Cultural and Gender Awareness in International Psychology

Rice, Joy K.

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“…Working successfully and effectively in a transnational context requires substantial expansion of traditional, Western psychological theories and research based on "WEIRD" people-people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic contexts or cultures. A critical analysis of Western perspectives includes the need to evaluate these perspectives on psychotherapeutic practice, feminism, and gender issues (APA, 2004;Rice & Ballou, 2002). There may be important differences in therapist-client relationships, for example, boundaries, expectations, time constraints, payment options, and limitations for counseling; and national differences in ethical codes related to practice (Duan et al, 2011).…”

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Inclusive and affirmative psychological practice: Unifying themes.

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2015

Psychological Practice With Women: Guidelines, Diversity, Empowerment.

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The "Guidelines for Psychological Practice With Girls and Women" (American Psychological Association [APA] 2007; hereinafter the Guidelines) reflect 40 years of multicultural and feminist perspectives in psychology and show users, readers, and practitioners how far we have come. They indeed are a very practical and useful foundation for working with diverse groups of women. However, we are just beginning to expand this foundation to ensure that our knowledge base is inclusive of all women. A greater goal is to effect a transformation of psychological practice that centralizes the understanding of women's and girls' multiple diversities. This book is one step forward toward that goal. Repeatedly our authors have spoken of the impossibility of "doing justice" to within-group diversity in one chapter. So filling this gap with additional material, research, and case studies will be an important step for the future. Although this book is a beginning, there are a variety of diversitiesCopyright American Psychological Association. Not for further distribution. 258rice, enns, and nutt that we were unable to encompass and centralize. Some include women and aging; the unique developmental experiences of girls; religious diversity; and most important, social class and socioeconomic status (SES).The theme of intersectionality is developed in each and every chapter and points to the importance of attending to the unique life experiences and perspectives of each woman and girl. The rich and varied case studies bring intersectionality to the forefront. We recommend that intersecting perspectives be given more attention and consideration and additional emphasis in all of the various APA practice guidelines.Social justice has been increasingly emphasized during recent years, and our chapters point out how social justice is relevant to individual psychotherapy as well as to advocacy, teaching, research, supervision, and other applications. The chapters also reveal, however, that bias and oppression continue to have a substantial impact on the lives of girls and women. Interpersonal violence and power differences are frequently discussed in the case studies of diverse women in this book. Unfortunately, the experience of interpersonal violence seems to be shared widely across diverse groups of women. The following section describes 20 themes that embody what we believe are important take-aways for our readers. UNIFYING THEMESThere is certainly not a one-size-fits-all approach to working effectively with diverse women; however, the rich chapters and case studies in this volume do provide us with some themes and "golden nuggets" for psychotherapeutic practice with women who have multiple and diverse social identities. It is difficult to do justice to all the points made in the book, but here we try to give the reader and the practitioner what we consider the 20 most important highlights and themes of the book.

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Inclusive and affirmative psychological practice: Unifying themes.

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Enns²,

Nutt³

2015

Psychological Practice With Women: Guidelines, Diversity, Empowerment.

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“…As noted earlier in this chapter, the Guidelines were originally intended to address psychological practice with diverse women, including immigrant women, who reside within North America. In an effort to extend the Guidelines, a 2008 working group that was co-led by Enns and Machizawa worked toward integrating the Guidelines with the International Committee for Women position paper (Rice & Ballou, 2002) and the related APA (2004b) resolution on gender and cultural awareness. The working group identified these documents as compatible and complementary, and also concluded that the general themes articulated in the Guidelines statements are useful for supporting ethical and competent transnational psychological practice.…”

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Transforming psychological practice with women: An introduction.

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2015

Psychological Practice With Women: Guidelines, Diversity, Empowerment.

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There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of books on diversity urging psychologists and others to become more knowledgeable and sensitive to diverse populations of people. So why read yet another book on diversity? How is this book different, and how will it help psychologists in practice, be it clinical, research, or teaching? Our aim here is ambitious. We believe psychology and its practitioners need to understand, appreciate, and put into practice the complexities of working with groups of women and girls who embody and live with multiple layers of diverse identities. And this situation is far more common than one would first anticipate in working with women. As but one example, a clinician can explore a layer of identity with a Latina woman and find a Puerto Rican, bisexual mother who has decided her Latina identity takes precedence over her gender and openly embraces that identity, but hides her sexual orientation. In this book, our authors tackle the complexities of working with women and girls who live at the "borders," negotiatingCopyright American Psychological Association. Not for further distribution. rice, enns, and nuttmultiple identities related to race, ethnicity, class, geography, sexual orientation, and disability. It is not an easy task to help these clients not only to understand their complex path, but also to choose the right interventions, assessments, and resources. This book is chock full of helpful perspectives, techniques, and case studies for psychologists and practitioners who want to be more effective and knowledgeable about working with diverse groups of women. Further, we believe if these issues and knowledge base are centralized in psychological practice, there will be a real transformation on how we understand, conceptualize, and treat diverse groups of women and girls.Transformation has been a central goal within the psychology of women for many years (Crawford & Marecek, 1989). As early as 1968, Weisstein (1993) declared that "psychology has nothing to say" (p. 197) about women's experiences. She criticized psychologists for ignoring the social context of women's lives and relying on speculative theories that were not supported by evidence. Twenty years after Weisstein's famous speech, Crawford and Marecek (1989) defined the goal of transformation as requiring self-reflective attitudes and changing the norms, practices, and content of psychology.This book represents an effort to further this transformation in a variety of ways. Diversity and empowerment, two words that are highlighted in the subtitle of this book, are sometimes identified as buzzwords that have been overused or have limited meaning. We use these words deliberately and purposefully. By using the word diversity, we aim to underline the importance of all women's experiences. Diversity involves centralizing the experiences, strengths, and struggles of women of color and from other marginalized groups, drawing our attention to the social-ecological context and complexities of their lives. This book uses an intersectional...

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“…In 2001 I joined a self-assembled task force of feminist psychologists from committees of two divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA) -Division 35 (Psychology of Women) Global Issues Committee and Division 52 (International Psychology) Committee on Women-to begin a dialogue in response to this building internationalization movement in APA. Led by Joy Rice and Mary Ballou, our activist group developed a position paper critiquing the uncritical, ''Cultural and Gender Awareness in International Psychology'' (Rice and Ballou, 2002). Rice and Ballou, (2002) encouraged psychologists, especially U.S. psychologists, to be aware of our potential for U.S. centered, disciplinary empire-building and to '' .…”

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“…Led by Joy Rice and Mary Ballou, our activist group developed a position paper critiquing the uncritical, ''Cultural and Gender Awareness in International Psychology'' (Rice and Ballou, 2002). Rice and Ballou, (2002) encouraged psychologists, especially U.S. psychologists, to be aware of our potential for U.S. centered, disciplinary empire-building and to '' . .…”

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