Program Schedule and Themes

2025 CPA Program Coming Soon

Highlights

June 11th, 2025

Pre-Convention Workshops, details coming soon
5:00 pm First Time Attendee Reception

June 12th, 2025

8:30 am Opening Ceremonies with Elder Blessings
9:00 am Presidential Address by Dr. Anita Gupta
11:15 am Residency Fair
1:00 pm Honorary Presidential Address by Dr. Gord Flett
2:00 pm Job Fair
6:00 pm Awards Ceremony and Welcome Reception

June 13th, 2025

8:00 am CPA Annual General Meeting
1:00 pm Plenary Keynote Speaker Dr. Esther Greenglass
6:00 pm Social Event

June 14th, 2025

10:00 am Plenary Keynote Address by Dr. Catherine Connelly

*Note that all times for scheduled sessions are in Newfoundland Standard Time (GMT-3:30).

Program Themes

Theme Description	Section Programming	Theme
Examining our discipline and various psychological constructs from a theoretical, historical and/or philosophical lens	History, Theory, and Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (HTQ) Section	Exploring intellectual roots
Working to change human behavior to restore our environment	Environmental Psychology	Creating a healthy(ier) planet
Helping people make healthy lifestyle choices, facilitating peak human performance, and improving the treatment of complex human problems	Addiction Psychology Clinical Psychology Counselling Psychology Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Psychopharmacology Traumatic Stress Section	Improving and promoting health
Strengthening communities by seeking to understand and address the specific needs of a given community	Community Psychology Criminal Justice Psychology Indigenous Peoples’ Psychology Rural and Northern Psychology	Serving communities
Understanding what contributes to a successful workplace; what impact the workplace has on our lives and well-being	Industrial/Organizational Psychology Psychologists in Hospitals and Health Centres Psychology in the Military	Understanding and improving the workplace
Highlights the ways in which psychological research – methods, analyses, design – can be improved and better used to inform the science, practice and education of psychology	Quantitative Methods	Improving psychological research
Helping people understand the world and improve our interactions within society and the people in our lives	Extremism and Terrorism Family Psychology International and Cross-Cultural Psychology Social and Personality Section	Understanding society and the world around us
Understanding what contributes to how the mind and brain works – or doesn’t work	Brain and Cognitive Sciences Clinical Neuropsychology Quantitative Electrophysiology	Understanding the mind and the brain
Exploring the ways in which psychology – from the lenses of practice, science and education – can, does or should promote equity, diversity and inclusivity	Asian Psychology Black Psychology Section on Women And Psychology (SWAP) Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	Promoting Human Rights and Social Justice
Exploring development across the lifespan from infancy, childhood, adolescence, adults, older adults and through to retirement	Aging & Geropsychology Developmental Psychology Psychologists and Retirement	Exploring life stages
Highlighting the ways in which psychology can and does inform public policy	CPA Head Office	Informing public policy
Examining issues related to our discipline as a profession including accreditation, ethics, funding, training	Accreditation Ethics Psychology Careers and Professionals Internship Fair	Professional and training issues
Examining how people learn and helping facilitate peak performance in the classroom, on the playing field, and in other situations that require physical and mental execution	Educational & School Psychology Sport and Exercise Psychology Students Teaching of Psychology	Examining what, where, when, why and how we learn and perform