Understanding culture and ethnicity: basic rudiments of an "anthropsychological" perspective for understanding human behavior.

Autor: Chestnut DE; Department of Psychology, Rawl Building, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA. CHESTNUTD@Mail.ecu.edu
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of cultural diversity [J Cult Divers] 2000 Winter; Vol. 7 (4), pp. 108-13.
Abstrakt: While there appears to be general consensus in the behavioral sciences as to the importance of culture and ethnicity in shaping behavior, the discipline of psychology, a major producer of psychotherapists, is often resistant to the study of the basic concepts; seeing it as the domain of other disciplines. Thus, psychologically trained practitioners may not have rudimentary understanding of these concept; while endorsing and even trying to incorporate ethnically and culturally sensitive practices and techniques. This paper provides a basic reformulation of culture and ethnicity and presents the novel concept of an "anthropsychological" model for understanding individual behavior while being sensitive to ethnicity and culture.
Databáze: MEDLINE