Cultural Psychology Flashcards
What is Indigenous Psychology?
Understanding across a long history of exploring wellbeing and meaning in human existence.
Developed from within and influenced by local cultural context to result in locally relevant psychological knowledge
What are the key aims of Indigenous Psychology?
Provide leadership
Ensure access to equitable and quality care
Responsive and grounded in Holistic indigenous perspectives
Increased Indigenous psychology programs
Quality control of training programs related to psychology for Indigenous Australians
Research to improve social and emotional wellbeing for Indigenous Australians.
What are the factors of Indigenous social and Emotional wellbeing.
Connection to spirit/ancestors Connection to body Connection to mind and emotions Connection to family and kinship Connection to community Connection to culture Connection to country
What are the 9 guiding principles to Indigenous Psychology?
Health as holistic The right to self-determination The need for cultural understanding The impact of history in trauma and loss Recognition of human rights The impact of racism and stigma Recognition of the centrality of kinship Recognition of cultural diversity Recognition of Aboriginal strengths
What are the historical issues in Indigenous health?
Dispossession Colonisation Massacres & atrocities Protection & segregation Assimilation policies (including the Stolen Generation & Institutionalisation) Northern Territory Intervention
What are the ongoing issues in Indigenous health?
Racism Stereotypes and myths Discrimination Poverty Disadvantage (health, housing, employment, education, justice & access) Deaths in custody Land rights Stolen wages
What are the stages of decolonisation?
Rediscovery and recovery Mourning Dreaming Commitment Action
What are some issues with cross-cultural and indigenous psychology?
Different belief systems of researchers/practitioners and the researched/clients
The incongruence between current white, western models of psychology and most of the world
Reluctance to talk about differences across systems and people (politeness, taboos, fears)
The imposition of scientific and intervention methods where they don’t fit (e.g., inappropriate scales, individualistic models)
What is culture?
Culture is the core, fundamental, dynamic, responsive, adaptive, and relatively coherent organizing system of life designed to ensure the survival and wellbeing of its members and is shared always to find meaning and purpose throughout life and to communicate caring
What are the Dimensions of Diversity?
Age Developmental disability Disability (acquired) Religion and spirituality Ethnicity and Culture Socioeconomic status Sexual Orientation Indigenous Heritage and Colonisation National Origin, Immigration, Refugee Status & Language Gender and Sex
What does W.E.I.R.D. stand for?
Western Educated Industrialised RIch Democratic
What is the problem arising from W.E.I.R.D.?
Attempts to apply concepts from narrow slices of diversity to large population groups and cultures.
What are Etic and Emic approaches to culture?
Etic: understanding driven by researcher/general theories
Do theories fit across different cultural groups?
Look for similarities and differences
Top-down
Emic: understanding driven by cultural members
attempt to understand a culture from the perspective of members of that culture – what cultural members find important and meaningful.
Ground up
What are etic approaches to culture?
- Power Distance: level of acceptance of inequality between people in a society
- Individualism (v. collectivism): degree to which a society reinforces individual achievement instead of collective achievement and interpersonal relationships
- “Masculinity” (quotes added): degree to which societies reinforce the traditional masculine work role model of achievement, control, and power
- Uncertainty Avoidance: level of avoidance of uncertainty and ambiguity within a society
- Long-term orientation: degree to which societies embraces, or does not embrace, long-term devotion to traditional values – expectations that change occurs slowly
What are the principles of Independent and Interdependent self?
Independent self Unique Autonomous Self-contained Individualistic Idiocentric
Interdependent self Connected Relational Holistic Collective Allocentric
