LANTION, MA. ALEXANDRA B.

BS PSYCH 3-B-4

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Timeline of Key Historical events in Clinical
Psychology in the Philippine Context.

1926 The University of the Philippines Department of Psychology is

established within the School of Education. Agustin Alonzo is
chairman.
1930 The Department of Psychology at the University of Santo Tomas
is established.
1932 Sinforoso Padilla organizes the Psychological Clinic at the
University of the Philippines.
1933 Jesus Perpignan sets up the Far Eastern University Psychological
Clinic.
1938 Angel de Blas, OP, sets up the Experimental Psychology
Laboratory at the University of Santo Tomas.
1948 Estefania Aldaba-Lim sets up the Institute of Human Relations at
Philippine Women’s University.
1949 Toribio Joson of the National Mental Hospital and Manuel
Arguelles founded the PMHA with the aim of promoting the mental
health activities in the country through the provision of clinical services
and public education.
1951 it pioneered a nationwide educational movement through the
endorsement of the first National Mental Health Week, which
subsequently became an annual celebration.
1954 Joseph Goertz establishes the Psychology Department at the
University of San Carlos.
1961 Fr. Jaime Bulatao establishes the Department of Psychology and
the Central Guidance Bureau at the Ateneo de Manila University.
1962 The Philippine Psychological Corporation is founded. The
corporation offers psychological services and is the main retailer of
psychological tests.
The Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP) is founded.
1963 The PAP holds its first annual convention, leading to its first
publication, Symposium on the Filipino Personality.
1965 the PMHA funded the earliest known epidemiologic survey of
mental disorders in the country in Lubao, Pampanga obtaining a 36 per
1,000 population prevalence rate of mental illness in the
community.
1968 The Philippine Journal of Psychology, the official journal of the
PAP makes its first appearance.
The PAP, together with the Philippine Association of Social Workers,
Philippine Economics Society, Philippine National Historical Association,
Philippine Sociological Society, and Philippine Statistical Association
form the Philippine Social Science Council.
1970s Psychology becomes the most popular undergraduate major in
many colleges and universities.
Psychological testing flourishes as the overseas contract workers boom
begins.
1975 The Pambansang Samahan ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino is founded by
Virgilio Enriquez
1975+ Several universities in the Visayas and Mindanao establish
psychology departments.
1982 The PAP decides the time has come for quality control in the
practice of psychology. It introduces a bill in the Batasan Pambansa that
would require practicing psychologists to be licensed.
1985 Amaryllis T. Torres is named an Outstanding Young Scientist by
the NAST “In recognition of her researches in population, industrial
psychology, social development and participatory strategies, and in
evaluation studies, as well as her work on human development
training.”
1986 EDSA Revolution overthrows the Marcos dictatorship.
Psychologists play a key role in the new government’s Moral Recovery
Program.
1987 Ma. Lourdes Arrelano-Carandang’s book Filipino Children Under
Stress is published. The book is cited by the Catholic Mass Media
Awards for “its facscinating probe of a sad social concern, written in
lucid language for the lay reader who cares deeply about out children”.
1988 Alfredo V. Lagmay is named National Scientist by President
Corazon Aquino.
1990 The PAP is among the founding members of the Afro-Asian
Psychological Association.
Jaime Bulatao is named National Social Scientist by the Philippine Social
Science Council.
1991 Ma. Cecilia G. Conaco is named an Outstanding Young Scientist by
the NAST “In recognition of her pioneering works on ethnicity and
fertility which led to the development of models and ethnic-
specific…population control strategies…in the Philippines. Her other
pioneering works on the psychology f Filipino women and social
cognition have resulted in the development of strategies on persuasion
and attitude change which are very relevant to the country’s national
development efforts.”
1992 The PAP and nine other national psychological associations
establish the Asia-Oceania Psychological Association.
The PAP names Ma. Lourdes Arellano-Carandang, Abraham Felipe, and
Patricia Licuanan as Outstanding Psycholgists.
