________________________________________________________________ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 THE INTERPSYCH NEWSLETTER MARCH, 1995 ________________________________________________________________ SECTION E: CALENDAR ------------------------------------------------------------- | For free listing of your conference or event, please send us| | the following information: dates of event, title, sponsor, | | location, continuing education credits (if applicable), and | | the name, e-mail address, physical address, and phone number| | of a contact person. All notices should be sent by the | | first Friday of the month to (udipn@badlands.nodak.edu). | ------------------------------------------------------------- *MARCH* March 23-25, The 18th Annual Congress of Psychology Students, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Abstract submission forms can be obtained by writing to: Mary McClean, Dept. Behavioural and Communication Sciences, University of Ulster at Jordonstown, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT37 0QB. March 26-28, Second Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA. All conference information is available on the World Wide Web at: http://neuroscience.ucdavis.edu/CNS/CNS.html. If you do not have access to a WWW client, send e-mail to: fabatt@ucdavis.edu *APRIL* April 3-7, The Tenth Biennial Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science organized by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior. Halifax Hall of Residence & Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, ENGLAND. Contact: Conference programme chair, John Hallam, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 5 Forrest Hill, Edinburgh EH1 2QL, SCOTLAND. Phone: + 44 31, 650 3097, FAX: + 44 31 650 6899. (john@aifh.edinburgh.ac.uk). April 6-9, 15th National Conference of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, Pittsburgh, PA USA. The theme of this year's conference is, "Anxiety Disorders: Impact on Quality of Life." Contact: Anxiety Disorders Association of American, 6000 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, Maryland 20852 USA or telephone (301) 231-5484 or (301) 231-9350; fax (301) 231-7392. April 7-9, The Ego, the Suffering, the End of Suffering. Paris, France. CONTACT: Rambana Institute for Self-Realization, P.O. Box 131 ATLIT 30300, ISRAEL, Tel. 972.4.984.28.12 fax 972.4.984.26.63. April 28-30, 1995, Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR'95), Seattle, WA, USA, Sponsored by ACM SIGSOFT. The objective of this symposium is to provide a forum for academics and practitioners in the areas related to software reusability to exchange research results, development activities, and application experience reports. Unpublished and original state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice papers relevant to the symposium themes, as well as panel and tutorial proposals, are solicited. Contact: Mansour Zand (zand@unocss.unomaha.edu). *MAY* May 4-5, First National Conference on Total Quality Management in Mental Health, St. Louis, MO, USA. Keynote speaker: Dr. Glenn Laffel, founding editor of "Quality Management in Health Care." For registration information, contact: Dr. Gary V. Sluyter, Mental Health Leadership Training Program, MIMH, (314) 644-8505, (MIMHGary@Mizzou1.Missouri.edu). May 11, History of Psychiatry Group: The Search for Somatic Therapies in Pychiatry. Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Allegheny General Hospital and Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. CME: TBA. Contact: Jason Rosenstock, M.D., jasonr@vms.cis.pitt.edu, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara St., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 412-422-0720. May 23-25, International Conference on Research and Practice in Attention Deficit Disorders, Jerusalem, Israel. Division of Special Education of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and B'Yahad, the Israeli national parent's education and support organization for families of children with Attention Deficit Disorders. Scholarly papers are currently being solicited. Tom Gumpel, Ph.D., Chair, Scientific Committee, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (TGUMPEL@vms.huji.ac.il). May 23-30, Actual and Prognosed Mental Health Disorders After the Chernobyl Nuclear Catastrophe, Kiev, Ukraine. Organized by Physicians of Chernobyl Association, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Scientific Centre of Radiation Medicine, Ukrainian Ministry of Public Health, Ukrainian Ministry of Affairs Affected by Chernobyl. Sponsored by World Health Organization, International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation, Commission of European Communities. Contact: Professor Angelina Nyagu (abondar@gluk.apc.org). *JUNE* June 3, Vulnerabilities Of Psychologists As Expert Witnesses, Professional Continuing Education Program In Psychology, Arizona Psychological Association and the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, USA. Contact: Dr. Bonnie Gray (GRAY@MC.MARICOPA.EDU) Phone: (602) 461-7181. June 6-15, 1995 Workshop for Nurse Researchers--Biofeedback Bioinstrumentation: Uses in