Together with the Developmental Psychology Expertise Group, the Psychology Doctoral Program held an intensive course program “Recent Developments in Developmental Psychology Research” which lasted 3 days (28-30/4). Starting with a keynote speech from Dr. Maria Goretti Adiyanti with the topic “Understanding Life Span Development and the Significance of Developmental Research in Various Contexts” on the first day and ended by Pradyta Putri Pertiwi, Ph.D & Aaron Opdyke, Ph.D., CPEng., PE, NER as a speaker on the topic “Inclusion and Role of People with Dissabilities and Older Person in Disaster and Humanitarian Response”. Through this topic, Aaron explained how physical and psychosocial needs intersect, what the psychological impact is, what if there is a role played by the built environment, and how to understand the relationship between physical and psychosocial needs in reducing disaster risk.

Through her keynote speech, Maria explained that using a lifespan perspective is related to how we perceive growth, development, change and stability throughout human life. “For S3, when asked what the main consideration is, I will put more emphasis on basic research. Basic research development which aims to improve, broaden the knowledge base, and achieve a better and more detailed understanding of a developmental phenomenon, “said Maria.

Then the first day was followed by a second session at 10.00 WIB with the speaker Hanifah Nurul Fatimah, S.Psi., M.Sc. Hanifah conveyed about “Neutral Substrate of the Semantic Fluency and Overall Cognitive Development in Preschool Children” which was her first thesis research. “This study is part of a large study which actually has a long-term goal to examine well being or psychological well-being in early childhood, namely from both an emotional and a cognitive aspect,” explained Hanifah.

Furthermore, the intensive course program discussed the topic “Self-Determination of Children and Adolescents in Youth-Led Research” with the speaker Elga Andriana, Ph. D & Michelle L. Bonati, Ph.D from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Through this topic, Bonati explained the elements of Self-Determination consisting of Self-Awareness, Self-Knowledge, choice making, goal setting, problem solving, decision making, Self-Regulation & Self-Management, Self-Advocacy, and Leadership. Meanwhile, Sutarimah Ampuni, Ph.D (Cand) started the second session starting at 13.00 with the topic “Prosocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents”.

On the third day as the last day of a series of intensive courses, T. Novi Poespita Candra, Ph.D as a speaker in the first session with the topic “The Impact of Distance Learning on Adolescent Social Emotional Development”. Through this topic, Novi explained that Indonesia had reached the second rank from the bottom in 2015 related to education. This is very worrying and the condition continues to decline. “This should be our anxiety, especially maybe our friends or all of us who are studying Cognitive Psychology. What’s this? “, Said Novi.

Then in the second session which started at 1:00 p.m., Pradyta Putri Pertiwi, Ph.D & Aaron Opdyke, Ph.D., CPEng., PE, NER served as speakers with the topic “Inclusion and Role of People with Dissabilities and Older Person in Disaster. and Humanitarian Response ”. Pradyta said, “The theory which is very well known in Developmental Psychology and this bioecological is from Bronfenbrenner, which suggests that human development is cross-context, yes. There are micro, meso, exosystem, and macron contexts. However, what is often overlooked, as noted by Mrs. Maria, is the cronosystem. That all aspects or elements of this developmental context are mutually dynamic. They are related to each other, develop each other to influence human development”.

The UGM Psychology Doctoral Program with the Organizational Change and Development Expertise Group (KBK) for 3 days (7-9 / 4) days held an Intensive Course on “Recent Developments in Industrial & Organizational Psychology Research”. This event was opened by Dr. Nida Ul Hasanat, M.Si as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Psychology UGM for Academic and Student Affairs. Nida thanked all those who supported this event, as well as officially opening the event.

