Professional Training in Applied Psychology: Towards a Signature Pedagogy for Forensic Psychology Training

Forensic Psychology is a recognised and important sub‐specialty of the Psychology discipline. However, after an expansion in the number of training places that were offered when programmes were first developed, recent years have seen these diminish in response to changes in university policies, resulting from reformulated Federal government funding models. In this article, we argue that it is important for the future of specialist areas of professional psychology to not only articulate the core skills and competencies that are associated with specialist practice but also to develop unique and distinctive approaches to teaching and learning signature pedagogies. Based on the premise that forensic psychological practice is, indeed, a distinctive activity that requires different skills and, importantly, different ways of thinking about the work from other areas of professional psychology, it is suggested that professional training in this area should aim to develop a signature pedagogy which combines methods of teaching and learning that have been developed in legal training programmes with principles of problem‐based learning.     

心理学教学实施创造教育初探

“心理学教学实施创造教育的研究”是笔者主持的江苏省“九五”立项课题“中师心理学综合教改实验”的子课题。本课题旨在探索心理学的传统教学向创造教学转变的内在机制。这是一个有现实和深远意义的探索性课题 ,在进展中既有许多收获 ,也有不少困难和问题。现将初步经验总结如下 ,以求教于行家。1　课题提出的紧迫性　　众所周知 ,我们正处于科教兴国日新月异的时代 ,知识经济已见端倪。创新 ,是知识经济时代的一个显著标志。知识经济时代教育的核心是培养人的创造素质。“如果学生在学校里学习的结果是使自己什么也不会创造 ,那他一生将…     

Building a Course on Psychology of Women: Method and Resources

Requests for a course on psychology of women are often more complex than initially assumed. Sometimes support groups, women's centers, or legal action may be more appropriate. Courses may vary in goals, format, and position within the curriculum. Resources and references which maximize flexibility, help faculty keep current about publications, and draw from other disciplines as well as psychology are useful. Examples of current publications and general reference sources are presented. Information regarding nonprint materials and publications from alternative sources is included.     

Hear No Evil,See No Evil,Think No Evil: Ethics and the Appeal to Experience

This essay distinguishes three types of appeals to experience in ethics, identifies problems with appealing to experience, and argues that appeals to experience must be open to critical assessment, if experientially-based arguments are to be useful. Unless competing and potentially irreconcilable experiences can be assessed and adjudicated, experientially-based arguments will be problematic. The paper recommends thinking of the appeal to experience as a kind of story telling to be evaluated as other stories are.     

The Interplay of Creative Behavior,Divergent Thinking,and Knowledge Base in Students' Creative Expression During Learning Activity

The purpose of this study was to research the relations between knowledge, students’ self-assessed creative performance, and divergent thinking (DT), objectively and subjectively scored. Fourth-grade students (N = 115) participated in an instructional project integrated to actual curriculum and then completed 2 DT tasks, a test of knowledge base, and a self-assessment. Teachers’ ratings of student achievement were also collected. DT tasks were scored (a) for fluency, flexibility, and originality, and (b) using the consensual assessment technique (CAT). Results indicated that different DT tasks scoring methods, having moderate intercorrelations, predicted different aspects of creative behavior, and that knowledge has its own predictive role.     

Langtry on God,the Best and Evil

Bruce Langtry's ‘God, the Best and Evil’ is a fine contribution to the literature. Here, I review the contents of the book, and then provide some critical remarks that, as fas as I know, have not been made elsewhere. In particular, I argue that his criticism of my formulations of logical arguments from evil (in my Arguing about Gods) is unsuccessful.     

谈高校公共心理学课程的必要性和设置

心理学是我国高等师范院校的一门公共必修课 ,属于师范教育类课程之一 ,而近年来 ,我国一些综合性大学、理工科大学等也先后增设心理学为公共必修课或公共选修课。1　高校开设公共心理学课程的必要性1.1　大学生的心理特点大学生正处于青年中期 (十七八～二十四五岁 ) ,有人把大学生归为“边缘人” ,即介于两个群体边界上的人。“成年初期的青年 ,特别是大学生 ,虽然已脱离孩子的群体 ,但尚不能履行成人的责任和义务 ,因此常被排斥于成人行列之外。其典型的心理表现是内心矛盾、抱负水平不确定和易采取极端立场。”我国心理学家张增杰根据研…     

Women, Evil, and Grey Zones

Gray zones, which develop wherever oppression is severe and lasting, are inhabited by victims of evil who become complicit in perpetrating on others the evils that threaten to engulf themselves. Women, who have inhabited many gray zones, present challenges for feminist theorists, who have long struggled with how resistance is possible under coercive institutions. Building on Primo Levi's reflections on the gray zone in Nazi death camps and ghettos, this essay argues that resistance is sometimes possible, although outsiders are rarely, if ever, in a position to judge when. It also raises questions about the adequacy of ordinary moral concepts to mark the distinctions that would be helpful for thinking about how to respond in a gray zone.     

管理心理学课程的教学改革

如何有效实施大学生素质教育是当前高等教育改革的核心内容．课堂教学是大学生受教育最普遍、用时最多的教育活动,可谓素质教育的主渠道。高校教师在课堂教学中．如何结合所授课程的学科特点．进行教学改革实现素质教育目的,具有普遍的重要意义。在管理心理学课程教学中,向学生传授知识的同时．如何促使大学生形成健康的学习心理机制,培养大学生以思维能力为核心能力的多种能力素质。达到优化大学生综合素质的教学目标。笔者就这一课题在97届、98届、99届等三届财会专业学生作了有益的教学改革探索,且卓有成效。     

Transcendence, Symbolic Immortality and Evil

Ernest Becker’s work addresses the implications that arise from being aware of our own mortality. Like Sartre, Becker recognises that human beings have the potential to transcend and look beyond their immediate situation, but his work also confronts the darker aspects of human existence that arise from our self-awareness. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of Becker’s work and to show the potential of Becker’s theory of evil to inform a number of contemporary debates in the social sciences. Although Becker’s work directly examines why human beings can act so inhumanly towards one another, his theory is not altogether pessimistic. The paper concludes by arguing that Becker’s theory intended to create new possibilities for living in more creative and humane world.     

Compatibilism,Evil, and the Free-Will Defense

It is widely believed that (1) if theological determinism were true, in virtue of God’s role in determining created agents to perform evil actions, created agents would be neither free nor morally responsible for their evil actions and God would not be perfectly good; (2) if metaphysical compatibilism were true, the free-will defense against the deductive problem of evil would fail; and (3) on the assumption of metaphysical compatibilism, God could have actualized just any one of those myriad possible worlds that are populated only by compatibilist free creatures. The primary thesis of this essay is that none of these propositions is true. This thesis is defended by appealing to a recently proposed novel, acausal, composite, unified theory of free action – the Theory of Middle Freedom – that evades the central problems plaguing traditional theories of metaphysical compatibilism.