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The Handbook of International Psychology

  • Price: $120.00 $108.00
  • Hardback: 560 pages
  • Published: July 2004
  • ISBN: 978-0-415-94612-4
  • Publisher: Routledge

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World events have raised pressing questions of psychology as it is practiced all over the globe. The Handbook of International Psychology chronicles the discipline of psychology as it evolves in different regions, in the hope of reducing the isolated, parochial, and ethnocentric nature of the American profession. It surveys the history, methodology, education and training, and the future of psychology in nine distinct regions across six continents. They represent long histories in the field, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, emerging practices, such as Uganda, Korea and Spain, the lesser-known philosophies of China and histories marked by massive social change, as in Poland and Iran. The editors have carefully selected contributors, as well as an editorial board created especially for this project. Each chapter follows a uniform outline, unifying the volume as a whole, but allowing for the cultural diversity and status of psychology in each country.

Table of Contents

Foreword Florence L. Denmark. Preface. Contents. International Psychology: An Overview Michael J. Stevens and Danny Wedding

AFRICA- 1. Psychology in Kenya June W. Koinange. 2. Psychology in Nigeria James T. Gire. 3. Psychology in South Africa Graham B. Stead.

NORTH AMERICA- 4. Psychology in Canada Pierre Ritchie and Michel Sabourin. 5. Psychology in Mexico Juan José Sanchez-Sosa. 6. Psychology in the United States Raymond D. Fowler and Russ Newman. SOUTH AMERICA- 7. Psychology in Argentina Hugo Klappenbach. 8. Psychology in Brazil: The Road Behind and the Road Ahead Claudio S. Hutz, Sherri McCarthy, and William Gomes. 9. Psychology in Colombia Rubén Ardila.

EAST ASIA- 10. Advances in Psychology in China Yufang Yang. 11. Psychology in Japan Junko Tanaka-Matsumi and Kanako Otsui. 12. Psychology in Singapore Elizabeth Nair. SOUTH ASIA- 13. Psychology in India Blanche Barnes 14. Psychology in Pakistan Nosheen Khan Rahman. 15. Psychology in Thailand Sombat Tapanya. EAST EUROPE 16. Psychology in Poland: A Country Under Transformation Irena Heszen-Niejodek. 17. Psychology in Russia Tatiana Balachova, Galina Isurina, Sheldon Levy, Larisa Svetkova, and Ludwig Wasserman. 18. Psychology in Turkey Hale Bolak Boratav.

WEST EUROPE- 19. Psychology in Germany Ingrid Plath and Lutz H. Eckensbeger. 20. Psychology in Spain José M. Prieto and Yolanda García-Rodriguez. 21. Psychology in the United Kingdom Ingrid C. Lunt. THE MIDDLE EAST- 22. Psychology in Egypt Ramadan A. Ahmed. 23. Psychology in Iran Behrooz Birashk. 24. Psychology in Israel Rebecca Jacoby. THE PACIFIC RIM- 25. Psychology in Australia Alison F. Garton. Psychology in Indonesia Sarlito W. Sarwono. Psychology in the Philippines Cristina Jayme Montiel and Lota A. Teh. INTERNATIOINAL PSYCHOLOGY: A SYNTHESIS Michael J. Stevens and Danny Wedding. Appendix 1: Sociodemography of Countries included in the handbook of international psychology Stephanie R. Steinman.

Author Biography

Michael Stevens is Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Illinois State University.

Danny Wedding is Director and Professor of Psychiatry, Missouri Institute of Mental Health, School of Medicine, University of Missouri - Columbia.