research, Seattle, WA, USA. Sponsored by University of Washington School of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education and Physiodata. Contact: CNE, 206-543-1047. June 8-10, Workshop on Neural Modeling of Cognitive Brain Disorders, Maryland, USA. The detailed workshop program, registration and submission information are now available via anonymous ftp. To ftp the current information: ftp ftp.cs.umd.edu; Name: anonymous; Password: your e-mail address; cd pub/users/ruppin; get workshop_info.Z; quit; unix) uncompress workshop_info.Z. June 21-24, Twelfth Annual International Conference in Literature-and-Psychology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). Please send your title and a 150-word abstract to Professor Andrew Gordon at IPSA (agordon@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu). Contact: Norman N. Holland (nnh@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu). June 27-29, Summer Institute: Reconnecting At-Risk Youth, Bellevue, WA, USA. Sponsored by University of School of Nursing Continuing Nursing Education. Contact: CNE, 206-543-1047. *JULY* July 5-8, Tenth International Conference on Mathematical and Computer Modelling and Scientific Computing. Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. Authors are invited to contribute their work for presentation at the conference in the form of one-page abstracts typed single-space before 15 January 1995. Decisions on selection will be promptly communicated to the authors by FAX not later than 31 February 1995. Abstracts may be submitted by FAX by dialing to U.S.A.: (314)-364-3351. July 10-13, "20th International Conference on Improving University Teaching". Hong Kong. For instructions on submitting a paper or proposal and further information about the conference, e-mail (iut@umuc.umd.edu). July 12-21, The Ninth Summer Workshop for the Development of Intercultural Coursework at Colleges and Universities. East-West Center. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. A workshop for college and university faculty who wish to develop courses in intercultural and international topics. Coordinator: Richard W. Brislin, Program on Education and Training, East-West Center, 1777 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96848. Fax (808) 944-7070. (brislinr@ewc). July 13-14, A National Conference--Forging the Future of Advanced Practice Psychosocial Nursing, Seattle, WA, USA. Sponsored by University of Washington School of Nursing Department of Psychosocial Nursing. Endorsed by Association of Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses. Contact: CNE, 206-543-1047. July 13-16, Teaching Health: Therapy and Prevention for the 21st Century, Psychology of Mind Training Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. NBCC credits. Contact: (gordon@well.sf.ca.us), POMTI, Postal Drawer 1100, LaConner, WA 98257, Call: Terri Cunningham (800)781-2066. July 17-19, Understanding the Social World: Towards an Integrative Approach. Huddersfield, UK. University of Huddersfield. Contact: David Nightingale, (social-conference@hud.ac.uk) or (D.J.Nightingale@hud.ac.uk). July 28-29, Infant Psychotherapy: An Overview and a Unifying View, The Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. CONTACT: Seattle Institute for Psychoanalysis, 4020 East Madison Street, Seattle, WA 98112, (206) 328-5315. July 31-August 4, The Fourth Annual Workshop for the Development of Expertise in Cultural Diversity. East-West Center. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. A program for cross-cultural trainers who will work with newly developed training modules in the areas of international business, health care, counseling, mediation, leadership, and workplace diversity. Coordinator: Richard W. Brislin. Program on Education and Training, East-West Center, 1777 East-West Rd., Honolulu, HI. 96848. fax (808) 944-7070. (brislinr@ewc). *AUGUST* August 8-11, The Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences Fifth Annual Conference. Adelphi University, Garden City, New York. CONTACT: Jeffrey Goldstein, Ph.D., Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530, phone: (516) 877-4637; fax: (516) 877-4607; (goldstein@sable.adelphi.edu). *SEPTEMBER* September 8-11, British Psychological Society Developmental Psychology Section Annual Conference. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. CONTACT: Dr David Warden (CONFERENCE), Centre for Research into Interactive Learning, Department of Psychology University of Strathclyde, 40 George St., Glasgow G1 1QE, UK, Telephone: +44 141-552-4400 ext. 2576/4390, Fax: +44 141-552-6948, (CHHS47@ccsun.strath.ac.uk). September 10-13, Second International Conference on Survey and Statistical Computing, London, UK. The Association for Survey Computing. Interested contributors should send a brief (maximum 500 word) abstract, including title, relevent keywords and an indication of the the parallel session into which the paper would best fit, to: Diana Elder. ASC, PO Box 60, Chesham, Bucks HP5 3QH, tel/fax: 01494 793033; int: +44 1494 793033, (asc@sx.ac.uk). *NOVEMBER* November 1-5, Internal Evaluation Conference: Developing a world perspective. The first evaluation conference. Vancouver, Canada. Jointly sponsored by American Evaluation Assoc and the Canadian Evaluation Soc. Contact: John McLaughlin, President, American Evaluation Assoc., Research and Evaluation Branch, PO Box 6Q, Richmond Virginia 23216, (804) 371-8593 (fax). ______________________________________________________________ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 4 THE INTERPSYCH NEWSLETTER MARCH,1994 ______________________________________________________________ SECTION F: ANNOUNCEMENTS ********* * INDEX * ********* 1. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 2. SPRING 1995 COLLOQUIUM SERIES: CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS BOSTON UNIVERSITY 3. PSYCHOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS ============================================================== 1. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TEACHING MATHEMATICS: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ============================================================== A conference, workshop, and seminar for teachers, administrators, graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Michigan. Americans have few opportunities to explore in depth what is happening in mathematics instruction in different cultures. This program brings internationally known experts to the University of Michigan campus to describe what is occurring in six cultures, including countries that educate their students to a high level of mathematics competence. Lecturers from China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, South Africa, and the United States will participate. In addition to lectures, ideas will be illustrated by examining the curricula, viewing videotapes, and reviewing teaching materials. The program consists of three parts: Conference. The three day conference is open to educators, psychologists, administrators, graduate and undergraduate students, and persons interested in gaining an overview of how teachers are trained, how they teach mathematics, and what their lives are like in different cultures. Workshop. The five day workshop will be devoted to intensive presentations of contemporary teaching practices in the various cultures. Each lecturer will be responsible for half a day and ample time will be allowed for interaction and discussion. Seminar. The five day seminar is for graduate and undergraduate students interested in continuing the study of the psychological aspects of mathematics instruction for an additional week immediately following the workshop. Conference: June 23-25, 1995 Workshop: June 26-30, 1995 Seminar: July 3-7, 1995 For more information, contact: Debbie Apsley, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 E. University, Room 1004, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (313) 747-3924, FAX (313) 764-3520, E-mail apsley@umich.edu ============================================================== 2. SPRING 1995 COLLOQUIUM SERIES: CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS BOSTON UNIVERSITY ============================================================== March 24: ON THE GEOMETRY OF PERCEIVED SPACE Professor James Todd, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University April 7: HOW DOES THE BRAIN GENERATE SENSORY-MOTOR BEHAVIOR? A COMPUTATIONAL FIELD THEORY FOR CONTROLLING RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS Dr. Lance Optican, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, NIH April 21: PARALLEL CEREBRAL MEMORY SYSTEMS Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH April 28: STATISTICAL METHODS IN LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION Larry Gillick, Dragon Systems All Talks on Fridays at 2:30 PM; Refreshments at 2:00 PM in Room 101, 2 Cummington Street, Boston ============================================================== 3. PSYCHOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS ============================================================== I am part of a multidisciplinary research and teaching group based at the School of Nursing Studies and the Department of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester in the UK. We recently established a training course in psychosocial interventions for serious mental illness which is open to all the mental health professions. The course includes a module on psychological methods for the management of psychotic symptoms. If anyone is interested in learning about this approach, I would recommend the following references: Selwood et al (1994) Advances in the psychological management of positive symptoms of schizophrenia. International review of Psychiatry, 6, 201-215. Kingdon et al (1993) Cognitive behaviour therapy of schizophrenia: The amenability of delusions and hallucinations to reasoning. British Journal of Psychiatry, 164, 581-587. Tarrier et al (1993) A controlled trial of two cognitive behavioural methods of treating drug-resistant residual psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients: 1 Outcome. British Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 524-532. Best wishes, Stuart Lancashire Senior Research Fellow School of Nursing Studies Manchester University UK. (SLANCASH@FS1.NU.MAN.AC.UK)