Indigenous psychology Flashcards
(25 cards)
What are some mental health issues specifically associated with Aboriginal people
-Colonisation tramma
-suicidal ideation
-substance abuse
-depression
The social and emotional well-being frame work differs greatly from Western mental health treatment.
What is different?
It’s emphasis on holistic and multidimensional well-being
Define culture VS Ethnicity
culture- learned rules and understandings that shape behavour, norms and co-expirence, including values, beliefs and world views
Ethnicity- identifying with a larger group or shared identification that share lingual, geographical and similar physical features
what dose IST sand for?
Indigenous
standpoint
theory
Define the concerns that
“critical race theory”
address
racism at a systematic level and it’s role in societal inequalities
What dose cross-cultral psychology remove?
and
What is its goal?
cultural bildness
and
to fully understand human behaviour from all cultural contexts
What dose the indigenous standpoint theory priorities?
Indigenous ontology, epistemology and axiology
what percentage of the world do WEIRD societies make up?
and
what percentage do they make up in reaserch participants?
%12 of the population
and
%80 of the study
name cultural differences that influence how people think, feel and behave
-individualisim/collectivism
-Time (schedules)
-personal space
-Age milestone
-mental health (experience and treatment)
-treatment of elders
What are the 4 problematic assumptions in psychology?
- universality= assuming that uniform results is evidence that applys to all humans
2.westen centrally=assuming that Western populations represent the normative standard of being
3.Defisits=assuming that population-level differences are due to Western populations lacking something
4.equivalency=assuming that using identical reasrch methods will reflect data across different cultural contexts
What word did Thomas Kuhn use to describe 1 prargim breaking down and being replaced by another?
Revolution
Define
“positivism”
A philosophical system that is based on the view that whatever exists can be verified tho experiments, observation and mathematic/logical proof
Psychological science is overwhelmingly biased towards WEIRD societies,
what dose WEIRD stand for?
Western
Educated
Industrial
Rich
Democratic
What are 3 aspects of cultural blindness?
-culture being taken for granted
-culture bring ignored
-culture bring given little credit
What traditional myth did the book “the structures of science revolution” challenge
Positivism
In 1992, at the launch of the international years of the world’s indigenous peoples, then prime minister Paul Keating delivered what became known as the Red fern speech
what did he do in this speech?
acknowledged the cultural destruction and violence inflicted on aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by European colonisation
Define
“Reflexivity”
Practise and process of self-examining emotions, actions, motivations, power dynamics and other aspects that make up one’s self hood
How was the 1900s reasrch done by non-indiginous reasrchers misused?
The results that showed aboriginal people performed better in intelligence tests after attending Western schools was used to enforce polices of forced assimilation of aboriginal children and peoples
A key principle in indigenous psychology is the right of indigenous peoples to make choices and decisions that relate to and affect their life
this is also known as?
Self-determination
what did professor Chris Sohn use critical psychology to examine?
and
what was this in realation to?
To examine the power structure that maintain inequality and injustice in realation to racism and sexsisim
Who published the book
“the structures of science Revolution”
?
Thomas Kuhn
Define
“Critical race psychology”
Approach that advocates for self-critical reflexively about the ways Psychological science reproduces domination
Define the “Decolonial turn”
A shifting and questioning in the belief that other people are “below the line” and should be subject to violence and are less then human and shouldn’t have access to human rights
What word did Thomas Kuhn use to describe a world view and way of doing science
paradigm
