Soc for Humanistic Psychology

01/24/2021

Interview with BBC's World News TV on healing America's political divides, making psychology a top national priority, promoting healing dialogues, and callin...

08/07/2020

WOMEN IN HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
Special Issue of The Humanistic Psychologist

UPDATED Call for Submissions!
New deadline for submissions is January 30, 2021

Over the past several months, we have witnessed the need to honor the universally shared experience 2020 has offered us. In the midst of a pandemic, racial injustice, deep poverty, and global crisis, we are called to care for one another. For that reason, we have decided to extend the deadline for our special issue on Women in Humanistic Psychology and to broaden its scope. In addition to our original goal of highlighting humanistic-existential approaches to women’s experiences, we are emphasizing submissions that speak to the impact of COVID-19, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other pressing concerns that 2020 has brought. Through our shared narrative and wisdom, let us have a voice that calls us all through this time of change.

This is a call for papers for a special issue of The Humanistic Psychologist to acknowledge the concerns and celebrate the contributions of women in humanistic psychology. The call for journal manuscript submissions is open to those offering perspectives on women in humanistic psychology, including:

• humanistic approaches to women’s issues;
• existential issues women face;
• perspectives on feminine hospitality and responsibility in the pandemic and as protestors
• (re)framing self, other, and world amid and ;
• marginalized populations/intersectionality;
• feminist/womanist views on police brutality;
• community-based interventions to support racial injustice;
• family rights concerns, insights, and vision;
• political societal impact portraits;
• economic and health care disparities present in the pandemic;
• women’s sexuality, sensuality, and identity;
• contemporary social media and its impact on female lifespan development;
• contemplative and mindfulness applications to women’s studies; and
• any other topics related to women in humanistic psychologies

Deadline for submissions is January 30, 2021.

Please submit manuscripts here with the designation “For special issue on women”: www.editorialmanager.com/hum/default.aspx

03/13/2020

Thank you, WDIV-TV, Detroit and for a chance to talk about coping with the Coronavirus’s impact on our lives. Here are some highlights:
* Model mindfulness and calm presence with children. Address and reassure their concern. Let them know they’re protected by you and the family is safe. Children feel their parents anxiousness. * Use the time together to bond in rich ways as a family: watch movies or streamed shows, cook meals together, listen to music. Talk to one another. *Feel a sense of pride in your family acting as good citizens, being a part of one community working toward a common healthy goal. *Use technology to stay in touch with loved ones. *Practice gentle, self-care: take a bath, read a great book, rest, get creative, play with children and hang out with your teens.
*And, ultimately, continue returning your awareness and focus on the here-and-now of the present moment—back from past or future hyper-vigilant thinking or panic—and simply, gently breathe. With mindfulness comes wisdom. With wisdom comes wise choice-making. With good choices comes peace. With peace comes clarity. It is a good excuse to use this time to practice learning how to really be present in life with our loved ones, and even with ourselves. citizens

08/07/2019

The division 32 hospitality suite for the APA convention in Chicago will be located in Marriott Marquis room #3242

It is just a short 5 minute walk from the convention center

We look forward to seeing you there!

07/06/2019

Come meet your Division 32 Executive Board Chicago, in the popular SHP Hospitality Suite! Eat, drink, and be merry with the Div. 32 Board during evening social hours! Welcome incoming Board members: President-elect Jonathan Raskin, PhD, Treasurer Andrew Bland, PhD, Members-at-large Theopia Jackson, PhD, and Vanessa Brown, PsyD!

07/01/2019

SYMPOSIA!!! Don’t miss exciting Division 32 Symposia Chicago!

06/05/2019

Division 32 Members,
It is with great excitement that the Division 32 Communications Team submits the 2019 APA Convention Division 32 Program to you!

Special thank you to Richard Bargdill for bringing such great works together as our Program Chair, and to Hospitality Suite Programming Chair Gina Belton for highlighting the scholars and friends we are honored to host at the Marriott Marquis Chicago! Division 32 President Nathaniel Granger has steered us into a wonderful age and incoming President Drake Spaeth is ready to raise our stewardship to the next level!

Your Communications Committee thanks you graciously for your support of Division 32 at APA 2019.

Attached is the link for the 2019 APA Division 32 Program Brochure:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GeBCbi52ehXF0g-nN-KLjvFwbcNuRx7U/view?usp=sharing

With gratitude,
Your DIV32 Communications Committee

See you in Chicago! Come to the Division 32 Hospitality Suite for great HS programs, discussion, sharing of ideas and trends, all in a collegial gathering space! Please join us!

HumanisticPsychology

04/29/2019

GOLDMAN AWARD WINNERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AND OTHER ECO-MARTYRS DESERVE OUR RESPECT AND PROTECTION

Dr. Richard Bargdill and his group of psychology student researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) are investigating the fate of eco-martyrs murdered in the line of their activist environmental work. VCU students Josh Geen, Victoria Farnsler (student research coordinators) and Andrea Lee, Chelsea Brewer, Olivia Willoughby, Ian McFadden, Michael Somma, Devu Kumar, and Patrick Daly (student researchers) contributed to this reporting.

The Goldman Environmental Prizes were awarded today, April 29, 2019. The Goldman Award honors grassroots environmental heroes from the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America, and South & Central America. The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them. Through recognizing these individual leaders, the Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the natural world. (Goldman website: https://www.goldmanprize.org/)


GOLDMAN AWARD WINNERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE DESERVE OUR RESPECT AND SOME PROTECTION

By Ian McFadden

On January 15, 2017, 51-year-old environmentalist Isidro Baldenegro López was killed by a hired gunman in the home of a relative after returning to his native land, the Tarahumara region of northern Mexico, following threats of violence and death from those taking advantage of the region’s resources through logging and mining. Like his late father before him, Baldenegro López had dedicated his life to protecting the region from those who wished to demolish forests and natural environment for personal gain. At the age of seven, Isidro witnessed the murder of his father for making efforts against logging in the Tarahumara region, the very same work Isidro continued up until his own death. In 2005, Balden

04/29/2019

03/28/2019

Dr. Heatherlyn Hoffman keynote speech at the Society for Humanistic Psychology Annual Conference: Lessons from an Immigrant: Seeking Community and Identity @ Oregon State University