tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61621584359063523142024-03-05T18:38:10.098-08:0037th Annual Meeting of The Society for Descriptive PsychologySociety for Descriptive Psychologyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12176154735917863472noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6162158435906352314.post-44194448916180320222015-07-03T06:15:00.000-07:002015-07-18T14:07:09.278-07:00The 37th Annual Meeting of The Society for Descriptive Psychology<br />
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Person Concept: The interdependent conceptual framework of Person, Behavior, Language,
and World to create common ground for the Human Sciences.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Justice, </b>discussion of appropriate
treatment approaches for the variety of <b>Dementias</b>, and the place of embodiment and biological "explanation" in Descriptive
Psychology. Other presentations will examine the concept of <b><i>Alief</i></b>,
elucidate science denialism, explore the contribution of Descriptive Psychology to conflict resolution,
and present a variety clinical cases that are conceptualized using a Descriptive
Psychology framework<b>. </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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Descriptive Psychology as a conceptual approach to a broad range of topics within
the behavioral sciences, neurobehavioral sciences, social sciences, and
humanities, continue building the Descriptive Psychology Community, and to promote
further discussion about new approaches to disseminating Descriptive Psychology
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Announcements<br />
Introduction of the President<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:00 - 10:00 </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why is Behavior Not Reducible To Biological States of
Affairs?</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Abstract: T</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">his talk,
after very briefly reviewing Ossorio’s conception of behavior, uses his
formulation to demonstrate why human behavior per se is neither explicable in
terms of, nor reducible to, biological states of affairs, and thus why the
claim from certain quarters that the science of psychology will be superseded
by that of biology — that in the end it’s “all really
biological” — cannot be justified. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Descriptive: Using Descriptive in the Philosophy of Science Class to Understand
Science Denialism<br />
</i></b>Timothy Doyle, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abstract: This presentation shows how Descriptive Psychology
concepts are used in a Philosophy of Science course in order to help students
both gain an overview of, and understand similarities and differences between,
the wide array of arguments employed by ‘science denialists’. Mirroring in some
ways the ‘scale of justified belief’, a scale of doubt is developed, ranging
from healthy skepticism to patent absurdity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Establishing A Working Definition of Social Justice</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;"> Abstract: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
discussion will revolve around the two basic American concepts of Social
Justice: one that focus more on groups and is defined in terms of basic human
rights; the other that emphasizes individuals and focuses on buying power in
the market place. Using the two poles we would like to open up a discussion
that can help us synthesize these two, figure out what is missing and establish
a more precise working definition that can inform fields such as Social Work,
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1:30 <i>- </i>2:30 <b><i>Free Will, Persons, and Alief<br />
</i></b>Ryan Scherbart, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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& Religious Studies Instructor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be substantial agreement among descriptive psychologists that a person is more than
mere physiology. A person, they say,
is something over and above a highly organized bio-chemical system of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">cells, tissues, organs, bones, fluids, neurons, synapses, neurotransmitters,
etc. Persons are not '<span style="color: #262626;">meat machines'.
Human <i>bodies </i>-- fine -- are just physical objects; however, this is
not the case for <i>persons</i>. I
will not so much argue that persons are merely physical beings but rather will suggest
that those who claim otherwise face difficult, perennial questions about causal
interaction between physical and nonphysical things and questions about free will. These queries are intended to promote fruitful
discussion. I will provide an overview
of how philosophers have generally grappled with these issues, including a presentation
of my own work on free will and the concept of <i>alief</i>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Boston Study Group</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3:50 - 4:50 </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Significance and Aggression: A Reconceptualization of "Anger Management Training"<br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Erol Zeybekoglu <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5:00-7:00 Free time for dinner on your own and enjoying Golden.
