Applied Psychology in the International Context: What More Needs to Be Done?

IAAP Handbook of Applied Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 715-731

  Martin, Paul R ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

American Psychological Association (APA) "Research in Action" (formerly "Psychology Matters"), web based compendium of psychological research; Applied psychology in the international context and what more needs to be done; Applied psychology, in its early days dominated by Europe and North America; Early days of applied psychology, terminology being different referred to as "Psychotechnics Congresses"; First experimental psychology laboratory in USA by G. Stanley Hall, a student of Wundt; Global expansion of psychology remarkable, Lunt and Poortinga's (1996) comical observation "...that all the inhabitants of Spain would be psychologists in the early decades,...if the exponential growth of students registering for psychology; International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) organization, working to promote development, representation and advancement of psychology; Organizations, contributing directly to international psychology three main categories; Pawlik and d'Ydewalle, arguing that future challenges for society will be requiring behavioral sciences, and adoption of an international approach; Place of psychology in forwarding society's agenda the Australian experience of setting national research priorities, a food for thought

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EID: 84885569863     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395150.ch32     Document Type: Chapter

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