trauma and members of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology (Division 56), began meeting weekly online to share insights and experiences with the challenges presented by the pandemic.  These weekly meetings eventually resulted in an edited book, Pandemic Providers: Psychologists Respond to Covid, published by Springer.  The three editors, Charles Figley, Lenore Walker and Ilene Serlin, are well known psychologists widely recognized for their trauma expertise.  They were able to recruit an astonishingly talented range of contributors, many of whom will be well known to International Psychology Bulletin readers.  These contributors include luminaries such as Judith Alpert, Maureen O’Reilly-Landry, Judy Kuriansky, Patricia O’Gorman, Kirk Schneider, and Arlene Steinberg.  

Pandemic Providers is a unique book, just as the COVID pandemic was a unique public health challenge.  The APA task force  was “bottom up,”  unlike other association task force groups that typically are implemented by APA Council.  Fourteen APA specialty divisions participated in the work, led by psychologist Charles Figley.  The group met on a weekly basis, sharing experiences and letting one another know what seemed to work in treating the depression and anxiety that accompanied the pandemic for so many.  

Although the work started as an APA Task Force, it soon morphed into something more. In the Preface, the editors note:

We met weekly at noon Fridays. We quickly discovered that our group was among very few behaving collectively as practitioners to help practitioners. We    were psychologists, social workers, counselors, lawyers, nurses, and other mental health specialists and experts who quickly became active in healing the nation and the world, in our own way. Although we came together under the APA rubric initially, we were on our own mission as a Task Force. Like the pandemic, the mission was emerging gradually.  (p. v)

Members of Division 52 (International Psychology) will be interested in the “International and Multidimensional Perspectives on the Impact of COVID-19” chapter that examined COVID programs and policies across dozens of countries ranging from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.  In addition, there is a table in the same chapter that lists multinational research projects on the pandemic, and a separate chapter that addresses international student collaborations on COVID-19.  

I was especially fascinated by a chapter by Alpert, Steinberg and Laddis comparing the COVID-19 pandemic with the 1918 influenza pandemic, also known as the “forgotten flu.”  This is the closest parallel to the COVID pandemic; it “infected about one-third of the world population (500 million people) and killed 675,000 Americans and 50 million people worldwide” (p. 21).  There are  fascinating parallels between the attempts of Presidents Wilson and Trump to minimize the seriousness of each pandemic for political reasons. 

Pandemic Providers’  extraordinary scholarship and hundreds of references and hyperlinks will be invaluable for serious COVID scholars. The book is expensive ($180 for the hardcover version; $139 for the ebook); however, the book belongs in every college and university library in English speaking countries.   

In short, Pandemic Providers: Psychologists Respond to Covid is a prodigious achievement with elaborate documentation.  The citations and references are comprehensive and current, and the writing is clear.  The authors include many of the leading figures in contemporary psychology.  This project was a Herculean task that took  approximately three years to complete.  Who could have guessed that a book this important would eventually result from a simple series of Friday afternoon Zoom calls?  Perhaps Pandemic Providers will help guide us as psychologists and other health care providers prepare to confront the next pandemic.

References

Watson, J. D., Pierce, B. S., Tyler, C. M., Donovan, E. K., Merced, K., Mallon, M., Autler, A., & Perrin, P. B. (2023). Barriers and facilitators to psychologists’ telepsychology uptake during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(8), 5467 – 5485. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20085467 

Worldometer (n.d.).  Coronavirus cases and deaths.  Retrieved March 23, 2024 from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/. 

As students in the field of International Psychology, we are part of a dynamic and ever-evolving discipline that holds the potential to effect meaningful global change. Our division’s focus on understanding and addressing psychological issues across different cultures and nations places us at the forefront of efforts to promote mental health, human rights, and social justice worldwide.

Being a student in this field comes with its unique set of challenges and opportunities. We are tasked with the responsibility of broadening our perspectives, deepening our cultural competence, and developing innovative approaches to tackle complex global issues. This journey, while demanding, is incredibly rewarding and transformative.

