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  • Lancet Psychiatry – WHO’s Global Clinical Practice Network for mental health

    Publish Date: 13 May, 2015

    An article regarding the WHO’s Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Global Clinical Practice Network (GCPN) has just been published in Lancet Psychiatry.  The article can be accessed at: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366%2815%2900183-2/fulltext. The GCPN was established by WHO’s...Read More

  • IUPsyS offers condolences following acts of terror in Paris

    Publish Date: 10 Jan, 2015

    On behalf of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), I offer heartfelt condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of all those who lost their lives to the heinous acts of terror perpetrated in the heart of France over the last few days.  The murders in Paris represent an unconscionable attack on all...Read More

  • Year End Message From Saths Cooper 2014

    Publish Date: 5 Jan, 2015

    Saths Cooper highlights the IUPsyS activities and impacts during 2014 in his year end messageRead More

  • Call for 2016 Awards Nominations

    Publish Date: 1 Jan, 2015

    The IUPsyS has great pleasure in announcing the call for the 2016 awards nominations. The deadline for submission has been extended to 31 May 2015. The awards are as follows: Major Advancement in Psychological Science Prize Young Investigator Awards Achievement Against the Odds Award Lifetime Career Award Further...Read More

  • IUPsyS and its Partners Conducts Workshop on Psychological Intervention after Disasters (PIAD)

    Publish Date: 15 Dec, 2014

    IUPsyS and its partners conducted a workshop on psychological intervention after disasters (PIAD) on 8 – 11 December 2014 in Mianyang, China. The workshop was the third in a series of similar workshops organized by the Union dealing with psychological research and practice concerning disasters, and how individuals and...Read More

  • The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize 2014 Awarded to the Canadian Geneticist Michael J. Meaney.

    Publish Date: 12 Dec, 2014

    The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize 2014 was awarded to the Canadian geneticist Michael J. Meaney. He has shown how (negative) experiences with the immediate environment in early life exert an influence on human development via "methylation" of the genome - a rather stable but malleable change of the "readability" of particular...Read More

  • Workshop on Psychological Intervention after Disasters (PIAD) on 8 – 11 December 2014 in Mianyang, China.

    Publish Date: 8 Dec, 2014

    The IUPsyS and its partners is conducting a workshop on psychological intervention after disasters (PIAD) on 8 – 11 December 2014 in Mianyang, China. The workshop is the third in a series of similar workshops organized by the Union dealing with psychological research and practice concerning disasters, and how individuals and...Read More

  • World Health Organization: Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders

    Publish Date: 20 Oct, 2014

    IUPsyS is psychology’s international organization in Official Relations with the WHO and these were renewed in January 2014.   In this capacity IUPsyS was appointed to the International Advisory Group (IAG) for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioural Disorders in 2006 and Secretary General, Dr Ann Watts, currently...Read More

  • Call for Nominations for Treasurer

    Publish Date: 14 Oct, 2014

    The International Union of Psychological Science has issued a call for nominations for the position of Treasurer. The Treasurer of the Union works with the Secretary General to carry out the principal financial administrative functions of the Union. Nominations are due by January 31, 2015; however, earlier nominations are...Read More

  • 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded to Neuroscientist and two Psychologists

    Publish Date: 6 Oct, 2014

    Saths Cooper, President of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS), paid tribute to neuroscientist John O'Keefe and psychologists May‐Britt and Edvard I Moser for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering an inner GPS in the brain. O'Keefe's pioneering work in 1971 was...Read More