ITP Attends and Presents at 2008 American Psychological Association Annual Conference
ITP had a strong presence at the 2008 APA Convention, held in Boston, Massachussetts. In addition to all the presentations and poster sessions listed below, the hospitality suite for the Humanistic Division 32 was abuzz on Friday night, with interesting conversation, a great view, and many luminaries in attendance. Kathleen Wall also chaired presentation of awards for the Humanistic Division, and Jan Fisher and Rosemarie Anderson hosted a talk on Intuitive Inquiry.
As Director of Clinical Training, Jan Fisher represented the school at the annual meeting of the National Council for Schools of Professional Psychology, staying abreast of best practices in clinical training. We practically monopolized the poster session, "Humanizing an Inhumane World," with several recent graduates and faculty featured:
- Shani Robins, Ph.D. (Core Faculty): Wisdom, Socioemotional Intelligence, and Spiritual Intelligence in Educational Leaders
- Christopher Dryer, Ph.D. (Core Faculty), et al: Intentional Ordeals: Spiritual Consequences Reported by Practitioners of Sadomasochism
- Julie P. Macecevic, Ph.D. : Phenomenological Study of Psychotherapists' Transpersonal Embodied Experiences in Therapeutic Relationship
- Elizabeth Maier, Ph.D. : Narrative Scrapbooking: Cocreating Nonverbal Stories With Bereaved and Nonspecific Adults
- Joachim Sehrbrock PhD: Treatment Planning Across Integral, Humanistic, Transpersonal, and Other Therapeutic Orientations
- Ivana Steigman MD, Ph.D. : Stages and Meaning of Death Awareness Development
Christopher Dryer (1st author Yosi Amram) presented a paper titled Integrated Spiritual Intelligence Scale: Development and Preliminary Validation at a session on Patterns of Spirituality & Religiosity, where he gave a compelling argument for the validity of his well-developed scale.
Rosemarie Anderson participated in a lively discussion at a symposium called Humanizing Psychological Research---Five Approaches to Qualitative Analysis Interrelating, where she presented Intuitive Inquiry as one of the five approaches.
David Lukoff was very busy at the convention, with a paper session (Integrating Spirituality Into Recovery From Mental Disorders), a symposium (DSM-V and the Religious and Spiritual Problem V-Code), and a continuing education workshop (Spiritual Competency and Cultural Sensitivity).
For more information on these talks and poster sessions, see the APA website at www.apa.org, and go to "Annual Convention. "
