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News from Div. 24
Call to ensure detained immigrants and refugees’ right to health and public health protections, human rights, and alternatives to detention (PDF, 200KB).
International connections and the revolutionary promise of theoretical psychology.
Routledge Book Series attracts many Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology authors
More information about a new book series of interest to division members.
Div. 24 journal welcomes incoming editors
Learn more about the new editors of the Div. 24 journal.
Div. 24 launches COVID-19 Support Committee and podcast
To support its members and psychologists, Div. 24 provides resources during the pandemic.
Collaboration Strategies for Psychologists and Activists to Protect Immigrants from Harm
On the Shoulders of Activist Scholars: Building Healthy Environments for Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum-Seekers
Bringing the evidence-based turn full circle
Critical thinking about disciplinary practices.
The clinical science movement in 10 years
How do you think the field of clinical science will be different 10 years from now? Honestly, not much different.
Why the clinical science movement fails
The psychpathology of vengance
Teaching developmental psychology as a theoretical and philosophical psychologist
The textbook Theories of Developmental Psychology (5th ed.) by Patricia H. Miller is unique in that the author takes a theoretical, rather than a categorical (i.e., biological, cognitive, social, etc. development) or chronological (i.e., prenatal to adolescent development), approach to explicating the foundations of and current research trends in developmental psychology.
Explanations of psychologists' ways of knowing
Explaining how psychologists know is an epistemological task that is crucial to the discipline and central to theoretical and philosophical psychology.
Theoretical and philosophical psychology in the service of practice
Theoretical and philosophical psychology has a long tradition of excellence, especially with regard to the critical examination and development of ideas. While these endeavors are significant in their own right, theoretical and philosophical psychology can also do much to facilitate the practice of various kinds of psychologists
Events
Information about upcoming and past events
Div. 24 events from APA 2020, the virtual annual convention, are still available as online videos for convention attendees.
Div. 24 2020 Mid-Winter Meeting
The Div. 24 Mid-Winter Meeting for 2020 took place in San Diego and offered an opportunity for psychologists to discuss pressing theoretical and societal issues.
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