WEEK 11 - Psychology and culture

Question 1

Indigenous psychology

Answer 1

indigenous people need their own psychological framework without imported western ideologies imposed on their reality. Influenced and developed by local cultural context to result in locally relevant psychological knowledge

Question 2

9 guiding principles

Answer 2

• health as holistic
• right to self-determination
• need for cultural understanding
• impact of history in trauma and loss
• recognition of human rights
• impact of racism and stigma
• recognition of centrality of kinship
• recognition of cultural diversity
• recognition of aboriginal strengths

Question 3

Approaches to culture

Answer 3

Cultural: examine features of cultures and processes of cultural maintenance and change
Cross-cultural: identify areas of similarities and difference between cultures

Question 4

Emic vs Etic approaches

Answer 4

Emic: understanding driven by cultural members
Etic: understanding driven by researcher/general theories

Question 5

Etic

Answer 5

• Power distance
• individualism
• masculinity
• uncertainty avoidance
• long-term orientation
• indulgence

Question 6

Emic

Answer 6

• explanatory models
• understanding meaning, values, norms, customs or particular groups

Question 7

Acculturation

Answer 7

affiliation with culture of origin and new culture where they are living.

Question 8

Cross-cultural issues

Answer 8

• ethnocentrism
• stereotyping
• xenophobia
• prejudice (racism)
• discrimination

Question 9

Cross-cultural issues cont.

Answer 9

prejudice and discrimination can be:
- personally-mediated
- institutionalised
- internalised

Question 10

Reducing prejudice

Answer 10

• professional bodies promoting mental health of all people
• individual commitments
• intergroup contact and promoting positive relations
• macro/systems-level efforts
• institutional practices