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OCT 23, EVENING SESSION</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:00-7:30 <b><i>And the Beat Goes On<br />
</i></b>Carolyn Zeiger, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Abstract: This is an informal
opportunity for conference participants to briefly share the ways they are
using Descriptive Psychology, invite discussion or just give an update on their
continuing work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:30 - 8:30 <b><i>Society Business Meeting<br />
</i></b>Moderated by Wynn Schwartz, PhD<br />
SDP President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by Wynn Schwartz, President, SDP, will be discussion of strategies for fostering
the survival of Descriptive Psychology and the Society for Descriptive Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SATURDAY,
OCT 24, MORNING SESSION</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9:00 - 10:00 </span><b><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">Descriptive
Psychology, Personhood, and Neurocognitive Disorders - Lessons Learned, Next
Step</span></i></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">s</span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sonja Holt, PhD, Fernand Lugubuin, PhD,
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</i></b>and Graduate Student Presenters from the University of Denver Clinical
Psychology Program<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OCT 24, EVENING</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">7:30 <b><i>Society Banquet<br />
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OCT 25, MORNING SESSION</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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</i></b>Paula Holt, Esq., LLB<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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11:10 <b><i>Critique<br />
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Observer/Describers have observations and descriptions, Critics have...what? In
the past, we have only used the term "critic talk", but critics do a
lot: identify phenomena, highlight assessment, separate appraisal from
other phenomena, and so on. We can explicate what they do and use it to
conceptualize what is happening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Significance in the Human World<br />
</i></b>Tee Roberts, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Making a distinction between the Performance of a behavior and its Significance
is essential for the scientific study of human behavior. The validity and
value of the distinction is first demonstrated by a set of empirical studies,
dealing with sex roles, intrinsic value, developmental disabilities, and
alcoholism treatment. Then two methodological devices — parametric
analysis and calculational system — are introduced. The use of the devices is
illustrated, culminating in the presentation of a concept of Behavior in which
both Performance and Significance have a place. The implications of the
package as a whole for neuroscience are briefly discussed. (This is a
shortened version of a presentation given in March, 2015 at the first
International Convention of Psychological Science in Amsterdam.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">1. The world makes sense, and so do people. They make sense now.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>2. It's one world. Everything fits together. Everything is related to </i><i>everything else.</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">3. Things are what they are and not something else instead.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">4. Don't count on the world being simpler than it has to be. </span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Peter G. Ossorio, <b>The Behavior of Persons</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">The Society for Descriptive Psychology is a Community exploring the Person Concept: The interdependent conceptual framework of Person, Behavior, Language, and World in the service of creating common ground for the Human Sciences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;">This year's presentations and discussions range from a clarification of the concepts of <b>Social Justice </b>to<b> </b>the varied nature of the <b>Dementias </b>and their appropriate treatments to <b>Motivational Interviewing </b>for <b>Chronic Pain</b>. Other presentations will examine the parameters of <b>Community</b>, the concept of <i><b>Alief</b></i>, the elements of <b>Environmental Aesthetics</b>, the </span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="text-align: start;"><b>Unwanted Persistent Pursuit </b>of a romantic partner</span><b>, </b></span><span style="color: blue;">the </span><b style="color: blue;">Ideology of Empirically Supported Therapy, </b><b style="color: blue;">I to Thou Parenting, </b><b style="color: blue;">Love Across Differences </b><span style="color: blue;">and </span><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dramatic Improvisation </b>to <b>Enhance Social Competency. </b></span><b style="color: blue;"> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">The fundamental goal of this year's conference is interactive community engagement employing <b>Descriptive Psychology</b> in establishing clear and workable conceptualizations of problematic social issues, complex empirical problems and difficult pathologies and their treatments. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: lime; color: blue; font-size: large;">Registration on or before September 15th includes the Banquet and meals. The fee for the Banquet will require a separate payment of $80 after that date.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">2014 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">October 23-26</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.americanmountaineeringcenter.org/" target="_blank">The American Mountaineering Center, Golden, Colorado </a></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="https://www.coloradopsych.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">The Colorado Psychological Association</span></b></a></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.taosinstitute.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Taos Institute</span></a> </b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="color: blue;">The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology</span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><a href="http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Social Justice Solutions, Inc.