Comment: Should Psychological Theory and Practice Be Divided?

1950 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 495-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney H. Newman
1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
George J. Jennings

Many mission leaders have been confronted with counseling problems, although until recently there has been reluctance to incorporate psychopathologies and therapies into training and experience on a professional level. However, Hesselgrave, to cite one example, joins other early pioneers among missiologists in treating such a field in both book and journals as he has probed into psychocultural facets that involve personnel with mental problems. This paper is an effort to diagnose mental illness in a major culture area that is dominated by Islam in values and worldview. The intent is to apply an “emic” (Pike) approach to psychocultural pathologies in order to assist Christians as they employ psychological theory and practice cross-culturally.


1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nona Plessner Lyons

Nona Plessner Lyons offers interview data from female and male children, adolescents,and adults in support of the assertions of Carol Gilligan (HER, 1977) that there are two distinct modes of describing the self in relation to others—separate/objective and connected—as well as two kinds of considerations used by individuals in making moral decisions—justice and care. She then describes a methodology, developed from the data, for systematically and reliably identifying these modes of self-definition and moral judgment through the use of two coding schemes. Finally, an empirical study testing Gilligan's hypotheses of the relationship of gender to self-definition and moral judgment is presented with implications of this work for psychological theory and practice.


2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Barker ◽  
J. A. Swift

Changing individuals' health behaviour seems to be the key to solving many of the world's health problems. Although there is a multitude of potential influences, many interventions to improve health seek to change intrinsic psychological determinants of health behaviour. To date, most attention has been paid to cognitions, such as attitudes and beliefs, and a number of social cognition models (SCM) are in current use. SCM all describe cognitions as determinants of behaviour, thereby implying that changes in cognitions will lead to changes in behaviour. Although SCM are widely used to predict a range of health behaviours, they are associated with a number of important limitations, including poor levels of predictive power, particularly in relation to eating behaviour, and limited guidance about the operationalisation of theoretical constructs. These limitations may explain why very few interventions to change behaviour are explicitly theory-based, despite the widely-held view that having a clear theoretical underpinning will improve effectiveness. Ultimately, advances in understanding and changing health behaviour will come about only if psychological theory and practice are integrated. The recently-published taxonomy of behaviour-change techniques used in interventions is a good example of integrated research, but more work of this type is essential and will require respectful collaboration between researchers and practitioners working from a range of different disciplines such as health psychology, public health nutrition and health promotion.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-333
Author(s):  
Halyna Handzilevska ◽  
Anna Hilman

The research deals with the problem of the formation of life scenarios of students-migrants and their sanogenic thinking through the prism of socio-cultural adaptation. The authors point out that the sanogenic thinking reduces internal conflicts, allows you to control emotions, needs and desires, and thus prevents diseases. The article is presented the model of the formation of students’ sanogenic thinking that can be a key way to restore individual wellbeing. The article proves that scenario decisions of students-migrants are unconscious, irrational mind sets for adapting to life. In this regard, the modality of students-migrants contact with socio-cultural surroundings which impacts the establishment of acculturation strategies has been predicted and featured. The authors established a correlation between certain types of socio-cultural adaptation and the prohibition of the scenario. The authors prove that the process of the development of the students’ sanogenic thinking through the prism of socio-cultural adaptation can enrich psychological theory and practice with new experience and become a means of support for the interested reader.


Author(s):  
Andrii Seletskyi

The main objective, strategic priorities and ways of fulfilling the tasks and functions of the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine on the theoretical and methodological and scientific and methodical support of modernization and development of the education system of Ukraine in the conditions of European integration and world globalization are highlighted. The quantitative and qualitative indicators of the final scientific production, formed by the results of the research activity of the institution, are analyzed. The basic directions of activity of the NAES of Ukraine on theoretical and methodological support of the development of the educational system and its comprehensive scientific support are revealed; coordination, organization and implementation of the basic and applied scientific research, as well as innovative scientific and technical (experimental) developments in the field of education, pedagogy and psychology, in particular, the study of global trends in the development of education, pedagogical and psychological theory and practice, conducting content analysis, state standards of education in foreign countries, assessing the quality of education in general and other educational institutions of Ukraine and abroad; providing scientific, methodological and advisory support on educational matters to public authorities; conducting an independent scientific examination of sectoral projects of projected and program documents, educational and methodical literature; participation in the development of teaching methods, educational standards, standard educational programs, textbooks; establishing cooperation with scientific and educational institutions of foreign countries, international organizations and funds on education; preparation and certification of scientific, scientific and pedagogical personnel of higher qualification; educational and publishing activities, etc.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-263
Author(s):  
O.B. Ilyina

Professional self-determination in adolescence for many years has been one of the hot topics of psychological theory and practice. Research in the field of personal and professional self-determination, career choice, continues to be a priority. Professional self-determination is part of the general process of socialization of adolescents, a necessary condition for their success and competitiveness in today's socio-economic realities. And it raises the question of what should be psychological and educational support in these conditions? Problems of career choice are considered on three sides: in the context of the social situation in which there are modern teenagers; from the perspective of adolescents themselves, choosing the profession; taking into account the peculiarities of psycho-pedagogical support of professional self-determination of teenagers nowadays. Analysis of problems leads us to the possible ways of solving them, and the need to build a new model of career guidance.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Kondrat'ev

The monograph presents the psychological theory and organization of personalized learning in general education schools. The concept of integrative subjectivity of a person as a form of reflexive and areflexive self-existence is considered as the psychological basis of personalized learning. The author characterizes the personality and the social individual in the light of the humanitarian Christian paradigm: reveals the phenomenology of integrative subjectivity, its structural organization, levels and forms of development of the individual and the social individual. From the standpoint of the Christian psychology of education, the general psychological and socio-psychological aspects of personalized learning are revealed, the psychological typification of students and teachers is justified, the extraordinary pedagogical interaction as a psychological mechanism of personalized learning is presented, the experimental construction of psychological types of primary school students based on the perception of educational material, as well as the typological features of teachers. Technologies of personalized learning are presented. The monograph reflects the results of many years of theoretical and experimental research of the author. It is of interest to seminarians, students, postgraduates of Orthodox educational institutions, students of Higher theological courses, faculties of advanced training and retraining, as well as philosophers, psychologists, teachers, social workers, and specialists in the field of education.


2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 791-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Grills ◽  
Wade W. Nobles ◽  
Christopher Hill

The Association of Black Psychologists’ (ABPsi) has embodied its mission within the context of the evolving discipline of Black Psychology. In its 50-year evolution, the association has evolved and expanded beyond its initial concerns to include an articulation of a science of Black human functioning, ergo an African-centered or African psychology. The nascent association called for a logic of human behavior, wellness, and illness from an African episteme and cultural worldview. Equivalent to a scientific revolution, the Black psychology discussion has evolved to a Pan-African discussion with a new cadre of debates emerging in the literature including among continental African scholars focusing on the existence, definition, and praxis of an African psychology. Over the course of this intellectual quest, ABPsi, aligned with its mission as a professional association, advanced several models of psychological theory and practice as well as strategies grounded in Black, African-centered, and/or Black psychology. A sample of these models and strategies are discussed through the lens of the association’s evolving articulation of a science of Black human functioning.


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