The first day of this event started at 13.00 WIB and with the topic “Recent Issues on Performance & Career for Millennials” which was filled by Dr. Noor Siti Rahmani, M.Sc., Psychologist and Dr. Sumaryono, M.Sc., Psychologist. Through this topic, Rahmani explained that performance management is one of them with behavioristic theory which consists of stimuli and responses which in the output will strengthen or weaken according to the quality of performance produced by workers. Therefore, assessing the work performance and work behavior of each employee is important so that the company can strengthen or weaken performance or work behavior appropriately.

Unfortunately, this is not easy because there are still many companies that have not been able to optimally assess the performance of each employee. “Assessment of work performance and work behavior is very crucial because in the world of work you will find work performance and work behavior that do not measure performance. We have encountered so many things that if it is related to reward (then) the reward is also wrong”, explained Rahmani

Furthermore, Sumaryono also explained that the definition of career for millennials is no longer the same as the definition of career in previous eras. In the previous era, careers were an organizational property and were understood as position developments. However, nowadays millennials consider career as individual property where career is considered the same as developing potential. “Now, when we talk about careers as individual property, it becomes a new problem because they do not only focus on organizational demands, but also focus on the demands of developing their (self) potential”, explained Sumaryono.

Then, the second session on the first day was continued at 15.30 WIB with the topic “Recent Issues on Leadership & Followers in Organizations, which was filled by Drs. I. J. K. Sito Meiyanto, Ph.D., Psychologist & Ridwan Saptoto, M.A., Psychologist. At the beginning of his presentation, Sito traced the early history of leadership formation. Meanwhile, Ridwan focused on explaining which direction the leadership model would lead.

On the second day, the intensive course was continued with Dra. Sri Hartati, M.Sc., Psychologist & Taufik Achmad Dwipurto, M.Sc., Psychologist as the speaker in the first session. Sri and Taufik delivered material related to the topic “Recent Issues on Training and Development”. Through this topic, the speakers conveyed that the background of this event was to change or develop training and human resource development to align with the strategic objectives of each company.

The event continued with Rizqi Nur’aini A’yuninnisa, M.Sc and Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi., Ph.D., a psychologist as speakers in the second session. Rizqi and Galang discussed material related to the topic “Recent Issues on Flourishing & Agility at Work”. Rizqi explained that flourishing exists because of mental health which can be overcome with subjective psychologist well-being, emotional well-being, and social well-being. “Well being is subjective happiness. Not just how to feel happy, but physiologically there are hormones produced in the body, that’s a hedonic approach. However, if it is seen from the eudaimonic approach, it is more profound, beyond pleasure, that happiness is when you become a whole individual ”.

After that, Galang continued the explanation about agility related to stress and change. Agility is a person’s ability to deal with stress. “Not everyone has the same ability to deal with stress. Agility here is the willingness and ability to learn from experience and apply it to something new, ”explained Galang.

The intensive course program is closed by raising 3 topics that are no less interesting. The topic raised was “Behind the Scene: Finding Motivation at Work & Creating Meaning Through Leader Perspective with Dr. Bagus Riyono, M.A., Psychologist & Indrayanti, M.Sc., Ph.D., Psychologist. Then the next topic on “Individual Differences in Rationality: Measurement and Potential Benefits” was delivered by Rahmat Hidayat, M.Sc., Ph.D. Meanwhile, the last session on the third day discussed the topic “Recent Issues of Indigenization in I/O Research and Data Analysis in I/O Research” presented by Prof. Faturochman, MA, Dr. Avin Fadilla Helmi, M.Sc., And Wahyu Jati Anggoro, S.Psi., MA.

Tuesday (23/3) Office of Cooperatian, International Affairs, and Alumni (OCIA) Faculty of Psychology UGM held a guest lecture with the topic “Ethical Issues in Group Counseling”. The event, which was attended by 150 participants, took place from 07.30 WIB to 09.10 WIB. This event is a series of International Guest Lecture Series events held by OCIA this year.

The keynote speaker for this event was Manali Roy, Ph.D, who is a Clinical Psychologist from the North Central Bronx Hospital. Roy explained about group therapy, including the types of group therapy, namely therapy groups open, close, psychoeducational groups, and process-oriented groups. “A closed group is something where everyone starts at one point and everyone ends at the same point and no one gets out of the group,” explained Roy.

