“Opportunities and Challenges in Psychology”
Editor: Martin Drapeau, PhD
Guest Editors:
Maxine Holmqvist, PhD,
and Andrea Piotrowski, PhD
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2016
We strongly encourage associations in psychology (e.g., provincial/territorial psychological associations), and CPA sections, APA Divisions, or other groups to submit papers on what they consider to be the next great opportunities and challenges for psychology in their specific area.
Papers can be submitted in French or in English. LES ARTICLES PEUVENT ETRE SOUMIS EN FRANÇAIS OU EN ANGLAIS.
Canadian Psychology, a Canadian Psychological Association journal published jointly with the American Psychological Association, invites the submission of manuscripts for a special issue on the next great opportunities and challenges for psychology in Canada.
Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:
•Innovation in psychology: What are some of the innovations that we can anticipate in psychological science, practice, education or training?
•Psychology graduates: What careers do current trainees aspire to? What do we know about the work recent psychology graduates are doing? How does the next generation of graduates see the future? What are the working conditions of interns and of young practitioners or early career researchers?
•Legislative and systemic changes: The anticipated impact of legislative and systemic changes affecting psychological research (e.g., recent changes to tri-council funding bodies), psychological practice (e.g., new models of service delivery, legislation defining scopes of practice for different professions), or the education of psychologists.
•Advocacy: What is the current situation for psychologists (e.g., salaries, working conditions, etc.) and what are the areas that we need to focus on to improve the working conditions of psychologists? How have the current structures in universities, schools, hospitals, or organizations (program management, departments of psychology) changed over the years, and what can we expect in the future?
•Opportunities and challenges: What are some of the other challenges and opportunities currently facing psychologists in this country (e.g., cuts to mental health funding, paucity of academic appointments, trend towards interprofessional and team-based care, and ubiquity of online information and demands for service, etc.)?
We encourage submissions from a range of disciplines within psychology including school psychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, counseling psychology, and organizational psychology.
For this special issue, different types of formats of papers will be accepted, including:
•Review and scoping papers (e.g., a systematic review on the competency of psychologists in a given context, a review of past papers and studies on the challenges of practice in psychology, and a review on the unique contribution of psychologists to interdisciplinary practice)
•Original studies—if they are of potential interest to a broad proportion of psychologists (e.g., a survey of psychologists about what they believe to be the next great challenge or success of psychology as a discipline, or a survey of interns or of psychologists about their working conditions)
•Opinion papers, commentaries and letters to the Editor: We will accept articles of no more than 30 pages, including references (systematic reviews may have up to 35 pages or more if needed). All submissions will undergo peer-review.
Manuscripts can be submitted via our online portal. Authors must indicate clearly that their
submission should be considered for this special issue. The deadline for submissions is
February 15, 2016. Papers can be submitted in French or in English.
For questions or further information, please contact the Editor, Dr. Martin Drapeau, at martin.drapeau@mcgill.ca.