Conference Agenda

Many major societies have experienced a decline in democracy, and a rise of authoritarian strongmen, in the 21st century. In order to better understand and reverse this trend, psychologists must explore what I call 'political plasticity' (how much and how fast political behvaior can change) over the long term. This talk is based on three books, The Psychology of Dictatorship, The Psychology of Democracy, and Threat to Democracy: The Appeal of Authoritarianism in an Age of Uncertainty. I explore the springboard to dictatorship, and the psychological characteristics of the citizen capable of supporting and sustaining democracy.

Download program materials here: https://icpweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Moghaddam-Plenary-Materials.pdf

By drawing attention to the coloniality underpinning climate change, I argue that psychologists are able to resituate themselves more meaningfully in relation to global social struggles that seek not only to avert the climate crises but to address climate/coloniality. This decolonial option is fundamental for the flourishing of a pluriversal world.

Drawing on the COVID-19 crisis, we argue that Survival is an Hegemonic Social Representation, a matrix whose elements are dynamically defined and constructed by different groups. The definition and establishment of the elements of the matrix could be key to whether actions promoting climate justice are supported and implemented.

Five areas where psychologists can help address climate change are: (1) Changing behaviors causing climate change. (2) Increasing human connection with nature (3) Advising leadership for planet protecting good governance. (4) Psychological interventions for those affected. (5) Preparing for bad outcomes. Responses to COVID-19) give insights for climate change responses.

This is an experiential activity- based on art therapy- where we will explore one of our current concerns. There will be a breathing component, then a guided meditation, some writing/drawing, and reflective time (quiet time) to engage with your concern.

Violence against women and female incarceration rates predict the estimated prevalence of modern slavery, with femicide as the single strongest predictor. These forms of violence and oppression are part of a complex web of intersecting factors that contribute to human rights violations against women across the globe.

Climate emergency causes eco-anxiety for a growing number of young people. This systematic review presents the main findings to date on eco-anxiety in children and adolescents. A key finding is that eco-anxiety should be understood from a developmental perspective, its manifestations ranging from guilt to existential crisis among young people.

Climate change impacts all people, but disproportionally affects Native Americans and Indigenous people who live in Coastal regions of the United States. In this lightening talk, we specifically focus on discussing more about the impacts of climate change on these specific groups and areas as well as how to possibly address these issues.

This talks highlights the importance of decolonizing statistics and provides one possible framework for doing so. We will highlight sequential changes that have been made to two statistics courses within two doctoral psychology programs. We will share both the positive and negative impacts that these changes had on the courses.

This talk reports on the importance and efforts to decolonize a statistics course. We highlight efforts made to decolonize the course and the students’ responses to the efforts using qualitative analysis. Themes discovered and learnings from the students’ responses will be discussed.

Innovative cross-cultural collaborations and decolonized research methodologies are needed as the field of psychology moves forward with the work of decolonizing/indigenizing psychology. We will present a human rights-based transnational feminist theoretical framework for indigenizing feminist Ghanaian psychology, focusing on gender and women’s rights.

This presentation will explore the internationalization of curricula to develop global citizenship among students. We must pay attention to whose voices are heard within psychological science – with respect to samples, researchers, and gatekeepers. Susan will explore both content and pedagogy that instructors might consider when designing more inclusive courses.

This presentation aims to conceptualize bullying targeting Asian adolescents in North Amercian schools during the COVID-19 pandemic by integrating three different theories at macro, mezzo, and micro levels. This presentation not only helps us understand potential anti-Asian racism in schools, but also guides counselling services to reduce these incidents.

Current literature is limited with regard to how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the mental health of international students in Canada and the inequities they face in accessing care. We synthesize the key barriers faced by this population into the following categories: financial, informational, and language/cultural.

Due to recent increases in Anti-Asian violence in the U.S., this study aimed to examine relationships among Asian identity, acculturation, stress, and belongingness among 166 East-Asian American emerging adults. Findings suggest a heightened awareness of racism is associated with increased stress and decreased feelings of belongingness among participants.

The climate change conversation has focused on climate justice, often excluding environmental justice and racism. The attempt has been to ignore climate justice’s foundation within the environmental justice framework. Schlosberg and Collins (2014) conceived three concepts that confirm the intersectionality of the two to explore in more detail.

How does living in a volatile environment contribute to cultural and political differences? In this talk, I discuss large-scale multi-national studies my colleagues and I conducted that examine how socioecological stressors influence literacy, political ideology, political restriction, collectivism, and societal conference.

Can friends and family affect not only your emotional but physical heart? This talk will explore the connection between social support and heart health.

The Covid-19 pandemic has crutched the Indian healthcare workers (HCWs). To cater to their psychological needs, we conducted a cross-sectional online survey to investigate associated factors and prevalence of stress, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, resilience, and their consequent impact on their quality of life; from a unique neuro-psycho-socio-spiritual perspective.

South African newspapers are laced with reportage of abuse of the elderly across the nooks and crannies of SA. There are also scientific/empirical evidences to support this claim. The stydy showed that physical abuse was more common among men while emotional, financial and sexual abuse were most common among women.