Meanwhile, psychoeducational groups are therapy groups that select a topic and then discuss it by a therapist who acts as a teacher. Topics or issues chosen include overcoming anxiety, “Therapists teach healthy skills and set goals for groups”, explains Roy. In addition, in psychoeducational groups, a therapist does not need to pay too much attention to the dynamics between members of the group. Slightly different from psychoeducational groups, process-oriented groups have an agenda that pays more attention to the dynamics that occur in the group, “How someone behaves, how someone responds to others”.

Then the explanation was followed by exposure related to therapeutic factors. There are 13 things that become therapeutic factors, one of which is universality. The meaning of universality is when members of the group share about their feelings, share thoughts, or some problems that may be the same, it will make you feel not alone when facing everything. “Feelings of feeling not alone are the most important factor in group therapy because members will understand that many people also have many difficult problems, have different problems and feelings of not being alone help members in the therapy process”, explained Roy.

In addition to explaining the type of therapy group and therapeutic factors, Roy also explained its relation to the general principles of standard group counseling ethics. Based on Roy’s explanation, there are five general principles of ethical standards, namely beneficience and nonmaleficence, fidelity, and responsibility, integrity, justice, and respect for people’s rights, and dignity. Then Roy continued his explanation of the code of ethics, which consisted of several things, including resolving ethical issues, competence, human relations, privacy and confidence, and so on.

After the material presentation session ended, the committee opened a question and answer session for the participants. Although at first they looked doubtful due to limited language skills, in the end the participants actively asked questions after the committee gave encouragement not to be afraid of making mistakes even though their English language skills were limited. The committee hopes that by holding this event the participants can understand more about the code of ethics related to group counseling so that in the future there will be no violation of the code of ethics that can harm various parties.

In order to improve scientific writing skills in Indonesian, the UGM Psychology Doctoral Program held an Intensive Academic Writing Skills Course which will take place on Monday (1/3) and Tuesday (2/3) March 2021. The event is divided into four sessions, each of which focuses on the topics of “Scientific Writing is Fun”, “Diagnosis of Writing Ability”, “Writing Process” and “Examples of Simple Writing” were filled in by Drs. Heru Marwata, M.Hum. Through this event, Heru challenges each participant as well as guiding and correcting mistakes made by the participants. In addition, this event also provides a lot of knowledge in writing that can be continuously trained so that in the future it can be even better.

According to Heru, there are several important things that need to be considered when writing, namely conjunctions, spelling (EYD/PUEBI), diction (choice of words), sentences (effective), paragraphs and writing or essays. The hope is that when participants get to know the Indonesian sentence structure, they will be able to formulate correct and good sentences.

Furthermore, Heru also explained the linguistic aspects related to whether an idea was good or not and how well the idea was conveyed. There are also aspects of aesthetic that are supported by choosing the right diction, for example using a tone ending that sounds the same. The choice of diction can be done when the writer has many choices of diction and increasing the choice of diction can be done by reading. In addition, the choice of words/diction is very important because it contains the spirit of the sentence and the spirit of the sentence will affect the paragraph. The choice of the right words will also affect the effectiveness of the sentences we compose. “Sentences should be read out in one breath”, explained Heru.

On the second day, Heru explained the writing process and showed some examples of simple writing. According to Heru, scientific work is influenced by the writer’s mastery and understanding of the written material, the ability to structure ideas, how to formulate problems, and how to convey goals. Apart from that, Heru also gave tips to the participants regarding the writing process by suggesting an outline. “Using an essay framework will help the writer coordinate ideas before starting to write, make it easier to find relevant material, and can show the main part of the writing to the author,” said Heru.

