Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States
Meeting the Challenges of Globalization
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book describes how economic, political and social factors in different countries affect the science and practice of psychology. It offers recommendations on how the various psychology specialties can be updated to reflect a multicultural viewpoint.
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This book describes how economic, political and social factors in different countries affect the science and practice of psychology. It offers recommendations on how the various psychology specialties can be updated to reflect a multicultural viewpoint.
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The psychology community recognizes that cultivating an international worldview is crucial not only to professionals and researchers, but more importantly, for professors and students of psychology as well. It is critically necessary for psychologists to learn from their colleagues who are working in different cultural contexts in order to develop the type of knowledge and psychological understanding of human behavior that will be maximally useful to practitioners and researchers alike.This volume, Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States, provides information and resources to help psychology faculty educate and train future generations of psychologists within a much more international mindset and global perspective. Recognizing that cultural context are central to a true and accurate psychology, the authors describes how cultural, economic, political, and social factors in different countries frame individual experience and affect the science and practice of psychology. Each of the chapters will provide a content-specific overview of how the curriculum in psychology with regards to social, development, clinical, counseling psychology, etc will need to be modified in order to present a much more global view of psychology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States “
Challenges of a Global Era.- History and Systems of PSychology.- Developmental Psychology.- Social Psychology.- Personality.- Testing and Assessment.- Gender and Psychology.- Clinical Psychology.- Counseling Psychology.- Health Psychology.- Industrial/Organizational Psychology.- Ethnopolitical Psychology.- Professional Psychology.- Conclusion.
Autoren-Porträt
Prof. Dr. Frederick T. L. Leong ist Professor für Psychologie an der Michigan State University in East Lansing, USA, und dort Director des Center for Multicultural Psychology Research.
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2011, XIV, 342 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Frederick Leong, Wade E. Pickren, Mark M. Leach, Anthony J. Marsella
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 1461400724
- ISBN-13: 9781461400721
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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From the reviews:"The book Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States puts psychology into an accurate global perspective. It will appeal to psychologists who want to expand their views of traditional psychology to be more inclusive, contextual, and global. ... It is an easy-to-use quick reference, as well as an in-depth examination. Most of the chapters are straightforward and easy to read, even while covering complex topics. The book can serve as an important guide for faculty who wish to update their courses." (Gloria Grenwald, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 57 (32), August, 2012)
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From the reviews:"The book Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States puts psychology into an accurate global perspective. It will appeal to psychologists who want to expand their views of traditional psychology to be more inclusive, contextual, and global. ... It is an easy-to-use quick reference, as well as an in-depth examination. Most of the chapters are straightforward and easy to read, even while covering complex topics. The book can serve as an important guide for faculty who wish to update their courses." (Gloria Grenwald, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 57 (32), August, 2012)
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