Culture and Ethnic Diversity: How European Psychologists Can Meet the Challenges

Alexander Thomas editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hogrefe Publishing

Published:26th Jun '17

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Culture and diversity are both challenge and opportunity. This volumelooks at what psychologists are and can be doing to help society meetthe challenges and grasp the opportunities in education, at work, andin clinical practice. The increasingly international and globalized natureof modern societies means that psychologists in particular facenew challenges and have new opportunities in all areas of practiceand research.The contributions from leading European experts cover relevant interculturalissues and topics in areas as diverse as personality, educationand training, work and organizational psychology, clinical and counsellingpsychlogy, migration, and international youth exchanges.As well as looking at the new challenges and opportunities that psychologistsface in dealing with people from increasingly varied culturalbackgrounds, perhaps more importantly they also explain and discusshow psychologists can deepen and acquire the intercultural competenciesthat are now needed in our professional lives.

"This book delivers vital insights into how European psychologists can meet the challenges posed by cultural and ethnic diversity. It provides researchbased evidence of the importance of developing intercultural competencies as part of the psychology curriculum at bachelor and master levels, discussing important theoretical, conceptual, and ethical aspects. It's a book that we were all waiting for, and will be useful not only to psychologist practitioners and students, but also to stakeholders and policy makers in education." ; Bruna Zani, Professor of Social and Community Psychology, Department of Psychology, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; EFPA Executive Council Member..........; "This book offers us the tools to understand and work in a globalised world, where the challenges of cultural and ethnic diversity are present daily and defy the traditional ways of dealing with problems. European professionals must be prepared for this new world, and develop the competencies to help people from very different backgrounds and origins as they become part of our societies as fellow citizens." ; Telmo Mourinho Baptista, President of the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA), Professor of Psychotherapy andHealth Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal

ISBN: 9780889374904

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222 pages