Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States

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Frederick Leong, Wade E. Pickren, Mark M. Leach, Anthony J. Marsella
Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 27, 2011 - Psychology - 342 pages

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.

 

Contents

Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities of a Global Era
1
Internationalizing the History of Psychology Course in the USA
11
Internationalizing the Professional Ethics Curriculum
29
Developmental Psychology
51
Internationalizing the Social Psychology Curriculum in the USA
74
International Issues and Trends
95
Internationalizing Courses in Testing and Assessment
131
Issues and Challenges
156
An Emphasis on School Psychology Internationally
225
Internationalizing the Organizational Psychology Curriculum
244
Health Psychology
263
Internationalizing Peace Psychology
284
Crafting a Vision for a Psychology Curriculum Marked by Multiplicity
307
Appendix A Fifty Ways to Internationalize the Curriculum of Western Psychology
322
Appendix B About the Editors
327
Appendix C About the Authors
329

Foundations Issues and Directions
179
Internationalizing the Field of Counseling Psychology
201

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