Apart from the outline of the essay, the selection of topics and titles were also tips offered by Heru to the participants in the writing process. In choosing a topic, the writer is advised to choose a topic that is useful, feasible, interesting, mastered, easy to get written material, actual, not too broad/narrow, and representative. “Topics that are not interesting for writers will later become a burden and hinder the writing process,” said Heru.

At the end of the session, Heru said that writing is not an activity in the heart, but an action that must be tried and tried is a measure of one’s courage. “To process sentences requires experience of skills that are obtained through practice, practice, practice,” explained Heru.

Mulai Senin (15/2), Fakultas Psikologi UGM menyelenggarakan kegiatan “Intensive Course : Multimethod and Mixed Research”. Kegiatan ini diselenggarakan oleh Program Studi Doktor Ilmu Psikologi bekerja sama dengan Center of Life-Span Development (CLSD) yang berlangsung selama tiga hari hingga Rabu (17/2).

Peserta kegiatan ini berjumlah 97 orang yang terdiri dari 18 orang mahasiswa S3 Psikologi, 6 orang intern magang, dan 73 orang peserta umum. Peserta umum bervariasi mulai mahasiswa hingga ibu rumah tangga. Acara dibuka dengan sambutan Kepala CLSD, Elga Andriana, S.Psi, M.Ed, Ph.D.

Pada hari pertama materi disampaikan oleh Praditya Putri Pertiwi, Ph.D., dosen Fakultas Psikologi UGM  yang membawakan materi yang berjudul “Multimethod Research: An Overview. Istilah multimethod research tampak belum familier bagi para peserta. Hal ini terlihat dari hasil polling yang menggambarkan bahwa lebih dari separuh peserta hanya sebatas pernah mendengar istilah multimethod.  Selanjutnya peserta juga masih kesulitan membedakan multimethod research dan mix method.

Dengan mengenalkan istilah “Working Across Borders” Praditya menjernihkan definisi dan bentuk multimethod research yang unik dan berbeda dengan mixed method. Melakukan multimethod research memungkinkan peneliti bertemu dengan peneliti lain dari berbagai bidang keilmuan yang mempunyai metode dan paradigma berbeda-beda untuk memecahkan satu permasalahan penelitian. Praditya menganalogikan multimethod research itu seperti berenang di lintas batas disiplin ilmu.

“Adanya perbedaan paradigma di setiap disiplin keilmuan membuat peneliti mengkritik satu sama lain. Terjadilah paradigm wars atau perang paradigma. Hal itu membatasi kita mendapatkan sudut pandang yang utuh. Batasan pada tiap keilmuan justru perlu di-breakdown untuk dapat mencapai contact zone” jelas Praditya.

Selanjutnya pada hari kedua Praditya melanjutkan penjelasan lebih mendalam tentang multimethod research. Melalui judul materi “Integration and Data Consolidation in Multimethod Research” ia memberikan gambaran pada peserta bagaimana proses pengolahan dan pengintegrasian data dalam multimethod research. Selain itu Praditya juga menjelaskan tentang etika dalam multimethod research.

Pada sesi kedua di hari kedua, acara diisi oleh Dr. Avin Fadilla Helmi, M.Si. dengan membawakan materi yang berjudul “Mixed Method Research: An Overview”. Di kesempatan ini Avin memulai penjelasannya dari sejarah munculnya mixed method dalam ranah penelitian ilmiah.

Dibandingkan dengan metode kualitatif dan kuantitatif, metode mixed method masih terbilang cukup baru. Pada tahun 1950 – 1980 an mulai ada ketertarikan peneliti menggunakan lebih dari satu metode. Pada tahun-tahun setelahnya penelitian mixed method semakin banyak dilakukan seiring berkembangnya tuntutan zaman. ”Kompleksitas masalah lebih besar, tidak bisa hanya mengandalkan angka. Jadi kombinasi antara angka dan kata itu sangat penting“ Jelas Avin.

Pada hari ketiga, Edilburga Wulan Saptandari, M.Psi., Ph.D. membawakan materi berjudul ”Design and Data Collection in Mixed Method Research”. Dalam pemaparannya ini Edilburga menjelaskan tentang bagaimana kita merancang penelitian menggunakan mixed method.

