Social Change And Psychosocial Adaptation In The Pacific Islands

Author : Anthony J. Marsella,Ayda Aukahi Austin,Bruce Grant
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387232898

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Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands by Anthony J. Marsella,Ayda Aukahi Austin,Bruce Grant Pdf

The history of the Pacific Islands is noted for great upheavals, from colonization to tribal warfare, natural disasters to nuclear testing. More recently, political change, increasing technology and urbanization, and conflict between traditional and Western cultures have led to considerable social problems in the region. Substance and alcohol abuse, violence, cultural displacement, and suicide bring uncertainty to day-to-day life and stretch already overextended social resources. Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands sensitively balances situations applicable across this vast geographical area with data and events relevant to individual nations in Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Chapters are written by native clinicians, cultural anthropologists, cross-cultural psychologists, and other professionals serving the region, specifically focusing on: - Hawaii- Aboriginal Australia - The Solomon Islands - Fiji - Guam - The Marshall Islands - The Federated States of Micronesia Each provides historical background, details the country's ethnic makeup, summarizes major cultural identity/survival issues, and examines its existing health care and mental health care systems. The tasks ahead are large. Practitioners, researchers, and other professionals working with the peoples of the Pacific need culturally attuned resources to better collaborate on interventions, prevention programs, and policy. Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands rises to this complex challenge.

Author : Anthony J. Marsella,Ayda Aukahi Austin,Bruce Grant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0387502874

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Social Change and Psychosocial Adaptation in the Pacific Islands by Anthony J. Marsella,Ayda Aukahi Austin,Bruce Grant Pdf

Author : Eric John Ramos David
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780826199256

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Internalized Oppression by Eric John Ramos David Pdf

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Author : Michael Schnegg,Edward D. Lowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108487283

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Comparing Cultures by Michael Schnegg,Edward D. Lowe Pdf

Shows how comparative ethnographic methods can be successfully used to study important human concerns in anthropology.

Author : John Connell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135912826

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The Global Health Care Chain by John Connell Pdf

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the growing phenomenon of the international migration of skilled health workers and reveals its exceptional significance for both sending and receiving countries.

Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137088123

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A History of the Pacific Islands by Steven Roger Fischer Pdf

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet – Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia – the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states. Thoroughly revised and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition includes: • an overview of the events and developments in the Pacific Islands over the last decade • coverage of the latest archaeological discoveries • several new maps • an updated and expanded bibliography Steven Roger Fischer's unique text provides a highly accessible and invaluable introduction to the history of an area which is currently emerging as pivotal in international affairs. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work in archaeology and anthropology as well as in history enriches the text, making this a book with wide appeal for students and general readers.

Author : Boulet, Jacques,Hawkins, Linette
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799867869

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Practical and Political Approaches to Recontextualizing Social Work by Boulet, Jacques,Hawkins, Linette Pdf

Currently there is an enduring and changing meaning of social work in a world where new crises are being confronted and new opportunities are arriving in the evolving context of social work and the related disciplines. There is a question on how to manage the transformation of social work both productively and creatively during this global shift. Practitioners and educators can experience a tragic disorientation when confronted by the diversity and depth of these crises endured and can face doubts about their role in social work throughout all these changes and difficult situations. Alternatives to this disorientation, a comfort with uncertainty, and a capability to take risks need to urgently be developed on a professional and personal level for success in the evolving field. Through historical lens and a review of policies and value-based approaches, the recontextualization of social work can be explored. Practical and Political Approaches to Recontextualizing Social Work explores practical and political ways in which social work practice has been reconstructed. Chapters identify this recontextualization of social work and how it is changing, adapting, and transforming the profession along with providing the potential implications for the profession. This book grants insight on the reconstruction of social work on the personal and interpersonal level (“case” work) and also on those intending to impact social work on the local/global environment level in all dimensions: politically, economically, socially, and ecologically. In addition, the book includes a shift from the present short-term and micro/personal view to a future and much broader and encompassing perspective and practice vision. This book is essential for social workers, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, researchers, academicians, and students who want to learn more about the recontextualizing of modern social work in a shifting global environment.