Our student committee has been working hard to achieve these objectives. So far in this current year, we have had some significant achievements. During the Mid-Winter meeting, the board voted to kickstart a mentoring program for graduate students and early career psychologists to gain guidance from more advanced members of the division. The student committee has been tasked with working on logistics for this program and reaching out to potential mentors. The student committee has been working on forging relationships with other international psychology organizations in order to better address world issues. The current student chair was fortunate to serve on a panel with other student leaders at the ESOSOC Youth Forum addressing “Youth Initiatives Driving Psychological Solutions for Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.” Through this, we were able to make better relationships between Division 52 and other organizations including The European Federation of Psychology Students’ Associations (EFPSA), International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), and APA division 48. We hope to have more successful partnerships in the future. Planning for the APA Convention at Seattle has begun, with discussions about programming with the ECP committee and Division 48 (Peace Psychology).

The student committee is excited for the rest of the year.  We encourage students to embrace the learning opportunities, connect with your peers and mentors, and contribute your unique voice to our global community. Together, we can advance the field of International Psychology and make a positive difference in the world.

Neha Srinivas, Division 52 Student Chair 2024
nehasrinivas16@gmail.com

Olivia Mounet, Division 52 Student Chair Elect
omounet@fielding.edu

International Environmental Justice Committee

The International Environmental Justice Committee has a new student member. Alisson Cohen joined the committee in January 2024.

Allison Cohen, B.A. (she/her) is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology at the University of Utah and a passionate environmentalist. Her research interests and clinical work include exploring the intersections of climate change and psychosocial suffering through a multicultural lens. Her prior academic expertise lies in International Affairs and Global Environmental Health, and she is eager to incorporate these areas into her work as a Counseling Psychologist.

International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice and Consultation

Ines Meyer, School of Management Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Mendiola (Joy)Teng-Calleja, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

Current Issue:

Volume 13, Issue 2: 2024 https://econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/ipp/current

Author Feature

Dr Lora Adair (lora.adair@brunel.ac.uk)

Adair, L., Lozano, N., & Ferenczi, N. (in press). Abortion attitudes across cultural contexts: Exploring the role of gender inequality, abortion policy, and individual values [Special issue]. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, and Consultation. 

* The opinions, information, opportunities, and materials expressed in this member-dedicated section are not necessarily supported by Division 52. Publication in this section does not constitute agreement or support from the Division. 

Participate in Psi Chi’s Cross-Cultural, Open Science, Research Initiative!

Hello everyone,
Learn about Psi Chi’s Network for International Collaborative Exchange (NICE) and
opportunities to become involved. Research experiences offered range from annual
collaborative projects to an in-person conference this November. This project is open
to faculty and students globally, and Psi Chi membership is not required to collect
data and contribute to the crowd-sourced data pool.

Spanish:
Participa en a investigación científica transcultural de Psi Chi

Hola a todos,
Los invitamos a conocer sobre la Red Internacional de Intercambio Colaborativo
(Siglas en inglés NICE) de Psi Chi y las oportunidades para que hagas parte de
nosotros. Las experiencias de investigación ofrecen un amplio rango de opciones,
desde proyectos anuales colaborativos hasta la asistencia al próximo congreso de
Noviembre. Este proyecto es para profesores y estudiantes a nivel global. Ser
miembro de Psi Chi no es un requisito para conseguir información y contribuir en la
investigación

Greek:
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Επιστήμης του Psi Chi!

Γεια σε όλους,
Μάθετε για το Δίκτυο του Psi Chi για τη Διεθνή Συνεργατική Ανταλλαγή (NICE) και
ευκαιρίες να συμμετάσχετε. Οι προσφερόμενες ερευνητικές εμπειρίες κυμαίνονται
από συμμετοχή σε ετήσια ερευνητικά έργα, έως ένα δια ζώσης συνέδριο αυτόν τον
Νοέμβριο.

