Author: CPA Webmaster

In September 2019, CPA will launch its 2019 federal elections microsite.  It will include:

• Links to information about the registered parties and their election platforms ./li>
• Tips and explanations about the role of campaign volunteers and about how interested members and affiliates can get involved in the political process.
• How you can connect with your local riding MP and candidates – even sending them a letter to express your concerns about the need to address and discuss issues relevant to psychological health and science as part of the campaign (both locally and nationally).
• Information about the advocacy positions CPA has taken in its recent 2020 pre-election budget consultation and about what you might consider discussing with the candidates in your riding.
• A link to a popular website among those with a passion for politics that has cool features to track regional trends, poll numbers, seat projections, and available riding by riding analyses.

The microsite will also launch a new Very Involved Psychologist (VIP) and Very Involved Psychology Researcher (VIPR) post-election advocacy initiative. The VIP/VIPR program will be a longer-term strategic initiative that aims to enlist interested CPA members with a passion for policy and politics to act as advocates on health and science issues with their local MPs. No one is a better advocate than a passionate expert who’s established a personal connection to their local MP.

Note, CPA as an organization is non-partisan and does not endorse any particular political parties or candidates. Through our initiatives, the CPA’s goal is to assist its members who have interest in being informed and engaged in the political process.  Note too that we will not be bombarding anyone with regular election updates, save reminders to consider visiting the site.

Due to scheduled maintenance, APA PsycNET and other APA platforms will be unavailable from Friday, July 26th at 7:00 pm, EDT until Saturday, July 27th at 1:00 am, EDT (UTC -4).

Please complete and save any work before this time, as all services will be unavailable during this period.

We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime may cause.

We are accepting submissions for our upcoming Psynopsis issue on Indigenous mental health. Please submit your 400-900 word articles by August 15, 2019.

For more information, go to https://cpa.ca/psynopsis/.

Today I added some new resources to a web page of materials that may be helpful in thinking through the process of informed consent.

The resources fall into 3 categories:

1. ) links to examples of diverse informed consent forms from different sources (e.g., The Trust [which provides professional liability coverage to psychologists], The Center for Ethical Practice, Laura Brown);
2. ) excerpts stating the informed consent requirements from the standards and guidelines of 15 professional boards and associations—e.g., American Group Psychotherapy Association, American Psychoanalytic Association, Canadian Psychological Association, & Psychological Society of Ireland—including links to each of the 15 original documents; and
3. ) quotes addressing informed consent in a variety of contexts (e.g., psychotherapy with kids & adults, e-therapy, forensic exams, supervision) from ethics, clinical, and forensic textbooks; research studies; and articles in professional journals.

Here’s the link: https://kspope.com/consent/index.php

Dear Members of the IUPsyS Family;

A reminder that the deadline for nominations for the IUPsyS 2020 Awards is 01 July 2019.

The quadrennial IUPsyS awards are:

• * Major Advancement in Psychological Science Prize
• * Achievement Against the Odds Award
• * Lifetime Career Award
• * Young Investigator Awards

The awardees will be honoured at the Opening Ceremony of the next ICP in Prague, Czech Republic on Sunday 19 July next year. Further information and nomination forms can be accessed at: http://www.iupsys.net

We look forward to your nominations and urge you to inform others in psychology leadership in your country and region.

Pam Maras, President                                       
Saths Cooper, Past President

Theme of the Special Issue: Comparative Cognition & Cognitive Ecology: Unifying psychological and biological approaches to understanding animal cognition

Research in comparative cognition and cognitive ecology examines learning and other cognitive abilities in a variety of species with the goal of uncovering the proximate and biologically relevant mechanisms that underlie behaviour and development. Research in the domain takes both phylogeny and ultimate function into account. Because comparative cognition and cognitive ecology are focused on both fundamental and ecological questions about animal behaviour, they play the role of a theoretical hub within psychology, contributing critical solutions and establishing new questions in psychology and related disciplines such as behavioural ecology, computing science, and neuroscience. This confluence of approaches leads to exciting new insights into how animals, including humans, solve real-world, biologically-important problems. A main objective of this special issue is to unite research and researchers from traditionally disparate backgrounds, oft based on geographic locale (i.e., the North American tradition of experimental psychology and the European tradition of zoology) whose goal is to describe behaviour of animals whilst addressing cognition.

Call for Papers

Researchers with an interest in issues relevant to Comparative Psychology & Cognitive Ecology are invited to submit an expression of interest in the form of a proposed title and short abstract by 01 July 2019, via email to the Guest Editors: Lauren Guillette and Chris Sturdy. Papers should present original, unpublished work, and can take the form of an empirical laboratory/field work, an opinion piece, a review, or a meta-analysis. The deadline for submission of full papers is 30 September 2019 via the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Manuscript Editorial Manager at https://www.editorialmanager.com/cep/default.aspx. Submissions should indicate in the cover letter that the paper should be considered for this special issue along with three suggested referees. Papers should be submitted electronically in accordance with APA guidelines and can be written in either English or French. All submitted papers will go through peer-review with consideration given to their theoretical contribution, their originality, their methodological soundness, the clarity of the presented results and conclusions, and the relevance of the submission for the special issue. Once accepted, papers will appear quickly as Online First and, then, appear together as soon as is possible in a special issue.

