PROSPECTS AND PROGRESS TOWARDS A PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT ORGANIZED IN PSYCHOLOGY OF AMERICA Experiences of Latin American Congress of Psychology Students and future challenges for continuity in the integration of psychology students from Latin America
A great welcome and more than 2000 students, hosted one of the most important the Americas in Psychology. This is nothing more than the First Latin American Congress of Psychology Students (I COLAEPSI) held on 22, 23, 24 and August 25, 2007 in Lima - Peru, the same as that reached a record among the various student events psychology that have occurred throughout the history of psychology in Latin America.
is noteworthy that this conference is not a new initiative to make a tradition of events to mark the path in Latin America for students of psychology, but there is evidence of record in the past, those students who began to believe in integration, with the purpose of gathering student psychological community towards developing a better psychology.
Returning these efforts, and the purposes of the student organization in psychology, which in the past contributed to the small, isolated early, which in turn formed a small not very widespread historical memory, it is born COLAEPSI in order to generate resources using technology a great network that has the possibility to meet in a physical space within the continent, and so is the way to knowledge that goes beyond borders, and that the bonds of brotherhood and cultural similarity between our sister nations.
The 1st Latin American Congress of Psychology Students, was presented with the title: "Integrating a psychology applied to our reality," giving rise to bring together the various themes of Psychology, adhered to our own context. Thus, there was participation than 121 keynote and student, which covered the 14 thematic areas, the project board had arranged COLAEPSI-SOLEPSI. Within this large number of proposals set a trend manifested itself to the themes of Clinical Psychology and Health, more so, Community Social Psychology in second place and Research Methods in Psychology in third place, being the areas of Epistemology, Legal and Sport, the trend of lower participation and developed, so we dare say that there would be a greater focus on the work within the professional practice of psychologists, for students training in psychology in Latin America.
One of the great challenges which shows the completion of COLAEPSI, it becomes, the consolidation of the Latin American Society of Psychology Students (SOLEPSI) and detached from the next goal to achieve by this Congress who were and are the overall coordinators of the Project COLAEPSI-SOLEPSI, which will have to overcome the challenge of achieving the best means of channeling of ideas that work for what had already been raised and the continued development of Latin American psychology students.
We are aware that the achievements of the congress was an achievement of all students and pointing in that direction and that achieving awaiting the next congress is to exceed expectations of this.
The board SOLEPSI Project coordinator, had a central presence in the event. During the days 23, 24 and 25 meetings took Carl Rogers in the classroom of the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, which were directed by the President of the Board of the project COLAEPSI - SOLEPSI, who accompanied university coordinators of 22 national and international level and the representative Project Public Relations, had a decisive participation in general central coordination will ensure consolidation of the draft. Completed the sessions, was released to the central coordinators of the project SOLEPSI, two representatives of the Board, who will be responsible for viable forms of organization and develop future goals, in which the COLAEPSI be their central meeting point, to overcome future challenges.
In this way, the community Psychology student, looks forward to this great start many of the institutions of the student organization in Latin America to begin crucial to the development, processing, promotion and extension of psychology. This may help lead to significant advances in the fields of training future researchers and professional psychologists in an effort to achieve better discipline and profession in the course of time addressing the main issues of concern to society in general and especially in the countries of the region with similar social problems.
The historical forces, more than anything, reflect what happened in various documents and information sources that serve as important precedents, to mark the events of development of the student organization in psychology. These references are from the establishment of the Report - Report, whose authors wrote this article, as Secretary General of the past 1ST COLAEPSI - 2007. En ese sentido, dicho documento, facilitará los procesos de formación y ejecución de cualquier congreso estudiantil y profesional dentro del ámbito de la Psicología. Tal es así que se ha publicado en la web dicho documento con todas las diversas experiencias que se vivió antes y durante las fechas del congreso, en las siguientes direcciones:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2037903/MemoriaColaepsiParteA , http://www.scribd.com/doc/2038440/Memoria-Colaepsi-Parte-B y http://www.scribd.com/doc/2039170/Memoria-Colaepsi-Parte-C?page=17 .
Se agradece a cada uno y una de las personas que colaboraron y otorgaron la oportunidad de contribute crucially on the realization of this document are worthy of the appreciation of 16 people with me as the board of Project COLAEPSI - SOLEPSI.
precisely, we continue with this great challenge this year, with the election headquarters of the Second Latin American Congress of Psychology Students. Therefore, the Advisory Commission-pliers, marked all his efforts in promoting and spreading the call for proposals recepcionar student. As a hard qualifying assessment and a lot of proposals, evaluation criteria and demarcated. Thus, the latter August 2, 2008, was brought to Paraguay as the new headquarters of COLAEPSI. Quite a challenge and a great privilege to become a huge success compared to that obtained the 1st COLAEPSI. From
and Advisory Committee - overseer, should ensure proper counseling and monitoring the process, so that the organizers of Paraguay, do not feel alone in the task, so that they provide the experiences of the last congress in Lima - Peru.
Christian Jibaja Bernuy
Member CAV - II COLAEPSI
Past-Secretary General
I COLAEPSI - 2007