Program Schedule and Themes
2025 CPA Program Coming Soon
Highlights
June 11th, 2025
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
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
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 & Philosophy of Psychology |
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 | Clinical Psychology Addiction Psychology Counselling Psychology Health Psychology & Behavioural Medicine Traumatic Stress Psychopharmacology |
Improving and promoting health |
| Strengthening communities by seeking to understand and address the specific needs of a given community | Community Psychology Rural & Northern Psychology Criminal Justice Psychology Indigenous Peoples’ 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 & 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 | Family Psychology Social & Personality Psychology Extremism & Terrorism International & Cross-Cultural Psychology |
Understanding society and the world around us |
| Understanding what contributes to how the mind and brain works – or doesn’t work | Brain & Cognitive Science 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 | Black Psychology Section Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Women and Psychology |
Promoting Human Rights and Social Justice |
| Exploring development across the lifespan from infancy, childhood, adolescence, adults, older adults and through to retirement | Developmental Psychology Adult Development & Aging Psychologists and Retirement |
Exploring life stages |
| Highlighting the ways in which psychology can and does inform public policy | CPA Corporate Sessions |
Informing public policy |
| Examining issues related to our discipline as a profession including accreditation, ethics, funding, training | Psychology Careers Section Accreditation Ethics 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 | Teaching of Psychology Educational &School Psychology Sport & Exercise Psychology Students |
Examining what, where, when, why and how we learn and perform |