[Commpsych] CommPsych Spring Carnival starts tonight at 6.30 with a freebie on youth mental health - then look out for 3 great webinars in Oct-Nov...

Thu Aug 25 16:04:04 AWST 2022

Hi everyone

I have some exciting events in Community Psychology to share with you - make sure you scroll right through the list. Apologies for the short notice on the first item.

First,  this month's APS College of Community Psychologists' next Community of Practice is happening tonight, Thursday, 25 August from 6.30-8pm - it's free, and might be able to be recorded if you can't attend in person - although these sessions are interactive so it's much better to be there live (and Debra is a terrific discussant, as are the other three professors in our upcoming webinars - further down this long email):

Youth mental health research informing community-based practice

Our guest this month will be Professor Debra Rickwood<http://be.psychology.org.au/ls/click?upn=xftCvoRZRbcW1HUP8zfNNCgFYYAutpwGpZmSU01sJL0JYN-2BtLcC0wlBwguMo827urGHFSUxrlkcS30A0Bi0xsA-3D-3DJ5O3_LkNaGjuMCrzJijP9uh5w51wVkQcRLq1ZICyrjgtqsTui9pywWIP6xYEKo4CPODYWPDTr2pk-2Baslgyz3o6EJJMt4yLrIN4Wgk-2BRO6W05RbOMZxp8XFSE4bY0Ht3KnlZmTYWlXAHMwirNJWRdePgQQsdKffPX-2Bv1L3dfO6AM0z1aLqTzRz25-2BII06Y88i-2FABRtaBEMoiq3DfEA-2FtbEPh-2F8NU-2FqvKcheMK8XbQ67Arrspw-3D>, in conversation with Heather Gridley. Debra is Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra and Chief Scientific Advisor for headspace, Australia's National Youth Mental Health Foundation. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and an Academic Member of the College of Community Psychologists. She also served on the APS Board of Directors and on the Public Interest Advisory Group, and was a key contributor to APS position papers and public statements on substance use, gambling, the social determinants of health, and climate change. She was the recipient in 2016 of the APS College of Community Psychologists' Robin Winkler Award for a project designed to inform headspace youth mental health services of how best to ensure that its services were accessible to and inclusive of young people from population groups who often have high levels of need for mental health support but can be marginalised from mainstream services access.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82013411843?pwd=b3crWENRcXpkRkdqbWtucHM5amR3dz09<http://be.psychology.org.au/ls/click?upn=xftCvoRZRbcW1HUP8zfNNLAtVHROHdx0fK9my-2FLw9JrSJBFdmiK6PAJlWhZQ7Ssa2YncHwtpf-2BDuIMj4ZAIR-2BNMc0q8cf8V6S2E-2BuuVm3d-2BALzLuGuPthjtMCaKeB1ZjRMCC_LkNaGjuMCrzJijP9uh5w51wVkQcRLq1ZICyrjgtqsTui9pywWIP6xYEKo4CPODYWPDTr2pk-2Baslgyz3o6EJJMq9eAqAIVI8VWa6zxWPjjH5nCKLdzrKVch70hXTmuSvTEkxAtdfa80LGDxsBaCKcuL4s7OmH5-2BBAPsGP-2FKOOYYkLssrwrNhMMEVkq-2Fl4107mPxQbw511GZBPuZt5Uic6fH6nPJR3czvWD6CK3XwZ9PI-3D>

Meeting ID: 820 1341 1843

Passcode: 935589

Second, our Community Psychology spring carnival showcases an avalanche of professor-led webinars:

(i) The Psychology of Effective Activism

Professor Winnifred Louis (University of Queensland)

Webinar 6 October 2022, 7:00pm-8:30pm AEST

Join Professor Winnifred Louis for an interactive session on the psychology of activism. She will highlight the ABIASCA framework for activating mobilisation and change (Awareness-raising, building sympathy, turning sympathy into intentions, turning intentions into actions, sustaining groups over time, coalition-building, and avoiding opponents' counter mobilisation). Professor Louis will also explore the social drivers of effective collective action across a range of audiences. Please click here for bookings and more information: APS Events: 23328 | APS (psychology.org.au)<http://be.psychology.org.au/ls/click?upn=xftCvoRZRbcW1HUP8zfNNHlKHn-2BRycHmgiAtSqrfIbClpaBhwnRDEfjDBj6xb2zjdSF1_LkNaGjuMCrzJijP9uh5w51wVkQcRLq1ZICyrjgtqsTvUVYceIER-2FUk85t7IgVNU1PcrhQDEZKW3lN1riG7Gko-2BdXqTB3-2F0Wf-2F-2Bvz8I-2FWhCZlNBYEjEp-2F0p2hTDGJ-2FGC672GqqRZJjc9XYDotEAZqBbdGyJOS4gPoD1Qj3q-2FGoo90v-2B0-2B1RJbF1X5k5PnnBkIraAadrSTWoK1FMATXVE8Ne8yj2-2B52UZmpgAfG1FO8Ug-3D>

