FRIDAY 	PROGRAM SCHEDULE

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Friday, 9:15—10:30

Jonathan D. Raskin

State University of New York at New Paltz

THE EVOLUTION OF CONSTRUCTIVISM

 Description to follow

WORKSHOP

Friday, 10:45—12:15

University of Memphis

A CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH TO INFERTILITY: GRIEF, SEXUALITY AND MEANING RECONSTRUCTION

The discovery of infertility can lead to a host of profound and challenging intrapersonal, relational, sexual and existential issues. How one goes about coping with these issues and reconstructing perceptions of fertility and predictability once these difficulties are encountered, can be clearly understood within a constructivist/humanistic epistemological framework. This presentation will examine issues of grief and sexuality as they relate to a diagnosis of infertility and its aftermath.

WORKSHOP

Friday, 10:45—12:15

California State University San Marcos

CONSTRUCTIVE-ISMS: A CONVERSATION ON SOME CONSTRUCTIVIST CONTEXTS

Constructivism emerged from and operates within a context of convivial or complementary philosophical positions. Comprehending, applying, and embodying constructivism might benefit from periodically considering some implications of positions such as Sophism, Skepticism, Conceptualism, Positivism, Empiricism, Rationalism, Existentialism, Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Buddhism and their potential contributions to elaborating a constructivist agenda.

PAPER

Friday, 10:45—11:15

Miami University

CONSTRUCTIONS OF HEALING: EXPLORING THE COUNTER-NARRATIVES OF RECOVERY FROM THE PSYCHIATRIC SURVIVOR MOVEMENT

This study seeks to critically examine the medical model’s master narrative of recovery in relation to alternative constructions of healing as told by several psychiatric survivors. By documenting these oral histories I hope to raise awareness within the field of clinical psychology about the psychiatric survivor movement and counter-narratives of recovery.

PAPER

Friday, 11:15—11:45

University of North Texas

AN EXERCISE IN STORY REPAIR: TESTING A GUIDED WRITTEN DISCLOSURE PROTOCOL FOR STRESSFUL EVENTS

This study used four coached writing sessions to help participants put their remembrance of a stressful event into coherent narrative form. Relations among narrative coherence, emotional well-being, and physical health test the proposition that narrative structuring is a primary active ingredient in the effectiveness of commonly used trauma writing regimens.

PAPER

Friday, 11:45—12:15

University of North Texas

CONSTRUING A THEISTIC ROLE RELATIONSHIP: RELIGIOUS COPING IN RELATION TO STRESS AND DEPRESSION

This study assessed how persons construed their role in relation to “God” or their preferred deity, and evaluated the implications of that construction on how they handle stress and experience depression. The relations between role types and personality variables will also be discussed.