</span></a><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.socialjusticesolutions.org/" target="_blank"> </a></span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i><b><a href="http://psych.colorado.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of Colorado-Boulder</span></a></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5:30 Board meeting (AMC Drumwright Board Room) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">7:30<b style="font-style: italic;"> Old Timers Club</b> at the The Golden Hotel. A reunion and new union. Come join us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9:00<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Welcome and Description of the Conference.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Introduction to the themes of the morning (Wynn Schwartz, PhD) and the presenters (Laurie Bergner, PhD).</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">9:20</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: large; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre;">A Revolution in the Conception of Empirical Research in the Behavioral Sciences: 1964-66. Peter Ossorio’s Contribution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keith Davis, PhD </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">10:30 Forms of Community Description.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anthony Putman, PhD</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11:30 Drama Club: Utilizing Status Dynamic concepts to enhance authenticity and social competency with at-risk children. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Bryan Harnsberger, MA</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://youtu.be/LLJsKGOGFFg" target="_blank"><b>"<span style="background-color: white;">The 86th Annual Meeting of The Society for Descriptive Psychology</span>"</b></a><b> (click the link) Please post comments on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/socdescpsych" target="_blank">Descriptive Psychology Facebook</a> page.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1:30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Introduction to the themes of the afternoon (Wynn Schwartz, PhD) and the presenters (Carolyn Zeiger, PhD). </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1:40<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Are Descriptive Psychologists Pragmatists About Concepts? A Pragmatist's Case for the Concept of “Alief”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2:40<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>How to See the Forest for the Trees: Using Descriptive Psychology Elements to Understand Environmental Aesthetics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4:00 </span><span style="font-size: large;">Why do some women coerce and persistently pursue men when in a violent relationship: Love, vengeance, and fear? What can be done in treatment with these women? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7:30-9:30<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Making Descriptive Psychology Real: A Master Class in Being a Descriptive Psychologist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9:20<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Problems with “Empirically Supported Therapy” Ideology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">10:30 A Conceptual Foundation for Motivational Interviewing for Chronic Pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jordan Backstrom, MA, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Zachary Delcambre, MA & </span><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew Kobs, MA </span><span style="font-size: large;">(A presentation of The Boston Descriptive Psychology Study Group)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">10:30 How to apply Descriptive Psychology at work: A retrospective view (Archetypal situations in which DP is likely very useful).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A brief orientation to Descriptive Psychology can be found in the postings,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://freedomliberationreaction.blogspot.com/2013/08/people-make-sense-foundations-for-human.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">People Make Sense: Foundations for a Human Science</span> </a></span>and <a href="http://freedomliberationreaction.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-short-course-in-descriptive-psychology.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">A Short Course in Descriptive Psychology</span>.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peter Ossorio's masterwork, <b>The Behavior of Persons</b>, and his volume of status dynamic maxims, <b>Place,</b> are now available in paperback from the <a href="http://www.descriptivepsychologypress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Descriptive Psychology Press. </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 27px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 27px;"> In two short years (1964-66), Ossorio laid the foundation for a revolutionary way of thinking about and conducting behavioral research. Why haven’t you heard about this before? Inside the Descriptive Psychology community, we knew about it but were often focused on other aspects of his contributions. I have set out to present Ossorio’s original ideas about how to conceptualize and engage in research. His ideas about the conduct of research were a direct outgrowth of his formulations of the <b>Person Concept</b>, especially the notions of <b>Deliberate Action, Significance</b>, and acting as a member of a <b>Community</b>. He carefully distinguished the classical Semantic Paradigm of research (theory-hypothesis-operationalization-confirmation) with its focus on empirical truths from his <b>Pragmatic Paradigm (conceptualization-decision-action-vindication)</b>, which was concerned with expanding a person or groups’ behavioral potential—with what they could do in their worlds. As he emphasized, no automatically followed rules for doing research guaranteed the relevance or general applicability of one’s research findings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 27px;"> The <b>Simulation Paradigm</b> is more complex in that it requires an appreciation of the <b>Basic Process Unit</b> from Ossorio’s State of Affairs System (Ossorio, 1971/1978/1998). The representation of a process involves the assignment of a name, A; a description of that process with all of its components (stages, individuals, elements, eligibilities, contingencies, and versions). The most complex simulation study was done by Jeffrey & Putman and dealt with the simulation of an automated system