Issue 30: 2 July, 2018 The IAAP Bulletin The International Association of Applied Psychology Prague, Czech Republic, Site of the 32nd International Congress of Psychology ICP 2020: Psychology in the 21st Century: Open Minds, Societies, World. July 19th 2020—July 24th 2020. Editor: Valerie Hearn, USA Email for submissions: vchearn@comcast net APNL_C1-C4.indd 1 05/05/18 1:27 PM Table of Contents Editorial .................................................................................................................................. 1 President’s Corner .................................................................................................................. 2 Presidential Reminiscences ................................................................................................. 21 President-Elect Christine Roland-Levy ...............................................................................46 Contributions of Psychology to Defeating Terrorism .........................................................47 Division News ...................................................................................................................... 49 Conference announcement ...................................................................................................71 UN Report ............................................................................................................................ 88 Report from India .............................................................................................................. 139 Report on Africa ................................................................................................................ 140 Commentary ....................................................................................................................... 144 APNL_C2-C3.indd 1 01/06/18 6:29 PM Editorial My introduction to IAAP began thanks to my dear friend and mentor, Ray Fowler. He and I were members of a small organization called the Society of Psychologists in Management (SPIM). SPIM was made up of lovely people who were educated to become psychologists, but who ended up being managers or consultants to managers. I was no longer consulting to managers, so I was looking for another organization to join. I went to Ray and asked him what he thought, and “IAAP” sprang immediately to his lips. So, I joined. I Valerie Hearn, Editor, was the newsletter editor for SPIM at that time. Somehow I was appointed IAAP Bulletin IAAP newsletter editor (actually co-editor with Dennis Trent). I’m not sure how it happened, but I’m pretty sure that Ray worked his special magic behind the scenes. All of this took place in 2006, and my learning curve began then at the conference in Athens. Presently, it is 2018. I hope that I have learned the job by now, as I am being put out to pasture (could be worse). This is the last paper edition of the Bulletin before you will find it on IAAP’s website. It’s “a collector”, to quote our President-Elect, Christine Roland-Levy, so I hope that you all collect it. What you will be collecting includes “The President’s Corner” which describes just some of the improvements that the Officers and the Board have accomplished since the beginning of Janel Gauthier’s Presidential term in office four years ago. Following close on the heels of President Janel is a Past President, Mike Knowles. Especially for you student members, this is a fascinating (and funny) account of how Mike started out as a student and morphed into a professor and also the President of our Association. And then...we have our President-Elect who has written a letter to all Members. Joining IAAP gives you many opportunities. My favorite opportunity has been meeting and connecting with people (psychologist people) from all over the world. Our conferences and congresses are the best. (There are several announced and reported on in this Bulletin). There are Regional Conferences and various other conferences to attend in between the Congresses that happen every four years. Also, in this Bulletin there is a very timely interview called “Contribution of psychology to the challenge of terrorism.” The opportunity to join a group of like-minded Psychologists is yours when you join one or more Divisions. And there are many other opportunities to serve. Use whatever you are good at to contrib- ute to our wonderful IAAP. That’s what I did. I want to thank everyone who has contributed to my industry and enjoyment in editing the Bulletin. This includes everyone who has sent me articles, and at the top of this list are the people who sent me articles regularly. Thank you all very much. To conclude: Not only am I smiling, but I’m working on conjuring up my blue fog. (You have to read to the end of this Bulletin to comprehend that.) 1 President’s Corner We have done well together - Thank you all! Dear IAAP Members, My term as President of IAAP will end at the end of the International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP) to be held in Montreal on June 26– 30, 2018. So, as the present issue of the IAAP Bulletin (July 2018) will be distributed toward the end of June or early July, it means that this is my very last column for the Bulletin as President. Janel Gauthier, In this article, I wish to pay tribute and express my profound gratitude to all President of IAAP those who gave so much of their time, energy and creativity during my Presidential term from 2014–2018. I also want to summarize the main initiatives and achievements over the past four years. I hope the picture it paints as a whole does justice to the vigour and vitality of IAAP and confirms that we are all members of an Association of which we can be justifiably proud. GOVERNANCE Good governance is key to the success of an organization. New and effective governance practices were introduced to improve decision-making, connect IAAP – and its Board – to its membership, and improve the financial stability of IAAP and its ability to weather a crisis. Among other things, new modes of communication were introduced to make sure the members of the Executive Commit- tee (EC) and those of the Board Directors (BoD) are kept engaged between face-to-face meetings. For example, the EC had online meetings almost every other month and the BoD had online brief- ings before considering some motions. Furthermore, motions were introduced by e-mail and voted on between meetings. Finally, the governance of IAAP was strengthened by appointing three addi- tional members to the Executive Committee, namely an Information Technology Coordinator (Mil- ton Hakel) a Divisions Coordinator (Lyn Littlefield), and a Communications Coordinator (Christina Sue-Chan). These appointments were made on the basis of issues identified by the Task Force on Communications and the Task Force on Strategic Goals for IAAP in 2014 in those areas and in need of special attention. Two new committees were established: The United Nations (UN) Policy Advisory Committee and the Committee for the Advanced Research Training Seminars (ARTS). The former was created in response to the need for IAAP to provide scientific information through its Divisions for the benefit of aiding decision makers at the UN in formulating policy regarding its 17 sustainable development goals. The latter was created after a review of the ARTS program in 2015–2016 which is now based on a new training model and run entirely by IAAP. The IAAP Constitution was amended to modify the number and the length of terms of office of the members of the EC and the BoD as recommended by the Task Force on Terms of Office, Renewal, Succession and Rejuvenation of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors in a report submitted to the BoD in 2014. The number of years or terms one can serve as an EC member is now limited to 8 consecutive years or two consecutive terms, not counting the years or the terms as presidential officers. The number of consecutive years one can serve as BoD member is now limited 2 to 10 years, including years of service as Member-at-Large, Division President and Division Presi- dent-Elect. The rules of procedure for the creation of Divisions were revised and a set of new rules providing for the creation of Interest Groups in addition to the creation of Divisions were approved by the BoD in 2016. Under the Constitution as amended in 2016, the creation of an interest group is now a prerequisite to establishing a division. A set of new rules of procedure for the elections of IAAP Division Presidents-Elect and other Offi- cers were approved by the BoD in 2016. It was the outcome of two years of consultation with Divisions. FINANCES Keeping accurate financial records through proper bookkeeping and accounting is an essential part of running an organisation such as IAAP. It is crucial to its growth and survival. Without proper bookkeeping, an organisation runs the risk of crashing into a wall, particularly as the organisation grows and the level of activity increases, which is the case of IAAP. There was a need for IAAP to update and streamline its accounting and bookkeeping system. An accounting software was selected and implemented. IAAP Treasurer Lourdes Munduate, with the support of IAAP Information Technology Coordinator Milton Hakel, implemented in 2015 a computerized accounting and bookkeeping system based on “generally accepted accounting principles” (G.A.A.P.), an international convention of good accounting practices. Lourdes Munduate’s prudence combined with the expanding influence of IAAP’s journals (Applied Psychology: An International