African, Black, Neither or Both? Models and Strategies Developed and Implemented by The Association of Black Psychologists

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 791-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Grills ◽  
Wade W. Nobles ◽  
Christopher Hill
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Black Psychology ◽  
Black African ◽  
Cultural Worldview ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Human Functioning ◽  
African Centered ◽  
African Black

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.

Introduction: Building for Eternity

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. ii-viii
Author(s):  
Huberta Jackson-Lowman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Psychology ◽  
Developmental Approach ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Pan African ◽  
African Worldview ◽  
African Black ◽  
The Impact

This article provides an introduction to the special issue in the Journal of Black Psychology, commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). A highlight is provided of the five articles that makeup this issue. Jamison takes a developmental approach in examining keys concepts, theories, and issues that have been or need to be addressed in African/Black psychology. In contrast, Cokley and Garba examine how Black psychology has had an impact on the field of psychology. Grills, Nobles, and Hill scrutinize the models and strategies of Black psychology, African psychology, African-centered, and Pan-African psychology that have been developed through ABPsi. Myers, Anderson, Lodge, Speight, and Queener present optimal conceptual theory, an alternative cultural paradigm based in the African worldview, and discuss its application therapeutically and pragmatically as a solution to global human challenges. Finally, as emerging scholars, Woodyard and Gadson provide a critical reflection of the impact on ABPsi on their personal and professional development.

Psychocultural Study in Missiology: Middle Eastern Insecurity

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
George J. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Culture Area ◽  
Mental Problems

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.

Correctional Rehabilitation and Human Functioning: An Embodied, Embedded, and Enactive Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Harry Dent
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Treatment Utility ◽  
Enactive Approach ◽  
Human Functioning ◽  
The World ◽  
Correctional Rehabilitation ◽  
Risk Need Responsivity ◽  
Level I ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Adaptive Relationship

<p>In order for correctional rehabilitation practices to be maximally effective, they should be grounded in well-developed psychological theory about the causes, development, and nature of crime. This thesis argues that these theories of crime should be based in an underlying perspective of human functioning, or how people work at a fundamental level. I argue that this level of theory has been neglected in theories of crime, as demonstrated through an evaluation of the Risk-Need-Responsivity model of rehabilitation, which currently stands as the most popular and widely used rehabilitation framework throughout much of the world. This perspective is understood to implicitly present a view of functioning which is reward-oriented, multifactorial, norm-based, and modular, resulting in limited explanatory value and diminished treatment efficacy. I then suggest an alternative model of functioning as being embodied, embedded, and enactive (3e). 3e places an emphasis on the individual as an embodied whole, in an adaptive relationship with their physical and social environment. 3e prioritises the affective experience and agency of the individual, with a commitment to viewing the person as a functional whole drawing on comprehensive multilevel explanations. I outline how this perspective could be used to inform the explanation of crime, before applying the model to an exemplar to demonstrate the potential treatment utility of a 3e approach to correctional rehabilitation, as opposed to an RNR approach.</p>

Emerging Black Scholars: Critical Reflections on the Impact of the Association of Black Psychologists

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 772-790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oba T. Woodyard ◽  
Cecile A. Gadson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Black College ◽  
Black Psychology ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Personal Training ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
Predominately White Institution ◽  
White Institution ◽  
African Black ◽  
The Impact

This article highlights two Student Circle members’ reflections on how the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) has had an impact on their development as emerging scholars, clinicians, and advocates in African (Black) psychology. The emerging scholars share their personal training experiences at a predominately White institution and historical Black college/university. Reflections also include how ABPsi members and scholarly works have influenced their identities as future African (Black) psychologists. In addition, the history, meaning, and personal experience with jegnaship will be discussed. Finally, this reflection concludes with a call to action for students to get involved in shaping the future of ABPsi.

Two Perspectives: On Self, Relationships, and Morality

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nona Plessner Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Coding Schemes ◽  
Moral Decisions ◽  
Adolescents And Adults ◽  
Justice And Care ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

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.

scholarly journals The application of psychological theory to nutrition behaviour change

2009 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Barker ◽  
J. A. Swift
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Health Behaviour ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Health Behaviours ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Behaviour Change Techniques ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
Integrated Research

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.

DEVELOPMENT OF SANOGENIC THINKING OF STUDENT YOUTH THROUGH THE PRISM OF SOCIO-CULTURAL ADAPTATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-333
Author(s):  
Halyna Handzilevska ◽  
Anna Hilman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Interested Reader ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Internal Conflicts

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.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL AND METHODICAL PROVISION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM AS A DIRECTION OF ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES OF UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrii Seletskyi
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Educational Sciences

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.

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