(ii) Social Connectedness and Health - Unlocking the Social Cure

Prof Alex Haslam (University of Queensland)

Webinar 19 October 2022, 7:00pm-8:30pm AEST

Tackling Australia's most challenging health problem: Identifying, prescribing, and unlocking the social cure

If you are over 50 and you join one social group today you will cut your risk of being diagnosed with depression in the next two years by 24%. With every group membership that that you join after retirement, your quality of life increases by 10%, and your life expectancy increases by about 3%. Group life is an important determinant of well-being and health, yet its importance is rarely discussed, and far less explained. This session will explain how groups exert a profound impact on our psychology and health through their capacity to be internalized within the self as part of our social identity (a sense of the self as ‘we' and ‘us', not just ‘me' and ‘I'). It will show that when this occurs, groups are a gateway not only to social support but also to a sense of meaning, belonging, purpose, and agency - factors that in turn have powerful consequences for our psychological and social functioning. They also play a key role in tackling epidemics of anxiety and loneliness that are a scourge of contemporary Western society. Professor Haslam discusses how these ideas can be translated into practice through targeted social prescribing and a novel theory-derived intervention: Groups 4 Health.  Please click here for bookings and more information: APS Events: 23331 | APS (psychology.org.au)<http://be.psychology.org.au/ls/click?upn=xftCvoRZRbcW1HUP8zfNNHlKHn-2BRycHmgiAtSqrfIbD1PiiEnx2nn8H-2BUX-2Fn06rPeZNA_LkNaGjuMCrzJijP9uh5w51wVkQcRLq1ZICyrjgtqsTvUVYceIER-2FUk85t7IgVNU1PcrhQDEZKW3lN1riG7Gko-2BvzgyqCnyQvZl7LPkDXmdqsSS6gON8YKLuYYoiJ4Q23xPtZZht1tOG7u6S8Ax20Uwh9dy2H5A6xKK6GnCAoumGMH2cVin3vr7sQ9DTgahxk-2FEQwt8EPe6rVYlJP8XhY89D8J6vUFjolDWBj2YewnxM-3D>

(iii) Wellness, Fairness, and Worthiness: Psychosocial Foundations for the Common Good

Professor Isaac Prilleltensky (University of Miami, USA)

Webinar 8 November 2022, 12 noon - 1.30pm AEST (to allow for the US time difference)

While behavioral and health sciences have mainly been concerned with the private good, there is an urgent need to understand and foster the collective good. Without a coherent framework for the common good, it will be extremely difficult to prevent and manage crises such as pandemics, illness, climate change, poverty, discrimination, injustice, and inequality, all of which affect marginalized populations disproportionally. While frameworks for personal well-being abound in psychology, psychiatry and counselling, conceptualizations of collective well-being are scarce. Our search for foundations of the common good resulted in the identification of three psychosocial goods: wellness, fairness, and worthiness, which concurrently advance personal, relational, and collective value. They also represent basic human motivations, have considerable explanatory power, exist at multiple ecological levels, and have significant transformative potential. Professor Prilleltensky will use empirical evidence to show how justice leads to experiences of worthiness, which enhances wellness.

Please click here for bookings and more information: APS Events: 23329 | APS (psychology.org.au)<http://be.psychology.org.au/ls/click?upn=xftCvoRZRbcW1HUP8zfNNHlKHn-2BRycHmgiAtSqrfIbBWmYh1ngeIc9Zxu-2BvobSRfnIK7_LkNaGjuMCrzJijP9uh5w51wVkQcRLq1ZICyrjgtqsTvUVYceIER-2FUk85t7IgVNU1PcrhQDEZKW3lN1riG7GkozyczrJmxYpR66Y2blMFqyk608jLOrMmzWUMIqfbu5ec-2FAjamg7WYySpv-2BxX-2BcJUmQ7erFpH-2FOb4vvn3ky9OKeOpgenBNcDdB7MqwdERbaB1nvUgB4lqnH-2Bc6N-2FnKfJdcL-2FD5WUZEm2gHLtcUcKDBac-3D>

Enjoy!

Heather

Heather Gridley

Honorary Fellow

College of Health and Biomedicine

Victoria University

Melbourne, Australia

E: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au<mailto:heather.gridley at vu.edu.au>

Ph: +61 419113731

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