Are you a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, clinical counsellor or social worker who knows that wellbeing is not just the absence of illness and want to learn more about the research, theory and practice of psychological wellbeing for your patients, yourself and your colleagues?
Why should you come to the 8TH IPPA World Congress on Positive Psychology?
Positive psychology in the clinical context, in addition to treating and mitigating symptomatic stress, explicitly building the wellbeing of clients. The IPPA World Congress is the largest global gathering of researchers and practitioners where clinicians and mental health professionals from a variety of backgrounds can learn skills of integrating specific wellbeing interventions to expand their therapeutic repertoire and help their clients not only become less sad, depressed, anxious or angry but also genuinely help them to experience joy, fulfillment, satisfaction, relational connection and a sense of meaning and purpose.
This Congress is an ideal professional development opportunity for clinical practitioners who want to:
CLIENT WELLBEING
Learn how specific positive psychology concepts such as character strengths, meaning, purpose and flow, can be incorporated systematically to enhance client wellbeing
what kind of presentations can you expect to see at the congress?
With over 590 presentations across 4 action packed day, there is a path of content for everyone. To give a snapshot, please see a small example of talks focused on clinical research and practice that you can find in the program:
Post-Psychedelic Growth? Mental Healthcare Providers’ Beliefs about Personal Growth after Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Naturalistic Psychedelic Use, Maya Atlas (view session information)
Integrating Positive Psychology in Established Clinical Practice, Elliot Cohen (view session information)
Using a positive approach to suicide prevention: the Sources of Strength model and it’s application in college settings, Kelly Chang, Grace Emhoff, Ashlen Wright & Anne Drescher (view session information)
Practitioner Wellbeing
Learn how positive psychology concepts, skills and strategies can make one’s practice more integrated, cohesive, and more fulfilling for practitioners.
Positive psychology researchers and practitioners will be presenting their work on the most innovative research and practice on a wide variety of well-being topics including: achievement. aging, arts and humanities, biology, business and organizations, career and work, caregivers, coaching, complexity, coping and emotion regulation, creativity, culture, diversity and inclusion, education, environment and nature, ethics, family, financial wellbeing, flow, gamification, health and medicine, interdisciplinarity, leadership/management, lifespan development, meaning and purpose, mental illness, mindfulness, motivation, neuroscience, open-mindedness, parenting, physical wellbeing, polarization, positive emotions, psychotherapy, relationships, religion and spirituality, sport and fitness, resilience and posttraumatic growth, self-care, strengths, sustainability, systems, technology, toxic positivity, and much more!
Choose a path that fits your needs and interests and join us in Vancouver to connect with as many as 1,600 like-minded individuals who are keen to learn and grow together around the study of human flourishing.
Take advantage of flight and accommodation discounts available to attendees, register now!