to answer questions about soft-ware development for a large-scale information processing corporation—after its original approach failed. The merits of his approach to simulation has been illustrated at the corporate level and in three theses and dissertations conducted on the problem of individual differences in person perception Mitchell (1967 & 1968) and Putman (1969). I have used a few examples of Ossorio’s own research to illustrate the implications of his thinking about research and for his creativity in taking on issues in automatic document location, the analysis of astrophysical data, and the design of representational systems for NASA’s exploration of Moon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.psych.sc.edu/faculty/Keith_Davis" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Keith E. Davis</span></a> is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department of the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He has twice served as the President of the Society for Descriptive Psychology and serves as the Series Editor for Advances in Descriptive Psychology, which has just published its 10th volume. His research interests include friendship and love relationships, stalking and intimate partner violence, and the foundations of the behavioral sciences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Tony Putman is Chairman of <a href="http://www.tonyputman.com/Biography.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Putman Group</span></a>. He is an internationally-known consultant to organizations and coach to their leaders, and the author of best-selling books on marketing and business relationships. He currently focuses on coaching professionals in marketing their mastery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Tony studied with Peter Ossorio from 1965 to 1973, when he earned his PhD under Dr. Ossorio's direction. He is a founder of The Society for Descriptive Psychology and has twice served as SDP's President. In 1990 he founded Descriptive Psychology Press, and as Director of the Press has published Advances in Descriptive Psychology Vols. 5-10, and The Collected Works of Peter G. Ossorio which to date consists of 7 volumes. He has contributed to the canon of Descriptive Psychology as the author of Communities, Organizations, <a href="http://sdp.org/publications/papers/Being%20Becoming%20and%20Belonging.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Being Becoming and Belonging</span></a> and others papers in the Advances series. His current interest is in deepening our understanding of the world and the person's place in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This past summer a 2-week pilot program, funded by The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, employed </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">drama-based practices with the goal of </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">enhancing social competency in at-risk children ages 8-13. Improvisational e</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">xercises and practices were designed to improve affect and emotion recognition and regulation, authentic self-presentation, and self-esteem </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> through practicing “a better version of yourself.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Bryan Harnsberger is a 6th year doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He is a staff clinician at the Home for Little Wanderers in Boston, Massachusetts. Bryan has extensive experience working with children ages 5-24 in a variety of different settings – in various schools in the Boston Public School system, in-patient dual-diagnosis psychiatric hospital, residential treatment for juvenile sex offenders, and college counseling. His specific clinical interests include child psychotherapy, cognitive testing, substance abuse treatment, and ADHD treatment. He enjoys surfing, golfing and playing soccer in his spare time. Bryan is a member of the Boston Descriptive Psychology Study Group. He can be contacted at bharnsberger@thehome.org.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Descriptive psychologists are in the business of clarifying and being explicit about concepts employed in psychology. Philosophers of psychology are in a similar line of work. Those who are realists about concepts maintain that some concepts track features of the world that are independent of minds, cultures, linguistic practices, etc. Paradigm concepts of this sort include tree, horse, gravity, and noble gas. Pragmatists about concepts argue that even if a concept does not track a feature of the world in this way, it may still deserve a place in our conceptual schema if its employment is practical or fruitful (consider gender, disability, and concepts in string-theory). My aim in this paper is two-fold. First, I will invite descriptive psychologists to reflect on whether the realism/pragmatism distinction is useful for their general project. Subsequently, I will discuss alief -- a concept in psychology (named by Tamar Gendler) that has received a lot of attention of late in philosophical literature. A characteristic alief, on Gendler's view, is a mental state consisting in a pre-parceled bundle of representational (R), affective (A), and behavioral (B) components. A person about to throw a dart at a photo of a loved one, for instance, would likely 'alieve': "harmful action directed at beloved [R], dangerous and ill-advised [A], don’t throw [B]" (Gendler 262). The second aim of this paper is to argue that even if the concept of alief tracks no real feature of the world, it would be imprudent to jettison it from our conceptual framework because its employment could potentially solve a problem I call "the new problem of free will." There are findings suggesting that disbelief in free will is increasingly commonplace. The new problem of free will is the untoward consequences empirically linked with a disbelief in free will, including increased cheating, stealing, aggression and decreased workplace productivity and satisfaction. