- Bogdan BALAN, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Canada
- Petru CURSEU, University Babeș Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- Maria Nicoleta TURLIUC, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași, Romania
- Dragos ILIESCU, University of Bucharest, Romania
- Andrei MIU, University Babeș Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania
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Bogdan BALAN, Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau, Rivière des Prairies Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada
Methodological issues in evaluating the effectiveness of psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and outcome research have a historically complicated relationship. Several key aspects of this interaction will be briefly covered including the initial skepticism, the value of RCTs, implications for mental health policy, and the concept of “common factors” in psychotherapy, integrative models. A number of psychotherapies considered effective for people with borderline personality disorder (MBT, TFP, DBT) will then be described and compared, highlighting conceptual similarities and differences and their impact on the methodology used for outcome evaluation. Borderline personality disorder is a major mental health issue with an up to 25% prevalence in clinical settings and 6% in community settings, severe outcome (1 in 10 will commit suicide) and high economic and emotional costs. For decades it was considered “untreatable” until a new wave of therapy models, strongly grounded in empirical research brought hope to these suffering people – and to their therapists.
Bogdan Balan est professeur au Département des Sciences Infirmières de l’Université du Québec en Outaouais, campus de Saint Jérôme où il est responsable de la formation des infirmières en pratique avancée en santé mentale. Après une formation en psychologie et en médecine humaine, il a soutenu son doctorat en psychologie sociale en 2000 à l’Université « Al.I.Cuza » de Iasi, Roumanie. Il a par la suite été stagiaire postdoctoral au CRISE, UQAM, et est devenu membre de l’Ordre des Psychologues du Québec en 2006. Entre 2006 et 2015, il a pratiqué en tant que psychologue clinicien auprès d’une clientèle jeunesse avec troubles de l’humeur et comportements auto-dommageables à l’Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies. Il est psychothérapeute d’orientation dialectique comportementale (DBT – Linehan) avecune formation intensive en 2009-2010 et a participé à l’implantation d’un des premiers programmes de DBT pour adolescentes au Québec à la Clinique des Troubles de l’Humeur de l’HRDP. Ses intérêts de recherche portent principalement sur la prévention des comportements auto-dommageables et suicidaires chez les adolescents autant à travers des programmes de prévention que par l’utilisation d’interventions spécifiques, selon des modèles soutenus par les données probantes.
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Petru CURSEU, University Babeș Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Collaboration in multi-party systems
Multi-party systems bring together various stakeholder groups or group representatives and offer an platform for sharing their diverse interests, knowledge and expertise in order to develop and realize joint goals. They display complex relational dynamics in which within-group interactions (interpersonal interactions within each stakeholder party) as well as between-group interactions (interactions and negotiations between the stakeholder parties) intertwine to generate bottom-up and top-down influences. Bottom-up influences describe the relational dynamics that arise from the stakeholder parties to influence the larger system as a whole. Top-down influences refer to those relational dynamics that spiral down from the larger system to influence the stakeholder parties. So far, the literature on multi-party systems lacks systematic investigations of these two types of influences. In my presentation, I will explore using a Social Interdependence Theory view, the dynamic interplay between conflict, perceived collaborativeness and conflictuality at multiple system levels, using multi-party simulations and adopting a longitudinal perspective. I will discuss the results in terms of their practical implications for the development of multi-party collaboration as well as their theoretical contributions to the multiparty literature.
Petru L. Curşeu is Professor of Applied Social Psychology and Organizational Behavior. His research interests include team dynamics, social cognition in organizational settings, as well as decision-making. He has published papers on related topics in Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Information Technology, Organization Studies, British Journal of Psychology, Small Group Research, European Journal of Social Psychology, Management Learning, Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, Applied Psychology, Group Dynamics, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Learning and Individual Differences and other journals. Currently he serves as the editor of Team Performance Management.