Penelitian mixed method mempunyai tiga jenis desain umum yaitu convergent mixed method design, explanatory sequential mixed method design, dan exploratory sequential mixed method design. Ketiga desain itu dipilih sesuai dengan kebutuhan penelitian. “Dalam penelitian eklektif atau campuran, kita memakai metode yang paling sesuai dengan pertanyaan penelitian, yang dapat menjawab pertanyaan penelitian” Jelas Edilburga sembari memberikan contoh penelitian dari tiap-tiap desain.

Pada sesi terakhir, kembali diisi oleh Edilburga Wulan Saptandari, M.Psi., Ph.D. dan Dr. Avin Fadilla Helmi, M.Si., dengan membawakan materi “Data Analysis and Interpretation in Mixed Method Research”.

Acara berlangsung lancar dan interaktif, pemateri secara aktif mengajak peserta berdiskusi dan memberikan tugas-tugas yang diselesaikan peserta secara berkelompok di setiap sesi. Penyelenggara berharap semua peserta bisa menikmati acara pelatihan intensif ini dan mendapatkan manfaatnya dengan semakin produktif di kehidupan dan profesi masing-masing.

After the opening of the Basic Experiment Method Course on Monday, December 7, 2020, Mind, Brain and Behavior Laboratory continue to organize the event on Tuesday, December 8, 2020 to Thursday, December 10, 2020.

The agenda for the second to fourth day course are material about experimental research design to practice on arranging and analyzing experiment data.

On the second day, the session was start at 1.00 PM with the topic called Experimental Design and Sampling which presented by Dra. Sri Kusrohmaniah, M.Si., Ph.D. She deliver material about introduction of various experimental design, how to recruit participants, determine inclusion and exclusion criteria.

There are some examples of experimental designs including design comparison treatment control, pretest posttest control group design, factorial design and so on. Furthermore, she also share about experimental research she had conducted briefly. The research was implemented on rats, by giving alcohol and caffeine consumption for 60 days as the treatment, then she count the number of nerve cells in the rat’s hippocampus.

The second session was continued with material about Manipulation in Experimental Research by Bhina ​​Patria, S.Psi., M.A., Dr. rer. pol. and continued with Analysis in Experimental Research by Wahyu Widhiarso, S.Psi., M.A. Wahyu explained the importance of understanding statistics in a research, especially experimental research. “The success of an experiment depends on the philosophy used by the statistics” he said. Furthermore, he also delivered about covariate and mediator analysis briefly.

On the third and fourth day of the training, participants were divided into 26 groups which consist of 5-6 people. During the third day, participants in the group were exposed with three experimental cases. Each group has to discuss about the experimental design used in the cases, based on the materials from the previous two days in the training. Afterwards, several groups will present the results of the discussions and Satwika Rahapsari, S.Psi, M.A., R-DMT and Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi, Ph.D. will give feedback to the groups.

Similar to the day before, on the fourth day, Thursday, December 10, 2020, each group was directed to discuss data and determine the analysis from the data set prepared by the committee. After the discussion, several groups will present the results of analysis, then it will be discussed together with Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi, Ph.D on the session after for feedback.

The training was closed at 5.00 PM, by giving post-tests to the participants followed by a closing speech session from Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi, Ph.D. as the head of MBB Laboratory. We hope that participants will have a broader understanding of experimental research by joining this event. If the experiment show incoherence results with the hypothesis, researcher could explore the data more and try different apporoach in analyzing the data. Furthermore, Galang said “Back to the mental set, it is important to be persistent and rigorous in order to find phenomena from the experimental data”.

Mind, Brain and Behavior Laboratory (MBB Laboratory) Faculty of Psychology UGM conduct Basic Experiment Method Course online. The event was held for 4 days, start on Monday, December 7 to Thursday, December 10, 2020.