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Ryan Scherbart is a faculty member of College Ten at UC Santa Cruz, where he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy. Dr. Scherbart is also an adjunct instructor of philosophy at Cabrillo and Gavilan Colleges. He earned an M.A. in philosophy at San Diego State University and a B.A. in philosophy and psychology at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include free will, ethics, philosophy of mind, and moral psychology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b> Environmental Aesthetics is a young field of study, and there is much discussion as to what model of aesthetic appreciation is most appropriate. Alan Carlson develops a ‘Natural Environmental Model’ which closely follows the structure of the traditional models of aesthetic appreciation of art. Yuriko Saito seeks to build upon those insights but also to incorporate an element of environmental responsibility into any adequate model of environmental aesthetics. Arnold Berleant develops an “Engagement Model’ of aesthetics which would reconceptualize even the traditional models of art appreciation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> Using the traditional ‘Object Model’ and ‘Landscape Model’ from the art world as paradigm cases, we can locate parameters (e.g. boundaries, composition, form, line, associations, etc.) to help gain an overview and understanding of the range of environmental aesthetic models on offer. New parameters will be brought in where necessary to assist in understanding how various aspects of the models are similar to or different from one another and from the traditional aesthetic models of art appreciation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> This is important because it is easy, especially for students, to get caught up in the details of the theories and to lose sight of the big picture. Using a descriptive approach to the filed will help them to be able to ‘see the forest for the trees’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Tim Doyle, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northland College, Ashland, WI. He did his graduate work at Free University, Berlin, and at the University of Potsdam, Germany, receiving his PhD in Philosophy in 2007. His areas of interest are Philosophy of Language and Environmental Philosophy. He worked on the translation of H.J. Schneider’s recent book, Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning: Imagination and Calculation. He is currently completing the design and installation of a Japanese style sunken courtyard garden at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Ashland, WI. In his spare time he is working on a new volume of Rilke translations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> Unwanted persistent pursuit (UWPP) has been defined as, “ongoing and unwanted pursuit of romantic relationships between individuals who are not currently [romantically] involved with each other or who have broken up with each other” (Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Palarea, Cohen, & Rohling, 2000; p. 212). Interestingly researchers have also found that UWPP behaviors also occur in intact romantic relationships, especially in relationships that are violent (Logan, Cole, Shannon, & Walker, 2006). Within ongoing relationships, these behaviors function as means of coercive control, that is: a pattern of attempts at controlling all aspects of a partner’s life (Stark, 2007).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> Researchers have recently re-conceptualized UWPP behaviors as part of a broader social practice commonly referred to as intimate partner violence (Goodman & Dutton, 2005). More specifically, UWPP behaviors are systematically used to: (1) a) facilitate attachment then, use that attachment to create/exploit vulnerabilities, (2) make demands (with a credible threat of harm if the demands are not met), (3) conduct surveillance of a target’s relevant behaviors, (4) deliver of threatened consequences for noncompliance and, (5) exert continued control over the target’s (in order to prevent avoidance of consequences for noncompliance).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Starting from Ossorio’s Dramaturgical Model for understanding behavior (Ossorio, 2006), we discuss the functions of UWPP behaviors by women’s in violent intimate relationships. In the current study, a diverse community-drawn sample of 408 women in on-going violent relationships reported on their perpetration of unwanted pursuit behaviors, and their male partners’ perpetration of those same behaviors toward them. The sample was characterized by high levels of mutual violence, emotional abuse, coercive control, and stalking (Swan & Snow, 2004). Factor analytic techniques were used to identify the following factors related to women’s UWPP perpetration: threatening persistent pursuit perpetration, jealousy-motivated persistent pursuit perpetration, and reciprocal familial relationship control. Clinical and prevention implications from a Descriptive Psychology perspective are discussed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You have learned the complex conceptual framework of Descriptive Psychology and have some reasonable competence in using it. With some effort you can apply Descriptive Psychology to good effect to what you see of people and their behavior. In using Descriptive Psychology, you are an Observer/Critic. For you, Descriptive Psychology is true – not analytically, but practically. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You see the world as a Descriptive Psychologist. You don't apply DP to what you see because you already see the world in those terms. You use Descriptive Psychology as an Actor. For you, Descriptive Psychology is real.</span><br />
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Chambless and Hollon (1998) have defined empirically supported treatments (ESTs) as "clearly specified psychological treatments shown to be efficacious in controlled research with a delineated population". This presentation will be a critique of the highly dominant and taken-for-granted EST "best practice" ideology. I will argue that this ideology contains a partial truth, but that in its usual form embodies a number of impractical, incomplete, and even downright wrong ideas. Included in my critique will be: (a) comments on EST's very limited notion of what "empirical" includes; (b) a listing of the many epistemic elements necessarily at work in psychotherapy, some of which rest on more secure evidential grounds than the typical therapy outcome study; and (c) some remarks on how many of the core ideas in psychotherapy (e.g., the basic principle behind cognitive therapy) are not empirical to begin with, and so not reasonably subject to experimental test. </span><br />
