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Due to requests, we have recently extended the submission deadline to February 21, 2016.
The Extended Submission Deadline is Sunday, February 21, 2015.
Four presentation categories are available – Symposium, Paper Presentation, Poster Presentation, and Rapid Paper Presentation.
Visit our Call for Papers page for further information.
We look forward to your submissions.
We are delighted to announce that Laurence J. Kirmayer from McGill University, Canada will be the Walter J. Lonner Distinguished Invited Lecturer at IACCP2016.
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC is James McGill Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. He is Editor-in-Chief of Transcultural Psychiatry, and Director of the Culture & Mental Health Research Unit at the Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, where he conducts research on culturally responsive mental health services, the mental health of indigenous peoples, and the anthropology of psychiatry. He founded and directs the annual Summer Program and Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry at McGill. His past research includes studies on cultural consultation, pathways and barriers to mental health care for immigrants and refugees, somatization in primary care, and indigenous concepts of mental health and resilience. Current projects include: culturally-based, family-centered mental health promotion for Aboriginal youth; the use of cultural formulation in cultural consultation; and the place of culture in global mental health. He edited the volumes, Understanding Trauma: Integrating Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge University Press), Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada (University of British Columbia Press), Cultural Consultation: Encountering the Other in Mental Health Care (Springer), DSM-5 Handbook for the Cultural Formulation Interview (APPI), and Re-Visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience and Global Mental Health (Cambridge). He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. He has received a CIHR senior investigator award, a presidential commendation for dedication in advancing cultural psychiatry from the Canadian Psychiatric Association, as well as both the Creative Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement awards from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.
We are delighted to announce that Junko Tanaka-Matsumi from Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan will be giving a Keynote presentation at IACCP2016.
Junko Tanaka-Matsumi is a professor in the Department of Integrated Psychological Science at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya-City, Japan. She is also professor emeritus of psychology at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, where she taught clinical psychology for 20 years until 2000.
Tanaka-Matsumi received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and was an East-West Center (Honolulu) scholarship student. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and an associate editor of Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and consulting editor for International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, as well as other Japanese journals. She has published on culture and psychopathology, functional analytic approaches to cross-cultural therapy, and school-based cognitive behavioral research and consultation to promote children’s classroom adjustment and learning in Japan.
We are delighted to announce that Ed Diener from the University of Illinois will be giving a Keynote presentation at IACCP2016.
Ed Diener is the Joseph R. Smiley Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois. He received his doctorate at the University of Washington in 1974, and has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois for the past 36 years. Dr. Diener was the president of the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the International Positive Psychology Association. Diener was the editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and the editor of Journal of Happiness Studies. He is the founding editor of Perspectives on Psychological Science. Diener has over 300 publications, with about 200 being in the area of the psychology of well-being.
Dr. Diener is a fellow of five professional societies. Professor Diener is listed as one of the most highly cited psychologists by the Institute of Scientific Information, with over 30,500 citations to his credit. He won the Distinguished Researcher Award from the International Society of Quality of Life Studies, the first Gallup Academic Leadership Award, and the Jack Block Award for Personality Psychology. Dr. Diener won several teaching awards, including the Oakley-Kundee Award for Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Illinois. With over 50 publications he is the most published author in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Professor Diener’s research focuses on the measurement of well-being; temperament and personality influences on well-being; theories of well-being; income and well-being; and cultural influences on well-being. He has edited three recent books on subjective well-being, and a 2005 book on multi-method measurement in psychology. Diener just published a popular book on happiness with his son Robert Biswas-Diener (Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth) as well as a book on policy uses of accounts of well-being with Richard Lucas, Ulrich Schimmack, and John F. Helliwell (Well-Being for Public Policy). A multivolume collection of his most influential works in the area of subjective well-being will be published this year (The Collected Works of Ed Diener) as well as a book on international differences in well-being, which he edited in conjunction with Daniel Kahneman and John F. Helliwell (International Differences in Well-Being).