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Div. 24 newsletter: Call for submissions
This is a call for submissions for our Winter newsletter. The newsletter highlights the work of the division, columns from division leadership, and announcements from members. We also hope to solicit brief essays from division members on a general theme that intersects with the interests of STPP members. This is an opportunity to publish early thoughts on new projects and we especially encourage student members to submit.
April 21-23, 2023
Hybrid Conference: Boston College campus and online
One of the goals of this year's conference is to explore the construction of the psychological humanities and what it is in the service of. Broadly stated, this year’s theme calls us to consider: What would a more human, humane, and humanities-informed psychology look like? Is such a bridge, as Cushman describes it, even possible? If so, what would it do? Why would we desire such a psychology? Who would it serve?
2023 Psychology & the Other Conference
October 6-8, 2023
Hybrid Conference: Boston College campus and online
STPP programming for the 2022 midwinter meeting
The call for papers deadline is December 15, 2021.
STPP programming at APA’s 2022 annual convention in Minneapolis
Call for proposals and APA convention details.
Div. 24 CODAPAR Grants
Learn more about the Div. 24 CODAPAR grant projects from 2019 and 2020, including the division's oral histories.
Div. 24's program for APA 2021 Virtual (PDF, 5MB)
Join Div. 24 at APA's 2021 annual convention, August 12-14. The division hosts meetings, discussions, poster sessions, and more on topics ranging from immigration and social responsibility in teaching to deglobalization and marginalized youth and families' experiences navigating the justice system. Convention content will be available on-demand for three months after the convention.
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
Constructing the psychological humanities
Psychology & the other conference
Psychology & the Other Conference will take place October 6-8, 2023.
APA’s 2021 annual convention took place August 12-14.
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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