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Motivational Interviewing (MI) was originally developed in the early 1980’s as a client centered psychotherapeutic approach to addiction treatment. In the intervening years, MI has become an evidence-based practice promoting behavior change across a variety of areas including criminal justice, medical treatment adherence, and chronic disease management. Of these populations, one of the most challenging to work with clinically, are those who experience chronic pain. This presentation offers an analysis of MI using some of the tools of Descriptive Psychology in reference to those of experience chronic pain. Specifically, it applies the central concepts of social practice, social practice negotiation, and the relationship change formula to describe the relationship between the client and motivational interviewer. Additionally, it highlights the relevance of the judgment diagram, presenting a conceptualization of the way that acute and sub-acute pain experience may be psychologically generalized into what is typically referred to as "chronic." The presentation offers specific interventional examples through a series of case vignettes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Jordan Backstrom is a fourth year doctoral student in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He received his dual undergraduate degrees from the University of Georgia in philosophy and psychology and his MDiv from Harvard Divinity School. His primary area of interest is in the realm of health psychology and the development of a coherent philosophy of patient-centered medicine. His other research and clinical interests include Motivational Interviewing, the treatment of anxiety disorders, and acceptance based therapies for persistent pain conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Z</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">achary Delcambre is a third year doctoral student in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP). Zachary earned three majors at the University of New Hampshire, which included Psychology, Spanish and International Affairs as well as a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology at MSPP. He has dedicated his clinical time to working with Latino populations using Motivational Interviewing strengthened by a conceptual background of Descriptive Psychology. He is currently an intern at the Roger Williams University Counseling Center. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Matt Kobs is a fourth year doctoral student at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. His current internship placement is with the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy. In 2003, he graduated from the University of New Hampshire with an Associate degree in horticulture and in 2011, he graduated from Rivier College with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. He earned his Master's degree in Clinical Psychology in the spring of 2013. In the past, he has worked with a wide variety of persons suffering from varying degrees of mental illness in populations ranging from early childhood to the elderly. His current interests lie in better understanding the role repetition compulsion plays in behavior potential, the unconscious effects of degradations that occurred during a person's early developmental stages of life, the possible trauma associated with job termination, and the role Motivational Interviewing can play in helping high school guidance counselors who are working with adolescents experiencing ambivalence toward continuing their educational careers. Another significant interest he has is the role nature and horticultural practices can play in a person's ability to better cope and manage stressors they are experiencing. Psychodynamically oriented and having a strong horticultural background, he would one day like to work with clients within horticultural settings such as arboretums and nurseries. He works nights slinging beer at a local watering hole and is a proud husband and father of two without whom none of this journey would have been possible. Other interests involve New England sport teams, fishing, hiking, music and playing in the dirt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">Neurocognitive Disorders (NCDs; formerly called “dementias”) are typically defined as biologically-based conditions characterized by progressive neurological decline (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Through much of the 20th century, symptoms associated with NCDs were thought to directly reflect the progression of underlying pathology. Accordingly, efforts to reverse symptom expression were often considered misguided; after all, it was thought, as the underlying pathology was immutable, so too must be the symptom expression. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">In the later 20th century, social psychologist Tom Kitwood and colleagues published a set of empirical research and theoretical elaborations centered on the variability of symptom progression in people with NCDs. At the heart of Kitwood’s work sits the concept of “personhood.” Kitwood and others demonstrated that depersonalization (affronts to personhood) resulted in poor clinical outcomes for those with NCDs, while treatments aimed at restoring and preserving personhood could reduce disruptive behaviors and, in some cases, improve cognitive functioning. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">While the contributions of Kitwood, the Bradford Dementia Group, and others have significantly advanced treatment for those with NCDs, generally absent from this personhood movement in NCD care has been a clear conceptualization of “person” or “behavior.” As a result, treatment prescriptions tend to be broad (see, for example, Brookner, 2007), with little guidance for systematically discerning among dementias and tailoring treatment accordingly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">In the present analysis we aim to open the conversation on applying various tools of Descriptive Psychology to help clarify the range of deficits to personhood that result from Neurocognitive Disorders, to begin distinguishing among them, to understand how they might factor into impairments in a person’s ability to competently participate in the Social Practices of his/her community, and to begin using this knowledge to inform a more individualized approach to care. DP conceptualizations of Intentional Action, Community, Social Practices, Pathology, the Actor-Observer-Critic Model, Self, and Behavioral Potential may be considered. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">To simplify the discussion, two notably different NCDs have been selected for consideration: Alzheimer’s Disease (the most common NCD for those over 75) and Frontotemporal Dementia (the most common NCD for those under 60). