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The Drexel University Student Counseling Center - Center City Hahnemann Campus invites you to attend a presentation on self-advocacy, ethics and professional decision-making for early career psychologists conducted by Dr. Samuel J. Knapp, Ed.D., Director of Professional Affairs of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, on Monday, January 30, 2012, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, at the New College Building (NCB) Multipurpose Room 3506-10, on the Center City Campus. Light refreshments will be provided. Please RSVP by Wednesday, January 25, 2012, to Ms. Flo Jones at fj24@drexel.edu.
 
A renowned ethics scholar and expert, Dr. Knapp has been the Director of Professional Affairs for the Pennsylvania Psychological Association since 1987. His primary area of interest is in professional ethics. His other areas of interest include mental health and well-being, public policy advocacy, and religion and psychology. In addition to writing several books, numerous book chapters, and more than 80 peer reviewed articles, Dr. Knapp has given more than 250 professional presentations, mostly on ethical issues. Through his work with the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Dr. Knapp has provided thousands of consultations on ethics to psychologists. In return, these consultees have enriched him by instructing him on the issues they face daily, and their issues provide much of the content for his publications and presentations. He feels much appreciation for the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association for allowing him to serve the psychological community in Pennsylvania in this manner. Among his other ethics related activities, Dr. Knapp coordinates an annual "Ethics Educators" workshop in Pennsylvania; served as a member of the Task Force responsible for rewriting the 2002 APA Ethics Code; coauthored an ethics text book (Practical Ethics: A Positive Approach with Leon VandeCreek); served as a consultant for the APA Insurance Trust, where he worked on the well-received book, Assessing and Managing Risk in Professional Practice; and received the 2009 award for ethics education from the APA Ethics Committee. He also teaches ethics in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

As the prevalence of children with autism has skyrocketed, the condition has captured the interest of the popular media, the entertainment industry and federal policy makers. Possibly autism is so fascinating because it involves an eclectic collection of impairments, including language, social skills, odd repetitive behaviors, and sensory differences. Why do these occur together in a single condition? Can a few small differences in infants, such as preferring spinning tops over people's faces, cause big learning problems later?
This talk will focus on ways in which autism researchers are using technologies that examine attention, such as eye-tracking, to determine the reason for some of the learning patterns found in people with autism. Attendees will come to understand the challenge of studying a disorder that acts as a moving target, with the youngest infants showing few markers of autism, and older children affected by a variety of interventions that may alter the presentation of the condition.
This event is free and open to students, faculty and staff.

 

Light refreshments will be served.

 

For more information, please contact Diane Ketler at dk882@drexel.edu.

For several decades, Dr. Loftus has been manufacturing memories in unsuspecting minds. Sometimes this involves changing details of events that were actually experienced. Other times it involves planting entire memories event events that never happened - "rich false memories." Rich false memories can be planted even when the experiences would have been implausible or impossible. Moreover, once planted, they have consequences for people, affecting later thoughts, intentions, and behaviors. Once planted, they look very much like true memories - in terms of behavioral characteristics, emotionality and neural signatures.
 
Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California - Irvine. She holds faculty positions in three departments (Psychology & Social Behavior; Criminology, Law & Society; and Cognitive Sciences), and in the School of Law. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University. Since then, she has published 22 books (including the award winning Eyewitness Testimony) and over 500 scientific articles. Loftus's research has focused on the malleability of human memory. She has been recognized for this research with six honorary doctorates and election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is past president of the Association for Psychological Science, the Western Psychological Association, and the American Psychology-Law Society.

Please join Psi Chi for Research Day.

Learn the concepts of Mindfulness Meditation through a didactic and experiential workshop with Dr. Chris Molnar, founder of Mindful Exposure Therapy for Anxiety (M.E.T.A.) and Psychological Wellness Center in Abington, PA!

 

First session at 1:00pm

Second session at 2:00pm

 

Open to faculty, staff and students. Light refreshments will be provided.