SEE Regional Conference of Psychology – 2009

THE SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN

REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY – 2009

Southeastern Europe Looking Ahead:

Paradigms, Schools, Needs and Achievements of Psychology in the Region

Bulgaria, Sofia, 30 october – 1 November 2009

The objective of the Regional Conference of Psychology – 2009 (SEERCP2009) “Southeastern Europe Looking Ahead: Paradigms, Schools, Needs and Achievements of Psychology in the Region” is to demonstrate the achievements and enhance the capacity-building collaboration of psychologists in the region and the world. SEERCP2009 will allow psychologists representing the countries in the region to share and increase their professional knowledge of what is going on in their countries, to learn about the paradigms, schools, needs and achievements of psychologists across the region and other parts of the world.

SEERCP2009 will invite key speakers who are attractive to psychologists in the region and who are able to transfer their knowledge and experience. The scientific program of the SEERCP2009 will include a number of thematic sessions, workshops and round tables integrated into the Conference meeting, which would allow participants to get to know each other better, to learn new and important techniques, exchange methodologies, and theories.

The Conference will play a substantial role for the capacity-building in the region and will create a platform for dynamic and sustainable cooperation among psychologists in the region in close cooperation with the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), and other international partners.

SEERCP2009 aims at increasing the institutional capacity and networking of psychologists and their professional associations in the region of South Eastern Europe and will close its work with a regional representatives meeting to found a Southeastern European Regional Network of Psychologists and develop its strategy for development and its first action plan till 2015.

The target groups for the SEERCP2009 are all the professional psychologists who have academic interests, academics who work in any area of applied psychology, practitioners, and Master and Ph.D. students of psychology, leaders and officers of the national associations of psychologists from the countries of the region.

SEERCP2009 will encourage psychologists in the region to take more active part in the European and International professional meetings and scientific events.

Regional Conferences of Psychology to date:

Regional Conferences of Psychology (RCPs) are jointly sponsored ventures of IAAP, the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) and the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), and are held every two years in between the large international congresses organized by IAAP and IUPsyS.

The general idea of these cooperative undertakings is to foster the development of psychology in selected regions of the world by increasing communication between scientific researchers and professionals, disseminating psychological knowledge and expertise, and supporting the organization of psychology within the region. Regional Conferences are primarily capacity-building activities where the focus is on the development of individual competence and or of systems. The intent is that Regional Conferences should respond to needs for particular knowledge and skills and be organized to address these needs.

 As the following table shows the first RCP was held in Guangzhou in 1995 and Bulgaria will host the eighth RCP.

 Year                Number           Location                    Organizer

 1995                I                      Guangzhou, China - JING Qicheng

 1997                II                     Mexico City, Mexico - Susan Pick

 1999                III                    Durban, South Africa - Saths Cooper

 2001                IV                    Mumbai, India - Blanche Barnes

 2003                V                     Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Raymond Hamden

 2005                VI                    Bangkok, Thailand - Ubolwanna Pavakanun

 2007                VII                  Amman, Jordan - Adnan Farah

 2009                VIII                 Sofia, Bulgaria - Plamen Dimitrov

Read more about SEERCP2009 initial concept here:  Professor Raymond Fowler  The Birth of a Regional Conference

 Thank you for your interest in SEERCP 2009 !

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Host-organization: The Bulgarian Psychological Society (BPS) in partnership with Sofia University “St.Kliment Ohridski”, The Institute of Psychology – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and  Association of Young Bulgarian Psychologists “4 April”

with the support of official SEERCP 2009 sponsors

The International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)

The International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)

The International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)

The European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (EFPA)

The European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)

 Media Partners: The Bulgarian Journal of Psychology and the Brain and Mind Magazine 

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