There are 160 participants who take the course, the majority are from DKI Jakarta and DIY and most of them are academics (students and lecturer from public and private university), and also employees from government and private sector.

The event started with opening speech from Prof. Kwartarini Wahyu Yuniarti, MMedSc., Ph.D., Vice Dean for Research, Community Service, and Partnership as representative from the dean. She also thanked MBB Laboratory and Doctor of Psychological Science Program for holding this event.

Furthermore, Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi, Ph.D as the head of the MBB Laboratory conveyed the agenda for the next 3 days, which are presentations from the speakers, and on the third and fourth days participants will be divided into small groups in order to discuss and practice further about designing experimental research and analyzing the data.

After the speech, the first presentation was started with Prof. Dr. Thomas Dicky Hastjarjo. He delivered material about Basic Concepts and Principles In Experimental Research. Furthermore, explain about introduction to the methods and basic principles of experimentation, the advantages and disadvantages of experimental methods, things that need to be prepared in order to conduct an experiment and the mental set of an experimental researcher, which is important for the researcher to always be able to be critical in during the process of the research and analyzing the data. He also emphasized that the causality relationship is the key in experimental research, where the causes are purely the result from manipulation or treatment that given by the researcher.

Later on, after the first session at 1.30 – 3.00 PM, the course continued to the second session at 3.30 – 5.00 PM with the topic called Research Variables, Research Variables and Confounding Variables delivered by Galang Lufityanto, M.Psi, Ph.D. He conveyed the concept of variables, the importance of operational definitions in experimental research, scaling in measurement, the concept of reliability in experiments and various kinds of confounding variables. Besides, he also provided some applicable examples of the concept of causality in experimental research.

Through this activity, committee hoped that this can increase the knowledge by sharing experiences from the presenters, so the participants will be able to capture the implicit and explicit knowledge, in order to be become more advance in experimental research.

Center for Lifespan and Development (CLSD) Faculty of Psychology UGM organize narrative research method course. The event was held for two days, start on Friday, December 4 to Saturday, December 5, 2020.

Attended by 60 participants from academic background with majority of doctoral students from Faculty of Psychology UGM, the first session was start with the topic titled History and Development of Narrative Research that presented by the first speaker, Edilburga Wulan Saptandari, M.Psi., Ph.D., Psychologist at 8.00 – 9.00 AM.

Material about Theory and Design of Narrative Research and Methods and Practices of Narrative Data Collection was delivered by the second speaker, Made Diah Lestari, Ph.D (Cand). The session divided into two parts, first was start at 9.00 – 11.00 AM and the second was at 1.00 – 3.00 PM. In her presentation, she conveyed various approaches in narrative research, including personal experience, construct identities, story-telling, and approaches that looking further at social situations.

During the second part of material session about Data Collection Techniques, Made state that biographies, diaries and photos can become source of data that can be used in narrative research, “For example participant photos and diaries can be used in research about eating disorders in combination with interviews” she said. According to her, because narrative research is still within qualitative research scoop, the main key of this research is the depth of the data, not the number of respondents.

The second day of the course, Saturday, December 5, 2020, was opened with material about Various Approaches and Practices of Narrative Analysis and Presentation of Narrative Research Results by Dr. Bagus Takwin, M.Hum, a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Indonesia. During the presentation, he delivered the concept of narrative analysis, that based on the interpretive paradigm. The focus of narrative analysis is to be able to understand how individuals interpret their daily life experiences.

After the fifth and sixth session material by Dr. Bagus Takwin, M.Hum, the event continued with sharing and presentation session of a narrative research design that guided by Elga Adriana, S.Psi., M.Ed., Ph.D. She opened the session with an examples of narratives example from her dissertation research about inclusive education.

Followed by presentation about narrative research designs by several participants, the course was ended at 5.00 PM, with closing statement from Rahmat Hidayat, S.Psi., M.Sc., Ph.D. as the Head of the Psychology Doctoral Study Program.