Το NICE είναι ανοιχτό σε διδάσκοντες/σκούσες και φοιτητές/τριες παγκοσμίως και η
συμμετοχή στο Psi Chi δεν απαιτείται για τη συλλογή δεδομένων και την ένταξη στο
δίκτυο των ερευνητών.

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Conferences and Workshops

IX Regional Congress of the Inter American Psychological Society (SIP), June 25-28, 
Arequipa, Perú https://regionalsip2024.com

Global Neuropsychology Congress, July 3-5, Port, Portugal
https://www.globalneuropsychology.org

38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society
September 3-6, Cascais, Portugal, https://2024.ehps.net

International Society of Political Psychology, July 4-7, 2024, Santiago, Chile https://ispp.org/meetings/

11th European Conference on Positive Psychology, July 10-13, 2024, Innsbruck, Austria. https://www.ecpp2024.com/

International Congress of Psychology, July 21-26, 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, https://icp2024.com/

International Council of Psychologists, July 19-20, 2024, Prague Czech Republic.

• International Council of Psychologists is now accepting abstracts for poster submissions and lightning talks! Please contact infoicpinc@gmail.com for more information or reach out to Dr. Merry Bullock or Dr. Erinn Cameron.

Communicating Climate Hope 2024: Countering eco-anxiety and climate doomism in research and practice, August 15-16, 2024, co-located at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Abstract submission deadline is April 8th, 2024. https://climatehope.sites.olt.ubc.ca/

XIII Congresso Ibero-Americano De Psicologia, September 25-27, 2024, Abstract submissions ongoing. Lisbon, Portugal. https://congresso.ordemdospsicologos.pt/

X Ibero American Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology, October 15- 18, Granada, Spain
Call for abstracts deadline: May 10, 2024
https://www.apicsacongreso.com/en/

10th International Conference on Community Psychology, September 10 and 13th, 2024, Montevideo, Uruguay  https://reinventarlocomun.edu.uy

International Association on Suicide Prevention Asia Pacific Conference, 3-6 June 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.  https://www.iasp.info/bangkok2024

2nd Webinar Series on Community Psychology in Latin America
Dates and location: Online. One webinar per saturday from April 20 to June 22
Call for speakers deadline: March 30th
For more information: gabriel.medianeroa@gmail.com

Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, July 4-6, Santiago, Chile  https://ispp.org/meetings

The Discovery of Poison Ivy and Quick Sand

Robert F. Morgan

Optional Theme: Poison Ivy (Coasters)

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

–Robert Frost

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

If you’ve reached this far into the newsletter, you have taken the time to read through our wonderful submissions in this issue.  It has been our commitment on the editorial team to create a space where every voice is heard and respected across our diverse division membership. Our global membership is our greatest strength, and we are committed to ensuring that our content reflects the varied experiences and perspectives of our readers.

We share some exciting developments on the IPB editorial team.  You may have noticed that our President’s Letter was a collaborative interview by Dr. Antonio Valdivia.   We are fortunate to have Antonio join our IPB team with the goal to enhance our bilingual Spanish submissions.  We also welcome team member Gabriel L. Medianero Araúz, who is supporting the newsletter’s Conferences and Workshops section. As part of our ongoing commitment to serving this division’s diverse and global readership, we hope to include more multilingual sections in our newsletter. This expansion is a significant step forward in our mission to provide inclusive and accessible content for all our members, regardless of their language preference.   We are thrilled to see this expansion of our IPB team!

We are excited about the possibilities this new team brings and look forward to your continued support as we continue to grow. Thank you for being a part of our community and for your ongoing engagement with our newsletter.

With gratitude and joy,

Joyce, Neha, Antonio, and Gabriel

Please email questions, comments, or suggestions to ipbdiv52@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions for the August issue is July 15th, 2024.  The link to the submission guidelines can be found here.