Jaime C. Bulatao’s Phenomena and Their Interpretation is published.
Virgilio Enriquez publishes From Colonial to Liberation Psychology.
1994 Ma. Lourdes Arellano-Carandang is named National Social
Scientist by the Philippine Social Science Council.
1995 The PAP hosts a regional conference of the International Council
of Psychologists with the theme “Psychological Issues in a Growing
Global Community”. The proceedings are later published in a book,
Understanding Behavior, Bridging Cultures.
The PAP names Virgilio Enriquez, Allen Tan, and Amaryllis Tiglao-Torres
as Outstanding Psychologists.
Allan B.I. Bernardo is named Outstanding Young Scientist Award by the
National Academy of Science and Technology “in recognition of his
significant research studies on the roles of language and other
contextual factors in the development of higher-order cignitive
processes and representation particularly in the are of mathematical
cognition, that provide scientific bases for rationalizing educational
practice and reform”.
1998 The PAP hosts the 4th biannual Afro-Asian Psychological
Association.
Ma. Emma Concepcion D. Liwag, is named an Outstanding Young
Scientist by the NAST “In recognition of her significant scientific
research works on the emotional and cognitive development of
children…Her work…provides scientific knowledge that can be used to
guide therapy for children who experience traumatic or highly
emotional events, and to design educational programs to prepare
children for the cognitive challenges of the 21st century, is unmatched
by any other psychologist in the country.”
Cristina J. Montiel receives the Distinguished Contribution Award from
the Psychologists for Social Responsibility of the American Psychological
Association “For her unwavering commitment to social justice in her
personal and professional life.” Her work is a model for those who
aspire to do peace activism and scholarship, to combine passion with
analytical rigor, and to speak with both their heart and mind. The APA
Division of Peace Psychology also confers on her the Outstanding
Service Award.
1999 Ma. Emma Concepcion Liwag, Alma de la Cruz, and Ma. Elizabeth
Macapagal of the Ateneo Wellness Center complete a thorough review
of gender socialization in the Philippines for the United Nations
Children’s Fund: How We Raise Our Daughters and Sons.
2002 Allan B.I. Bernardo is awarded the National Research Council of
the Philippines Achievement Award “in recognition of his distinguished
career as a prolific researcher and author, respected professor, and
academic leader; for original contributions to the field of cognitive
science and especially human problem solving, mathematical cognition,
bilingual cognition, cultural and contextual factors in thinking and
theories of intelligence, as well as applications of cognitive science to
education which has won for him prestigious national and international
awards and fellowships for teaching and research; and for being a
guiding light for young scholars and academics, thus ensuring the
continued growth of psychology as a discipline.”
The PAP confers the title of Outstanding Psychologist to 6
psychologists: Betty Abregana, Anna Daisy Javier Carlota, Noemi
Catalan, Rosemarie Salazar Clenenia, Elizabeth R. Ventura, and Imelda
Virginia Villar.
2006 Only 3–5% of the total health budget is spent on mental health
and the majority of this is spent on the operation and maintenance of
psychiatric hospitals (WHO and the Department of Health,
2006 The ratio of mental health workers to the population in the
Philippines is low at 2–3 per 100 000 population (WHO-AIMS Report;
WHO and the Department of Health,
2010 200 000 people were identified to have a disability due to mental
disorders (Philippines Statistics Authority,)
2011 The incidence of suicide has increased decade on decade, rising
from 0.23 to 3.59 per 100 000 in males and from 0.12 to 1.09 per 100
000 in females between 1984 and 2005
2016 The Philippines is an autonomous republic located in the western
Pacific, with a population of over 100 million people (Philippines
Statistics Authority)
2017 the Philippine Mental Health Act was passed in the congress and
senate.
2017 in a historic vote, the Senate of the Philippines conducted its third
and final reading and subsequently passage of the Senate Bill 1354,
otherwise known as the Philippine Mental Health Act of 2017.
21 June 2018 The first mental health act legislation in the history of the
Philippines has been officially signed into law and was enacted as the
Republic Act no. 11036

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