INT. REV. APP. PSYCHOL. (1971), VOL. 20, NO. 1

T H E XVII th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF A P P L I E D

PSYCHOLOGY

This is a reminder of the jubilee Congress which will be held in Li2ge, from 25 to 30 July, 1971, on the general theme : Looking ahead after half a century of applied psychology. Here are the titles of the symposia, colloquia and working groups.

1. Symposia : The diagnosis and resolution of work problems - Industrial rela- tions - The likely developments in organizational psychology in the next decade - Group dynamics as a technique of intervention in organizations -Vocational maturity - Career development from an organizational point of view - Motiva- tion for professional updating - The growth of student numbers, with special reference to students of psychology, and the problem of job placement-The behaviour of drivers and road safety - Research extensions of clinical psychology: emphasis on prevention - Psychological antecedents, concomitants, and sequelae of somatic diseases - Interest and danger of sociodrama, and introduction to psychodrama - The ecology of social behaviour - Individual and group vio- lence - The co-operation of social education and applied psychology - Educa- tional technology : audio-visual aids and programmed learning - Cross-national evaluation of educational systems - The detection and training of scientific talent - The relationship between art and personality : problems of diagnosis and prognosis - International and intercultural similarities and differences in personality traits-Genetic and cultural differences in abilities: educational and occupational implications (previously announced as a colloquium)-Psycholo- gical studies of problems of developing countries - Educational and occupational selection in developing countries - Applied mathematical psychology - Military psychology - Pastoral psychology - Architectural psychology - Consumer psychology - The psychology of sport.

2. Colloquia : Selection of managers - Differential psychology and problems of occupational fitness - Psychological aspects of the design of displays - Work and fatigue - The psychological effects of noise - The use of tests, in particular tests of vocational interest, in educational and vocational guidance - Computer- assisted career guidance : experiments in schools and in industry - Recent atti- tude research - Recent research into psychotherapy - Social psychology of mental health - Applications of developmental psychology and neurophysiology to the education of children : a new look - The taxonomy of educational objec- tives - The psychology of developing teaching and improvement of school edu- cation - Achievement and prospects in the application of psycholinguistics to the teaching of foreign languages - The use of drawings in the study of personality and in psychodiagnosis - The measurement of creativity - Psychological and

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socio-psychological problems of ageing-The role of applied psychology in national development programmes - The identification of talent in developing countries.

3. Working groups. Fifty-eight working groups are projected, on the most varied topics in industrial, clinical, social, educational and developmental psychology, psychometrics, vocational guidance, rehabilitation of the handicapped, cardiac patients, mentally-ill, delinquents, etc.

4. Free papers. About one hundred free papers have been accepted. They will complete the above programme and include papers on job analysis, the training of managers, re-education of stutterers and aphasics, dyslexia, forensic psychology, use of drugs, effects of television, projective techniques, sociometry, the state of applied psychology in different countries, cross-cultural research, etc.

Delegates from about fifty nations will collaborate actively in the different sessions as chairmen, reviewers or invited discussants, and it is probable that more than two thousand participants, from about sixty nations, will attend the Congress. A volume of pre-prints will be sent, two months before the Congress, to registered participants.

The provisional programme (about forty pages) will be sent free of charge and without obligation, together with an application form and a leaflet on Travel and Accommodation : apply to the Congress Secretariat, 36 Boulevard Piercot, 4000- Lihge, Belgium. Please indicate how many copies you need and in which language (English, French or German).

For the Organizing Committee: R. PIRET, President of the Congress