Society for Research in Adult Development Announces the 28th Annual Symposium and Call for Submissions

2013 Adult Development Symposium  
http://adultdevelopment.org/

Salem State University
352 Lafayette Street Salem, MA 01970
Friday, June 21-Sunday, June 23

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2013
11:59 PM EDT

TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS of your proposed presentation, and for ONLINE REGISTRATION, click here or visit http://adultdevelopment.org/registration.php

 The Symposium includes presentations of data and theory on a variety of topics relevant to positive adult development. Positive adult development refers to development starting in late adolescence and continuing through life. The focus is on expanded capabilities and changes that improve the quality of life. This symposium is especially important to the faculty and students involved in the courses and graduate programs for which adult development is relevant. The Society has a particular interest in encouraging state of the art research, discussion and presentations on populations that have not been traditionally studied. Click here for more information about Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD).

 Because this Society is dedicated to positive adult development, sessions are organized to foster discussion and interaction among participants as much as possible. This makes the listener, as well as the presenter, more of an active participant and permits both to engage in dialogue on the topics presented.

 The international membership of the SRAD includes people from all disciplines who are interested in positive adult development. It has 480 members.

 Society members include those whose work is applied as well as academic writers and researchers. We extend an invitation to those interested in adult development at work, in school, in families, and in communities as well as those whose primary focus is the individual. The Society offers practitioners an opportunity to discover the latest ideas in the field and to explore the application of those ideas to everyday problems and challenges.

 For theoreticians and researchers, the Society offers the following opportunities:

 
• to share your ideas with other theoreticians and researchers through the exchange of papers;
• to explore your ideas and others in a deeper way through relating them to daily life and its problems and opportunities;
 

• To explore the applications of your ideas by working on them with practitioners in many fields.
 
Challenges to conventional wisdom are especially welcome in all submissions.

Topics include and are not limited to:

 
Secondary Education  
Post-Secondary Education 
Adult Education (Life Long Learning)
Professional Development Programs
Community Settings and Politics
Consultative Settings
Organizational Settings
Therapeutic Settings
Other Settings
Transitions from Adolescence
Life Periods and Seasons
Identity
Intelligence
Motivation
Pathology

Responsibilities
Roles
Cognitive Development
Emotional Development
Moral Development
Performance Development
Relationship Development
Religious Development
Spirituality Development
Positive Aging
Whole-person Development
Wisdom Development
Measurement Methods
Methodological Issues
Models of Development
 
Format of Presentations:

The sessions are comprised of interactive poster presentations. The emphasis will be on visual presentations accompanied by dialogues with small groups of people.  Most people informally interact with presenters in this venue around the posters. A brief presentation to the group at large precedes the poster period. The poster period is followed by full group discussion. Full papers or short summaries should be made available as hard copy handouts.

Symposium Fees

Professional $60 ($75 at the door)
Student $35 ($40 at the door)

(Limited, partial student scholarships for registration fee only may be available; contact commons@tiac.net) 

Register for the Adult Development Symposium online: http://adultdevelopment.org/register_now.html

Alternatively, you may register by mail; send a check (made payable to the Society for Research in Adult Development) with full contact information to:

Michael Lamport Commons, Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
234 Huron Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138-1328

QUESTIONS? CONTACT Michael Lamport Commons at commons@tiac.net

 
 Local Organizing Committee
 
  We have proposed these people for part of the planning and organizing committee:
 
  Alice LoCicero      Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology at Boston Medical Center.
  Michael Mascolo    Merrimack College
  Patrice Marie Miller  Salem State University Faculty, Coordinator of MS Program in Counseling and Psychological Services
  Joanna Gonsalves   Salem State University Faculty
  James Gubbins      Salem State University Faculty
  Andrea Zeren       Salem State University Faculty
  Darlene Crone-Todd  Salem State University Faculty
  Michael Commons   Previous Salem State University Adjunct Faculty
 
 For information about officers and founding members of SRAD, click here.