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Aladdin Ossorio is a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Newton, Massachusetts. Mr. Ossorio has focused his research on issues of aging and his clinical training on working with older adults. Mr. Ossorio’s Doctoral Project, overseen by Dr. Erlene Rosowsky, focuses on applying the tools of Descriptive Psychology to clarifying treatment for people with NCDs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Having previously trained in Geriatric Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance – A Harvard University Teaching Hospital, and with Vietnam era veterans at the Edith Nourse Rogers Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Bedford, MA, Mr. Ossorio is a current intern at the Leon O. Brenner Center for Psychological Assessment, where he is parlaying specialized training in differential diagnosis of NCDs into helping develop a new assessment, cognitive preservation, and therapy practice for Older Adults. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Mr. Ossorio is a member of the American Society on Aging (ASA), the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), and the Boston Study Group on Descriptive Psychology sponsored by Dr. Wynn Schwartz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">We might wonder if humiliation is the ugly child of psychological science. Although most of us have dreaded it, experienced it, been stung or devastated by it, kept it firmly hidden in the recesses of privacy, and always been dismayed by its recollection, its presence as a topic in our training has been curiously hushed. We might wonder if the pain that comes to many of us with the topic has veered us away from its study and discussion. As a result, humiliation and its effects are often missed and the treatment of these effects is often less than optimal. With the heightened recognition of the devastating effects of bullying on both the young and adults, the topic of humiliation has gained some prominence, but primarily in relationship to these specific scenarios. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dr. Torres came upon the significance of humiliation when treating a special population that showed unusually severe depressions, many treatment refractory, many marked by suicidality, homicidality and psychoticism. He discovered that humiliation was the central factor accounting for the severity of these depressions. He has published on the nature, the consequences and the clinical treatment of humiliation. Humiliation remains a central focus of Dr. Torres’ clinical and forensic practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">b.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the effects of humiliation on behavioral functioning and the basis for these effects; </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">c.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the factors that mediate the severity of humiliation; </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">d.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>some cultural factors associated with humiliation;</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">e.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>treatment methodologies adapted to specific humiliation scenarios, including workplace bullying;</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">f.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the long term course of recovery from major humiliation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">A representative publication: <a href="http://www.sdp.org/publications/papers/Humiliation%20It%27s%20Nature%20and%20Consequences.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">W. Torres and R. Bergner, Humiliation: Its Nature and Consequence</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Most interventions for ADHD and other disabilities affecting executive functioning involve the imposition of adult will or cultural hegemony upon an unwilling and uncooperative client. However, they rarely work well in real life, for many reasons. In this workshop, I will show how Descriptive Psychology can help us understand the pitfalls in this practice and figure out how to work more effectively. Ideas including status dynamics, behavior potential, the actor-observer-critic model, and the parameters of intentional action, can all be used by a helper (therapist, coach, teacher, parent, or friend) to better understand what is getting in the way for the client and to design appropriate interventions. </span></div>
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for parents who wish to create an “I-thou” connection with their children,
beginning in infancy. Through the use of vignettes, the presentation will
illustrate the different types of connections parents create with their
children using descriptive concepts such as Status Dynamics and the Actor -Observer -Critic model. Parents will recognize how to approach parenting from an “I-thou” perspective
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to know their children as persons and create a shared world with them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dr. Heather Holmes-Lonergan holds a PhD in developmental
psychology from the University of Florida, and has taught courses in infant,
childhood, and adult development for nearly 20 years. She is currently enrolled
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">CJ Peek, PhD <span style="font-weight: normal;">with commentary by</span> Julia Peek</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">Descriptive Psychology (DP) affords powerful ways to organize one’s thinking about almost anything encountered at work—whatever that work is. In the presenter’s case that has been health psychology, healthcare organizations, leadership and research. In retrospect, most of the presenter’s applications of DP were archetypal—not specifically tied to those subject matters. As a well-known physician once said, “from my experience, Descriptive Psychologists help you become much clearer about what you are looking at—whatever that is”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">This presentation is aimed primarily at students and those early in their careers who want to quickly apply DP as a discipline to practical situations commonly encountered at work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">This session describes archetypal work situations in which DP was found especially useful—a taxonomy of common situations such as: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">1.