A Systems Approach to International Disaster Psychology

Thoburn, John W.; Carlile, Jessica A.; Clark, Noël E.

doi:10.1080/08975353.2014.910030

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“…Moghaddam (2009) points to a "fractured globalization," in which mass culture and immigration threaten personal identity and group security, reinforcing a sense of ingroup and outgroup attitudes and feelings. The coming together of cultures is often difficult, devolving into the violence of intergroup conflict exemplified by the advent of modern-day international disaster psychology that was born out of the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides of the 1990s (Mays, Bullock, Rosenzweig, & Wessells, 1998;Thoburn, Carlile, & Clark, 2014).…”

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“…What emerges is an ecological approach that is greater than the sum of its parts-one that is able to bridge the divide between Western models of psychology and folk or indigenous models. When clinicians recognize the intertwined social ecologies of individual, family, and community subsystems, and when they embrace both a pathology model and models that emphasize family and community resources, they become less dependent on traditional Western norms (Thoburn, Carlile, & Clark, 2014;Wessells, 2009).…”

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“…The idea of the "global village" is becoming a more distinct reality in our time (McLuhan, 1964(McLuhan, , 2003, and with it has come increased mobility on the part of psychologists, including the increased use of professional psychological treatments worldwide. The field of international family psychology finds itself uniquely suited to the cultural ethos of many countries that tend to have a less individualistic and more family and community focus (Thoburn, Carlile, & Clark, 2014).International psychology refers to researchers and practitioners who cross national boundaries to do the work of psychology. International psychology' s mandate is to promote collaboration among psychologists on a global level in the areas of research, theory building, teaching, practice, and public service (Stevens & Wedding, 2004).…”

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International family psychology.

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APA Handbook of Contemporary Family Psychology: Applications and Broad Impact of Family Psychology (Vol. 2).

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This chapter will introduce the field of international family psychology and the use of systems psychology around transnational issues. The idea of the "global village" is becoming a more distinct reality in our time (McLuhan, 1964(McLuhan, , 2003, and with it has come increased mobility on the part of psychologists, including the increased use of professional psychological treatments worldwide. The field of international family psychology finds itself uniquely suited to the cultural ethos of many countries that tend to have a less individualistic and more family and community focus (Thoburn, Carlile, & Clark, 2014).International psychology refers to researchers and practitioners who cross national boundaries to do the work of psychology. International psychology' s mandate is to promote collaboration among psychologists on a global level in the areas of research, theory building, teaching, practice, and public service (Stevens & Wedding, 2004). The goals of international psychology are to promote goodwill, to influence capacity building in developing regions of the world, to create a transnational research base of knowledge, to collaborate on curriculum, and to build a common core of competencies in the field (Pawlik & d'Ydewalle, 1996;Sabourin, 2001).International family psychology addresses the development and implementation of systems-based theory, research, and practice with couples and families transnationally, as well as global issues affecting every region of the world, such as human trafficking, disaster, the epidemic of mood disorders in the West, global warming, terrorism, the effects of globalization on the integrity of nation states and on relations between nations (Lambo, 2000;Vlek, 2000). All of these issues are of vital importance, not only to any one population of people, but to the world population at large. Family systems psychology observes the holistic and interactional nature of transnational issues such that "problems are rooted in a complex matrix of culture, economics, history, politics, psychology, and religion, and a comprehensive approach requires a multidisciplinary and transnational approach" (Jing, 2000, p. 570;Stanton & Welsh, 2012;Thoburn & Sexton, 2016). ORIENTATIONDriven by the scientific method, the dominant perspective in the West has been the clinical pathology model, reflecting a focus on individualism and personality and tending to lead to what Pupavec (2006) has called, "the psychologization of human experience" (p.17). However, Western psychology can be ethnocentric and its focus on causality and reductionism may result in incomplete descriptions of psychological phenomena in the non-Western world. Furthermore, a Western sensibility, with its focus on individuals and emotion states, is shared by relatively few people groups worldwide. Contrasting examples include Confucianism, which focuses on

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