The CPA 2019 Annual Report is now available.

• Click here for the English version: Annual Report 2019.
• Cliquer ici pour la version français : Rapport annuel 2019.

A new Ken Pope resource has been added to the Resources of Interest for Practitioners page.

Electronic advance voting for the 2019 CPA Board Elections is officially open and will close during the Annual General Meeting at 8:30am (ADT) on Saturday, June 1st, 2019.

Click Here for more information.

BMS professional liability insurance program, available to members of the CPA and participating members of CPAP, renews June 1st. Information about the program can be found at http://www.psychology.bmsgroup.com/faqs.html To purchase or renew go to http://www.psychology.bmsgroup.com/
To contact BMS t: 1-855-318-6038 e: psy.insurance@bmsgroup.com

CPA hosts two summits in May 2019: The National Conference on the Future of Professional Training from May 7th through 9th in Montreal and Whats Needed and Whats Next for Canada’s Psychology Scientists/Researchers in Ottawa, May 6th & 7th. Proceedings to follow.

Psynopsis Volume 41, Issue 1 on Professional Psychology Training is now available.

Find all our issues of Psynopsis here.

IUPsyS is inviting nominations for membership in the following International Science Council Advisory Bodies (ISC Advisory Committees PDF):

• Committee for Science Planning: Nomination Form – Committee for Science Planning (Word Document)
• Committee for Outreach and Engagement: Nomination Form – Committee for Outreach and Engagement (Word Document)
• Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science: Nomination Form – Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (Word Document)
• Committee for Finance and Fundraising: Nomination Form – Committee for Finance and Fundraising (Word Document)

Deadline for nominations is May 15th; please see respective documents for information on the committees and nomination procedures.

IUPsyS is inviting nominations for membership in the following International Science Council Advisory Bodies (ISC Advisory Committees PDF):

• Committee for Science Planning: Nomination Form – Committee for Science Planning (Word Document)
• Committee for Outreach and Engagement: Nomination Form – Committee for Outreach and Engagement (Word Document)
• Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science: Nomination Form – Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science (Word Document)
• Committee for Finance and Fundraising: Nomination Form – Committee for Finance and Fundraising (Word Document)

Deadline for nominations is May 15th; please see respective documents for information on the committees and nomination procedures.

The CPA is pleased to announce that Dr. Allison J. Ouimet is the new Editor for the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science (CJBS) (2019-2021). The CPA extends its thanks to Dr. E. Kevin Kelloway for his work in this role.

A new issue of PSYence Update is now available. PSYence Update is a newsletter to keep you up-to-date on activities undertaken by the CPA on behalf of psychological science.

Click here to open the PDF.

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 2018 Best Article of the Year Award Winner
Debora D’Iuso, Keith S. Dobson, Leah Beaulieu, and Martin Drapeau (2018). Coping and Interpersonal Functioning in Depression, Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science (Vol. 50, No. 4, 248-255).

The eightieth annual general meeting of the members of the Canadian Psychological Association will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 8:00 am, in the Nova Scotia Ballroom (2^nd Floor) of the Halifax Marriott Harbourfront, for the purposes of:

1. receiving and considering the annual report of the President and committees of the association, and approving the minutes of the previous annual general meeting;
2. receiving and considering the financial statements, the report of the auditor, and any change in membership and affiliation fees;
3. appointing an auditor; and
4. electing new members of the board of directors.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, on the twenty-ninth day of March 2019.
Karen R. Cohen, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer

Click here for more information.

The Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), the Ontario Psychological Association (OPA) and the Canadian Academy of Psychologists in Disability Assessment (CAPDA) write a letter to express their profound concerns over the September 2018 motion approved by the Council of the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) to continue registration of psychology practitioners at the master’s level and, further, to grant them the title ‘Psychologist.’ This 2018 motion overturns a 2013 decision of the Council to stop registering master’s practitioners of psychology.

Click here. for the full letter.

Green, C. D., Abbas, S., Belliveau, A., Beribsky, N., Davidson, I. J., DiGiovanni, J., Heidari, C., Martin, S. M., Oosenbrug, E. and Wainewright, L. M. (2018). What Proportion of CPA Journal Articles Contain Errors in the Reporting of p-Values? Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, 59(3), 203-210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cap0000139
Congratulations Christopher Green and co-authors!

Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Mewhort was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Queen’s University; an Honorary Life Fellow of the CPA and a current member of CPA’s Board of Directors; Past President of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science; and Editor Emeritus of the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology (CJEP). His research was in the area of intuitive memory, decision-making, and high performance computing and his work was continuously funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) since 1968. In his current tenure as a member of CPA Board of Directors, Dr. Mewhort was Chair of the Scientific Affairs Committee and Board Liaison to the Publications Committee. In both roles, he was a tremendous advocate for psychological science. Doug gave generously of his time and talents to the discipline of psychology, to his scientific and academic communities, the publishing landscape, his professional associations, his colleagues, and his students. CPA’s Board and staff extend our heartfelt condolences to Doug’s family and friends and share in their loss.