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As we close out what has been a difficult 2020, we want to make a point of saying thank you to frontline workers. Doctors, nurses, food and beverage and cleaning staff in hospitals. Grocery workers, bus drivers, truck drivers, agricultural workers, PSWs, and many more. You have helped to keep the rest of us fed, safe, and able to go on. Please take some time for yourselves, and take care of your mental health. Here is Dr. Meghan Norris of Queens University with many of her co...lleagues saying thanks - this is part of a larger video available on our YouTube channel. Thank you all, and all the best in 2021!

Psychologists from across Canada came together to thank frontline workers for all they're doing during this pandemic, and provide some self-care advice. CPA CEO Dr. Karen Cohen does so here, and on the full video which is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djRlb8Zyi7g

The Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development in Toronto is hiring a Psychologist. Closing date: 2021/01/23 CPA Career Ads and Resources page (check out the new Career Hub while you're there!)... https://cpa.ca/careers/

New Continuing Education course now available through the CPA: 'Exploring Screen Addiction, Excessive or Otherwise Non-integrated Use of Screen-based Technologies' Join Dr. Mari Swingle to explore the biological/neurophysiological bases of content addiction, process addiction, and more!... https://cpa.lts-online.net/home/

The CPA office is closed until the new year. Best wishes to everyone this holiday season!

Formation en ligne Canadian Centre on Substance Use / Centre canadien sur les dépendances: L’ABC de la stigmatisation, de l’usage de substances et de la santé mentale: un guide d’accompagnement des étudiants pour éducateurs maintenant offerte aux professeurs et au personnel au Algonquin College Carleton University (Official) et uOttawa #santémentale https://ccsa.ca//une-video-sur-la-dependance-la-sante-ment

In Ottawa, Carleton University Department of Psychology is hiring an Assistant Professor Psychology (Developmental Neuropsychology) Closing date 2020/11/15 CPA career ads... (and don't forget Carleton Psych's Psychology Mental Health Day, Oct 8 1:30-4:00!) https://cpa.ca/careers/

October 8 is Carleton University Department of Psychology Psychology Mental Health Day. The keynote speaker this year is former CPA President Dr. Keith Dobson. https://carleton.ca/psychology/psychology-mental-health-day/ We spoke with Dr. Dobson on the CPA Podcast, so his upcoming appearance (and his upcoming conference call with the World Health Organization (WHO) ) wouldn't seem so daunting by comparison.... https://soundcloud.com//dr-ketih-dobson-carleton-universit

Student members! The American Psychological Association Psych Solutions competition is open to current members/affiliates of CPA, and student affiliates are encouraged to apply. Deadline to submit proposal: Oct 30 Winner receives $10,000 and a 1-year APA membership... https://www.apa.org///memorandum-understanding/competition

Stigma, Substances and Mental Health 101: An Educator’s Guide to Supporting Students is now available online to Algonquin College Carleton University (Official) and uOttawa faculty & staff. CPA President Dr. Kim Corace helped develop this program with Canadian Centre on Substance Use / Centre canadien sur les dépendances #stigma https://ccsa.ca/addiction-mental-health-and-anti-stigma-res

Recent research funded by the Nova Scotia COVID-19 Health Research Coalition has sought to better understand how LGBTQ+ individuals have been coping with the pandemic. Dr. Karen Blair writing with Bre O'Handley & Kavya Chandra in Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com//how-are-lgbtq-canadians-c

"A new study out of the University of Toronto revealed surprising results, researchers say, on how students’ mental health has fared during COVID-19 and under the pandemic-mandated campus shutdown earlier this year. The study, published in early September in the journal Canadian Psychology, revealed that U of T students with mental health concerns are faring similarly, or better, under the COVID-19 pandemic than they were a year ago." https://www.cambridgetimes.ca//10212270-a-study-s-surpris/

Upcoming webinar from Psychology Foundation of Canada 'The Struggle to Juggle: Working Parents Pandemic Survival Guide' October 7th, 2020 ... 12 pm ET EXPERT PANELIST Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell These webinars fill up fast, so get in early! https://us02web.zoom.us//register/WN_pm_68RISSjq8vKLYeRb7pg

According to the results of the study, young adults, anglophones, and health care workers are the most heavily affected group in all seven regions [of Quebec that were represented in the survey pool] https://www.sherbrookerecord.com/university-of-sherbrooke-/

October 2020 is #BlackStudentsWellnessMonth - the V-TRaC Lab Projects is offering a free training course at the end of the month: How to use mindfulness with Black youth in a psychotherapeutic context Are you a mental health professional interested in how mindfulness can apply to your practice? Join Michelle Nicholls, Registered Clinical Social Worker and Psychotherapist, to learn how to use mindfulness techniques with Black youth in your therapy practice.... Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Time: 2:00 PM Place: Via Zoom invitation, provided upon registration To register, email: [email protected]

The Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto is hiring a Psychologist Closing date: 2020/10/30 CPA Career Ads... https://cpa.ca/careers/

The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health shared the 2020-2021 Faces of Mental Illness today. To read these incredibly inspiring stories, click here: https://camimh.ca/faces-campaign/

The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health Champions of Mental Health Virtual Awards Ceremony is one week away! If you have not already, we encourage you to register for the ceremony and to please share the invitation with your colleagues and with your networks. They shared last week a lovely message from Jann Arden encouraging people to sign up and that Traci Melchor will be hosting, and earlier this week they also publicly shared that Chantal Kreviazuk will deliver a very special performance. You will also hear from a number of notable parliamentarians and other mental health advocates. It will be an inspiring event and we hope you and as many Canadians as possible are able to attend. Registration: https://www.livemeeting.ca//canadian-alliance-on-mental-i/

Clinical Health Psychology in Winnipeg is hiring a Clinical Psychologist Generalist-Adult Services Closing date: 2020/10/28 CPA career ads... https://cpa.ca/careers/

You really have a perfect storm, in that the theories are directed at those who have fears of getting sick and dying or infecting someone else...and those fears distract people from judging the accuracy of content they may read online. - Dr. Gordon Pennycook, behavioural scientist at University of Regina school of business https://www.nytimes.com//psychology-conspiracy-theories.ht

"Results demonstrate that committing to a semantic interpretation of an event incurs a processing cost (lower working memory capacity) but that the cognitive system responsible for sentence processing only commits to a certain interpretation when it is forced to do so." New in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology Making semantic commitments can be delayed: Evidence from aspectual processing... Bartošová, J., Chapman, C., Kuerová, I., & Service, E. https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcep0000227

Anti-Racism & Racism Psychology, Psychiatry, Counseling, Psychotherapy, & Supervision: A good list of 57 Articles & BooksCites + Summaries from Kenneth S. Pope, Ph.D., ABPP https://kspope.com/ethics/anti-racism.php

York University's Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health is hiring: Tenure-track - Assistant or Associate Professor in Clinical-Developmental Psychology / Indigenous Mental Health Closing date: 2020/10/25... CPA Career ads: https://cpa.ca/careers/

"This study showed that people only enjoy and appreciate the inherently ironic genre of satirical news more than regular news when they find the satire funny. Even though previous research suggested that a low vocal pitch and a slow speech rate could draw attention to ironic content, variations in these prosodic characteristics did not influence satire’s humor ratings." New in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology: Sounds like a funny joke: Effects of vocal pitch and sp...eech rate on satire liking Brugman, B. C., & Burgers, C. https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcep0000226

New Training Course From CPN-PREV (Canadian Practitioners Network for Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence) "Reflect is the first of three segments of training on practice in the field of preventing violent radicalization (PVR). This training will be an interactive session carried out via Zoom. Date: Oct. 6, 2020 10 AM-12 PM (Eastern Time) ... Location: Zoom Cost: Free Number of CE credits: 2 In Reflect, participants will be called to examine common perceptions and attitudes towards Others by reflecting on concepts such as ethnocentrism, othering processes, and cultural sensitiveness. This will help the facilitators and trainees to unpack common terms associated with violent extremism. Presented by: Ghayda Hassan, PhD CPN-PREV Founder, Director, UQAM Professor, Psychologist Paola Porcelli, PhD Coordinator, Trainer, Researcher (Clinical & Intercultural Psychology) Yann Zoldan, PhD Post-doc, Trainer, Researcher (Clinical & Intercultural Psychology) Daniela Aranibar, MA Trainer, Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator, Researcher (Educational Studies) Reflect will be followed by Understand November 3, and Take Action December 4. Register here: https://cpnprev.ca/ce-credited-trainings/

"Children often find it hard to understand the meaning of sarcastic speech. The results of this study show that children’s sarcasm detection can be improved with a single training session. This suggests that social learning and experience are important to children’s ability to understand sarcasm." Teaching sarcasm: Evaluating metapragmatic training for typically developing children - Lee, K., Sidhu, D. M., & Pexman, P. M.... New in CJEP https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fcep0000228

Dialogues and Action to Address Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Ed The University of Toronto, in partnership with universities and colleges across Canada, is hosting The National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities, with the first in the series focused on sharing experiences, learning best practices, and contributing to formulation and implementation of concrete actions that resolutely reject anti-Black racism and drive... enduring Black inclusion. Thursday, October 1st & Friday, October 2nd 12 p.m. 4 p.m. (ET) Registration is free! https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/nationaldialogues/