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bringing clarity to different ideas at different levels heaped up after a “good discussion” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Establishing good enough common language to get through a phone call, meeting, or project </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clarifying the subject matter of an emerging field to ask consistently understood research questions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Describing complex subject matters or projects at several “altitudes” and dimensions in a way that preserves both top line meanings and bottom line details (ability to ‘zoom’ in and out)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">5.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Representing on a page how a complex organization works—leadership roles and forums, teams</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large; font-weight: normal;">A handout with a variety of actual examples of DP-inspired work products for these and other archetypal work situations is provided—along with a challenge to the audience to quickly recognize and apply DP to archetypal situations across subject matters, as a generalist Descriptive Psychologist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Web-published consensus lexicons—definitional frameworks for emerging fields</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Integrated behavioral health: <a href="http://integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/lexicon" target="_blank">http://integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/lexicon</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lexicon for practice-based research agenda: <a href="http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/collaborativecare/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/collaborativecare/index.html</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Palliative care: <a href="https://www.icsi.org/_asset/90zl9w/ConsensusOperationalDefinitionofPalliativeCare.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.icsi.org/_asset/90zl9w/ConsensusOperationalDefinitionofPalliativeCare.pdf</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Health care home: <a href="https://www.icsi.org/_asset/y7c41x/health_care_home_operational_definition__.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.icsi.org/_asset/y7c41x/health_care_home_operational_definition__.pdf</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shared decision-making: <a href="http://msdmc.org/pdf/SDM_Lexicon.pdf" target="_blank">http://msdmc.org/pdf/SDM_Lexicon.pdf</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Articles / chapters, web-publications that sharpen definitions of common concepts:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Patient complexity: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20047353" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20047353</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Patient-centeredness: <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fsh/28/4/322/" target="_blank">http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/fsh/28/4/322/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Harmonizing clinical, operational, and financial worlds: <a href="http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-76894-6_3#page-1" target="_blank">http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-76894-6_3#page-1</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Research and evaluation of natural experiments: <a href="http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/69/4/430" target="_blank">http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/69/4/430</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Collaborative Care: <a href="http://advancingcaretogether.org/pdfs/IntegCare%20AidsNavigation(c)%20909.pdf" target="_blank">http://advancingcaretogether.org/pdfs/IntegCare%20AidsNavigation(c)%20909.pdf</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">YouTube on Colorado integrated behavioral health: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj5CDnyQEuA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj5CDnyQEuA</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Using structured interviews based on a Descriptive Psychology conceptualization of Culture (Ossorio, 2006; Putman, 1981), and Bergner and Roberts’ conceptualization of love relationships, significant themes in the romantic lives of 13 interracial couples (eight Black/White, four White/Asian, and one Black/Asian) are described and explicated. This study had two objectives: First, to describe the various ways in which these interracial couples navigate dilemmas of family, community, and culture in maintaining a loving partnership; second, to explicate the multiplicity of meanings attributed to love within these relationships. Ground research procedures (Mertens, 2005) were used to interpret the detailed couple and individual interviews. Themes that were agreed up by the author and two doctoral level psychologists were counted as present.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Six themes were identified: 1) Salience of idiosyncratic qualities as the basis for the mutual attraction of the couples (in 9 of 13 cases); 2) Appraisal of what romantic love meant to each couple, in all but one case, the couples endorsed caring about the welfare of their partner as a primary factor in their love relationship; 3) Attitudes towards gender roles and the division of household tasks; 4) Color-blindness vs. a confrontation of the effects of racism on one or more partners; 5) Racial prejudice within the families of the spouses; and 6) The continued power of tradition and culture to shape relationship experiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anna is one of the 34.2 million foreign born people who immigrated to the United States during the turn of the 21st century. As a child of the former Soviet Union, Anna has been greatly influenced by my Eastern European, Jewish roots. She has found as much shaped by the American and Russian-Jewish culture as by her privileged status in the world. Since adolescence, Anna has self-identified as being a member of a multicultural group although her racial identity by default placed her into the majority of European origins. She has taken experiences from each of these vastly contrasting and often contradictory socio- cultural systems to develop a professional identity that embodies the ingredients necessary to be a conscientious and multicultural practitioner Given her personal experiences in multi-cultural America, she found a niche and desire to explore the importance and intersection of love and race. Her life story was the purveyor of her Doc Project, entitled, “Love Across Differences: A Study of Interracial Couples.” </span></span><br />
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