article 1 - tsunami , critical cultural awareness

Question 1

consequences of tsunami - interventions

Answer 1

• efforts were wasted
• therapeutic practices violated local structures
• the second tsunami

Question 2

hermeneutics

Answer 2

-offers a way to rethink assumptions of western psychology

• every psychology is inevitably indigenous
• > embedded in and a product of the surrounding culture and local societal conditions

Question 3

hermeneutic model of culture

Answer 3

-folk psychology:
set of meanings concerning psychological life that is shared by a social group
-moral views

Question 4

the self: hermeneutic view vs. individualism

Answer 4

hermeneutic:

• self and culture are inextricably linked
• self deeply formed by social practices and cultural meanings and moral visions
• > implicit in them before they develop cognitive capacities to partially define themselves

individualism:
-cartesian view
-self as separate from others, society, culture and nature
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Question 5

conclusion article

Answer 5

• globalization should imply learning about folk psychologies, worldviews and moral visions
• need for critical cultural awareness
• openness to learning about and from other psychologies
• need to learn from them not only about them
• stop claiming terms to be universal
• interdisciplinary training necessary