The practice of wearing a mask is a behavior that prevents disease transmission. Yet, mask-wearing has become politicized. As such, we will test a model of moderated mediation where frequency of mask-wearing mediates the relationship between experienced stigma from wearing facemasks and positive affect.

There are significant gaps in disability research related to best practices in supervision. This lightning talk will address the need for disability justice-focused supervisory practices and provide recommendations for our profession to better meet the needs of student trainees with disabilities who are engaged in clinical work.

Disability is often overlooked as an essential component of diversity in training and professional development. This lightning talk will propose and explore best practices to integrate disability competencies and examine the negative impact of upholding an ableist mindset throughout psychology training opportunities to address this growing need.

The ICP 2020 human rights observation, highlighting the plight of displaced peoples worldwide, will feature a collective reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as music, poetry, short talks, and a vigil.

The aim of an international survey was the issue whether physiotherapist learn about the moral code of conduct, ethical reasoning and decision making during their basic education. The results showed big differences around the world. It is crucial to assess and reflect the manner of teaching ethics and cross-cultural competences

This symposium discusses the meaning of decolonising for

• Psychologists as persons - Decolonising the minds
• Psychology in theory and research - Decolonising Psychology
• Society - Decolonising Society

There is a growing awareness of the influence of colonial history on theory, assessment and practice of psychology. Also, the effects of former colonisation are still felt today, in global economic relationships, in social relationships, in attitudes and prejudices, and also in the transgenerational transfer of traumas to children of survivors.

How can psychologists on a global base, in representations, in epistemology, in practices, in relationships, work on decolonising minds, psychology and society?

Developing societies are often characterized as valuing ‘relatedness’ compared with privileging individual achievements. In most developing societies of the East, cultural knowledge is used to construct ‘relational selves’ that contrast with the "othering" imposed by coloniation. Psychologists in developing societies need to develop ‘glocal’ psychologies, incude construction of ‘local universals’.

This presentation traces some key moments in the development of psychology as a discipline that has been both implicated in and resistant to forms of oppression and inferiorization across the globe and how a Pan-African lens to psychological research may contribute to the decolonial turn in the social sciences.

Insights on the role of objects in memory processes – traced back to classic descriptions of the human mind –, allow psychologists to better understand conflicting reactions to material traces of colonialism still present in the contemporary European environment. Such a research may give a specific contribution to decolonization processes.

Health equity is achieved when people are able to attain their full health potential and are not disadvantaged from doing so because of environmental or social factors. Health inequities are reflected in differences in the length and quality of life; in rates of disease, death, and disability; in severity of disease; and in access to treatment. This symposium will identify the barriers to achieving health and mental health equity and describe strategies to reduce barriers to achieve equity.

Gaps in mental health care stem from historic lack of investment and action promoting positive mental health, prevention, and care for children, adolescents, and caregivers with mental health problems. This presentation will showcase UNICEF's multi-sectoral and multi-layered approach which reframes mental health as a lifespan asset.

Health disparities are preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. These systematic and avoidable differences are intensified by political, economic, and social influences. This presentation will address the contribution that psychology can offer in achieving health equity.

This lecture will describe innovations to improve the access to evidence informed psychological therapies globally.

Join us for this selfcare session to focus on ourselves for a moment. Participants will be guided though a short yoga session for beginners. Even simple practices and short sessions can have a deep effect and help to improve your general well-being, concentration and stress resistance.

We live in a world of uncertainty. Dealign with it requires a combination of logic, intuition, resilience and self awarenss. To do it well we also need the ability to think critically and have the courage to try things out.

In this talk we explore the psychological strategies and the competences needed to navigate our way and we introduce our model for living and working with uncertianty - The Richmor Model.

During my serendipitous journey of becoming a feminist psychologist, I have capitalized on opportunities to promote gender research while advocating gender equality. Challenges faced by women I encountered have informed my research and initiatives to establish the research infrastructure. Gender research and action were intertwined throughout this journey.

Disabled people are over-represented in less favourable social environments, under-represented in valued environments, and have reduced participation in decision making. This talk will consider this claim and reflect on some of the ways that psychologists can support disabled people.

Despite important disability laws there are no changes in implicit attitudes toward disabled persons. To address this core issue we need research that informs a more widespread societal approach to improving conditions for disabled people. This talk focuses on specific suggestions for researchers and clinicians to move disability justice.

Despite a constitutional commitment to disability inclusion in South Africa, people with disabilities are left behind and subject to abuse and even death.

I suggest reasons for continuing exclusion. My particular emphasis is on the politics of inclusion and vulnerability in light of race and class struggles.

Conflict is a part of our lives, both in and out of the clinical setting. Music has the power to soften hardened hearts and add harmony to a troubled world. In this session, we will explore the role music can play in self-regulation, emotional expression, communication, cooperation, and addressing conflict and misunderstanding. The presenter will highlight some of her doctoral work and professional work as a psychotherapist, social worker, music therapist, professional musician, and community musician. She will draw from current research and related professional and personal experiences. Join us for an enlivening and inspirational presentation!