PsySSA Student Division

The Student Division of PsySSA aims to: - Develop an organisational structure for psychology that reconciles historically opposed groups; - To serve the needs and the interests of all South Africas people; - To acknowledge and surpass psychologys role in the apartheid system; - Ensure that the division remains an organ of civil society without an overt or covert loyalty to any political party. - Advance psychology as a science, profession and as a means of promoting human well being; - Actively strive for social justice, opposing policies that deny individuals or groups access to the material and psychological conditions necessary for optimal human development and protesting against any violation of basic human rights; - To establish and maintain the highest standard of ethics; - Engage in policy development processes that are relevant to social enhancement and psychological practice in South Africa; - Promote the rendering or and advancing mental health services to all in South Afr...