CPA: The First Ten Years.

Wright, Mary J.

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“…En cuarto lugar, la SIP se funda en un tiempo en el que se produce una avanzada de la profesionalización del psicólogo. Aunque en Estados Unidos y Canadá, la profesionalización ya tenía un largo camino recorrido, no obstante, el período de posguerra significó una profundización de los quehaceres profesionales del psicólogo en sendos países (véase Adair, 1999;Benito, 2009;Benjamin, 2001;Camfield, 1973;Cook, 1965;Conway, 2010;Gallegos, 2010a;Klappenbach, 2003;McGovern, 1992;Sánchez-González, 2003;Wright, 1974).…”

Section: La Fundación De La Sipunclassified

Historia de la Psicología Interamericana: Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (1951)

Gallegos¹

2012

Psychologia Latina

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The purpose of the present article is to justify the history of the Interamerican Psychology regarding the foundation of the Interamerican Society of Psychology (ISP), in 1951. Although other studies had addressed the development of the Interamerican Psychology, none of them had justified its history. In that sense, the present work addresses the following issues: 1) the foundation of the ISP; 2) the historical context of this foundation; 3) the more important outcomes of this foundation; 4) the factors that justify the history of the Interamerican Psychology. In sum, the present work suggests that the history of the Interamenrican Psychology is the history of the connections and the creation of the ISP was the key element that promoted those connections.

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Historia de la Psicología Interamericana: Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (1951)

Gallegos¹

2012

Psychologia Latina

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“…But the ties to the US were substantial. Most psychologists in Canada were members of the APA, which they had helped found, and the APA had held its 1931 annual meeting in Toronto (M. J. Wright, 1974, p. 113).…”

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“…Because it was clear that the US could not be counted on for quick entrance into the anticipated war (WWII) that was about to engulf Britain and thereby involve Canada, the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) was formed in 1939 (M. J. Wright, 1974), for the express purpose of mobilizing and coordinating the participation of Canadian psychologists in war‐related research and psychological services. Their wartime contributions were primarily through testing, personnel selection, and training research.…”

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“…The contributions of psychologists were so impressive that the Defence Research Board thought it useful to continue funding psychological research for more than a decade after the end of the war. Social psychologists had prominently contributed: A. S. Bois, soon to become an industrial psychologist, worked on troop morale; Jack Irving (1943) contributed to the understanding of rumour transmission, and J. D. Ketchum administered the research section of the newly created Wartime Information Bureau (M. J. Wright, 1974). Specialty identification as social, clinical, or applied psychologists was not as sharply defined as it is today, but the war and the return to peacetime changed much of that.…”

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The origins and development of social psychology in Canada

Adair

2005

Int J Psychol

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This article provides an overview of the historical events, significant personalities, and contextual influences that have shaped the development of social psychology in Canada. For much of its history, Canada and its closest neighbour, the US, have shared similar social problems and, for a time, even research funding. Although the influence of the US has been imprinted on Canadian research and theory, Canadian social psychology has also developed its own discipline with a focus on culture and explicitly Canadian social issues that makes it distinct from that of the US. This account reveals how Canadian social psychology developed and where US influence has been felt. Emerging from its roots within philosophy, Canadian psychology began as a decidedly applied discipline; but following its widely acknowledged contributions to the Canadian war effort it was basic research that ultimately received the academic appointments and financial support. Social psychology was often invisible; to be found, if at all, only on the fringe of both these early developments. In the 1970s, the Canadian government's decision to fund social research, and a period of exceptional growth of higher education, contributed to the discipline's emergence. Substantial numbers of experimental social psychologists imported from the United States raised questions about the Canadian content of their teaching and research, but their perspective and numbers created the critical mass needed for advancement of our discipline. With the help of a partly government‐imposed Canadianization of academia and a blending of these imported researchers with the culture‐oriented researchers trained in Canada, social psychology evolved into the mature, distinctive discipline that exists in Canada today. Canada has a strong, self‐sustaining national disicpline, that in accord with its size makes substantial contributions to the world of psychology and to the social psychology of North America. This developmental history describes how these accomplishments have been realized.

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“…A series of negotiations that would enable CPA member candidates to become eligible for die ABEPP diploma was concluded by 1949. The Americans agreed diat CPA members would be accepted if, among odier tilings, die by-laws of die CPA contained an article regarding etiiical practices and provided ethical controls for its members comparable to die provisions of die by-laws of die APA (Wright, 1974).…”

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A critical history of CPA's various code of ethics for psychologists (1939–1986).

Dunbar¹

1998

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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Codes of ethics are historical products of the professionalization process; the form and content of codes of ethics develop within the specific historical context of the professionalization process of the occupational group for which they are written. During the 1950s and 1960s, the CPA's decisions regarding adoption of a code of ethics were centred on two major professionalization needs; namely, to secure a market niche for 'psychologists' as this was defined by CPA and to sustain this image as the basis for continuing funding for related psychological research. Different historical factors resulted in the decision by CPA, in the 1970s, to produce a made-in-Canada code of ethics. These were a) the need of CPA to produce a document of professional self-regulation that recognized problems faced by psychological practitioners employed within various organizational structures, and (b) organizational problems of the CPA related to disciplinary unity and achievement of a national leadership role. The results of this critical historical analysis confirm the importance of codes of professional ethics as strategies of professionalization as hypothesized byjohanne Louw in 1990. A CRITICAL APPROACH TO WRITING A HISTORY OF CODES OF ETHICSProfessional groups typically view their codes of ethics primarily as regulatory devices to protect the public from incompetent and unethical practices by certified members of the profession. However, some authors in philosophy, psychology, sociology and history (e.g., Bucher and

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CPA: The First Ten Years.

Cited by 27 publications

References 13 publications

Historia de la Psicología Interamericana: Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (1951)

Historia de la Psicología Interamericana: Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (1951)

The origins and development of social psychology in Canada

A critical history of CPA's various code of ethics for psychologists (1939–1986).

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