New Board and Officers for 2007-2008

 
This year, with the new constitution being implemented, fifteen new board members were elected to serve three, two, and one terms. The election was held last August 16-24, 2007.
 
Elected board members starting 2007 are Allan B.I. Bernardo, PhD (3 years, from De La Salle University-Manila), Jesus Enrique G. Saplala, PhD (3 years from, from Miriam College), Richard [...]

Guidance Act Legal Forum

Around a hundred psychologists, guidance counselors, psychometricians, and graduate students filled the Escaler Hall of Ateneo de Manila University for PAP’s Legal Forum on Understanding the Implications of RA 9258 or the Guidance Act of 2004 last November 16, 2007.
There were three panel discussants: Atty. Carlos Almelor (Head of PRC Secretariat Office), Atty. Theodore Te [...]

PAPJA conquers Miriam College

For the second time after ten years, Miriam College hosted the 21st Psychology Association of the Philippines – Junior Affiliates (PAPJA) National Convention with the theme, Unity amid Diversity: One Philippine Psychology from December 7-8, 2008. Miriam College president, Dr. Patricia B. Licuanan, welcomed more than 1,500 delegates from all over the country at the [...]

Highlights of the Proceedings: Legal Forum on Understanding the Implications of RA 9258.

Are psychologists  required to be licensed under RA 9258?
Psychologists must be licensed if they want to practice guidance and/or counseling as stipulated in RA 9258. The scope of practice covered by this law includes such functions as counseling, psychological testing, research, placement, group processes, teaching of guidance and counseling subjects in such sites as educational [...]

Allen Tan, PhD recalls 25 years of PJP.

 
For twenty five years, the Philippine Journal of Psychology (PJP) was edited by Allen I. Tan, PhD. Dr. Tan completed his PhD in Social Psychology at Cornell University. Through e-mail, we were able to collect his thoughts as the outgoing editor.
 
The PJP began in 1968 and Dr. Tan started editing the December 1983 issue [...]

Hello Dr. Emy!

 
Our new editor for the Philippine Journal of Psychology is Ma. Emma Concepcion D. Liwag, PhD. She is an associate professor in the Psychology Department of the Ateneo de Manila University. She finished her PhD in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Chicago.

Philippine Psychologists in Supreme Court Forum on Extrajudicial Killings

“In the Philippine context, whether or not the perceptions are correct, the victims of extrajudicial killings are perceived to belong to the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) while the perpetrator’s are perceived to be the Government – the Armed Forces of the Philippines (GRP-AFP).” — Peace/ social psychologist, Cristina J. Montiel, PhD.

Naty Dayan, PhD in the Board of Directors of the Asian Psychological Association.

 
A Filipino psychologist is in the board of directors of the Asian Psychological Association (APsycA). Dr. Natividad Dayan, a clinical and forensic psychologist, is the treasurer for the organization.  APsyA is a professional society founded in 2005 to bring together psychologists in the rapidly developing countries of Asia with its mission to advance psychology and the [...]