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Maria Nicoleta TURLIUC, University Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iași, Romania
Relationship Satisfaction. Results from Evidence-Based Research
If happiness is the higher level of subjective well-being, relationship satisfaction (RS) is the overall subjective evaluation of the relationship. In my presentation, I answer first to some questions: ”Are people genetically set up to live happiness at a certain level?”, ”Are married people happier?”. Then, I focus on individual and dyadic perspectives, answering to questions such as:”Am I happy in my relationship/marriage because I am good, thoughtful, and loving?”, ”Am I happy because I have a good partner/husband?”, ”Am I happy due to the way we communicate and interact?”. The individual perspective of RS analyzes the impact of Big 5 traits, other traits, gender, and similarity on relationship satisfaction. In contrast, the dyadic perpective highlights the ideea of interdependence, indicating that outcomes are likely to be correlated due to the shared influence of context (common fate), and to the spouses’ influence on each other (mutual influence). This perspective indicates that people are responsible for their involvement, for their behaviors, emotions, and cognitions lived in the relationship. Finally, I point out how to “build” collective data, insisting on the most recommended statistical strategies in the present research of close relationships.
Maria Nicoleta TURLIUC is a Professor at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University from Iași. She is the director of the Well-being, Stress and Resilience Laboratory, and director of the Centre for Personal Development and Professional Formation. Prof. Turliuc obtained the “Andrew Mellon” postdoctoral grant offerd by Maison des sciences de l’homme (MSH, Paris, France) and Council of American Overseas Research Centers (Washington D.C.), and was director or member of several other research grants. She published 5 author books, coordonated 6 volumes, and published more than 50 book chapters in the country, and abroad. Also, prof. Turliuc published more than 50 studies in ISI and BDI Journals (e.g., Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Family Psychology, International Journal of Stress Management, Journal of Loss and Trauma, Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development etc.).
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Dragos ILIESCU, University of Bucharest, Romania
The impact of technology on psychological assessment
Tehnologia influenteaza radical toate domeniile vietii, iar in lumina evolutiei galopante a tehnologiei, aceasta se insinueaza in aspecte in care pana de curand nu era prezenta. Domeniiul testarii psihologice si comportamentale nu este o exceptie. Totusi, tehnologia nu domina cu adevarat acest domeniu, decat poate la nivel de livrare a testelor. Psihometria nu a invatat inca sa utilizeze cu adevarat oportunitatile oferite de tehnologie. Sunt prezentate o parte din barierele existente la acest moment in fata adoptiei mai radicale a tehnologiei in testare. Sunt prezentate de asemenea cateva evolutii deja consacrate, cu impact serios, care ori deja sunt adoptate pe scara larga, ori vor fi adoptate in urmatorii 5-10 ani, precum testarea online, testarea mobila, supervizarea la distanta, scorarea automata a itemilor construiti (de ex. eseuri), testarea computerizata adaptativa, generarea automata a itemilor, simularile in testare, analiza criminalistica a datelor. In fine, sunt prezentate unele tehnologii disruptive, in general asociate cu falsificarea datelor la testari, care pun presiune pe adoptarea anumitor aspecte tehnologice in testare.
Dragoș Iliescu is a Professor of Psychology with the University of Bucharest. Beside his academic career, he has been active as a consultant for the past 20 years, being involved in and having led important projects related to tests, testing and assessment (among them more than 100 test adaptation projects), mainly in East Europe, but also in Asia, Africa, and South America. His research interests group around two domains: applied psychology in the occupational and human resources area, and psychological assessment, tests and testing (with an important cross-cultural twist). Dragoș Iliescu has served in various capacities for a number of national and international professional associations; he is the current President (2016-2018) of the International Test Commission (ITC). He is an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Psychological Assessment, and the author of over 100 scientific papers, book chapters and books, among them the co-Editor of the acclaimed ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment, published in 2016 by Oxford University Press, and the author of an important monography (Adapting tests in lingvistic and cultural situations) published with Cambridge University Press.
Andrei MIU, University Babeș Bolyai, Cluj Napoca, Romania
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Emotion regulation in daily life
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Andrei Miu is Professor at the Department of Psychology, and the Founding Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Babeș-Bolyai University. He received his B.A. in Psychology from Babeș-Bolyai University, his M.Sc. in Molecular Medicine and Neuroscience from “Iuliu Hațieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Babeș-Bolyai University. His research investigates the psychological and biological underpinnings of emotion and emotion regulation, with the aim of uncovering individual differences that contribute to risk for psychopathology. His graduate and undergraduate courses include Introduction to Neuroscience, Behavioral Genetics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience and Mental Health, and Psychophysiology. andreimiu[at]psychology.ro | ResearchGate Profile | Google Scholar Profile