Author : Robillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317726821

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Social Change In The Pacific Islands by Robillard Pdf

First published in 1992. The Pacific Ocean is the largest geographical feature on the face of the earth, covering about one third of its entire surface. Occupying part of that large expanse are the far-flung islands of the Pacific. As the papers of this volume clearly indicate, the post-world war II era and decolonization have brought unprecedented change, and the Pacific is now experiencing problems that were formerly associated with other Third World nations. Most Pacific countries have rapidly expanding populations, and over half of all Pacific Islanders are now in their teenage years or younger. Education and modern communications have served to increase aspirations and attracted by hopes of employment and the distractions of urban life, islanders are gravitating to urban centers.

Author : Michael B. Salzman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319694207

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A Psychology of Culture by Michael B. Salzman Pdf

This thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human life in response to core psychological, physiological, and existential needs. It synthesizes diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality, self-esteem, identity, and meaning as well as a driver of domination and upheaval. Extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities also spotlight the resilience of culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma, and the possibility of reconciliation between conflicting cultures. The stimulating insights included here have far-reaching implications for psychology, education, intergroup relations, politics, and social policy. Included in the coverage: · Culture as shared meanings and interpretations. · Culture as an ontological prescription of how to “be” and “how to live.” · Cultural worldviews as immortality ideologies. · Culture and the need for a “world of meaning in which to act.” · Cultural trauma and indigenous people. · Constructing situations that optimize the potential for positive intercultural interaction. · Anxiety and the Human Condition. · Anxiety and Self Esteem. · Culture and Human Needs. A Psychology of Culture takes an uncommon tour of the human condition of interest to clinicians, educators, and practitioners, students of culture and its role and effects in human life, and students in nursing, medicine, anthropology, social work, family studies, sociology, counseling, and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate text.

Author : Philip Culbertson,Margaret Nelson Agee,Cabrini Ofa Makasiale
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780824863913

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Penina Uliuli by Philip Culbertson,Margaret Nelson Agee,Cabrini Ofa Makasiale Pdf

This diverse collection of essays examines important issues related to mental health among Pacific Islanders through the topics of identity, spirituality, the unconscious, mental trauma, and healing. Contributors: Emeline Afeaki-Mafile‘o, Margaret Nelson Agee, Siautu Alefaio, A. Aukahi Austin, Tina Berking, Philip Culbertson, Caroline Salumalo Fatialofa, Yvette Guttenbeil-Po‘uhila, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, David Lui, Karen Lupe, Maika Lutui, Cabrini ‘Ofa Makasiale, Tavita T. Maliko, Peta Pila Palalagi, Suiamai Simi, Seilosa Skipps-Patterson, Karanina Siaosi Sumeo, To‘oa Jemaima Tiatia, Sione Tu‘itahi, Fia T. Turner-Tupou.

Author : Marty Branagan,Bert Jenkins,Helen Ware
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443859318

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Cultivating Peace by Marty Branagan,Bert Jenkins,Helen Ware Pdf

Cultivating Peace: Contexts, Practices and Multidimensional Models moves away from negative connotations associated with the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding. It embraces a multiplicity of trans-disciplinary approaches to peacebuilding, mostly coinciding with the eco-horticultural metaphor of peace cultivation. Ultimately, the idea of cultivating peace embodies love and compassion, while utilising local knowledge, expertise and wisdom to do no harm. Using various case studies from across the world, the narratives and insights in this book present diverse facets of peacebuilding, yet all contribute constructive lessons. The chapters cover three general themes. Some examine the structural and discursive causes of violence and how to improve situations where violence is evident, or to prevent it from breaking out. Others deal with the aftermath of violence and how to reconcile and restore shattered lives and societies. The third group deals with positive social change by nonviolent means, which is much more constructive than the “negative peace” of ceasefires and peace enforcement used to manage direct violence. Promoting the ideal of peace cultivation, this volume emphasises ways to improve things, to suggest alternatives, and to employ initiatives to plant and grow positive changes both during the fighting and in the aftermath of violent conflicts.

Author : Frederick Leong,Wade E. Pickren,Mark M. Leach,Anthony J. Marsella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461400738

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Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States by Frederick Leong,Wade E. Pickren,Mark M. Leach,Anthony J. Marsella Pdf

The psychology community recognizes that cultivating an international worldview is crucial not only to professionals and researchers, but more importantly, for professors and students of psychology as well. It is critically necessary for psychologists to learn from their colleagues who are working in different cultural contexts in order to develop the type of knowledge and psychological understanding of human behavior that will be maximally useful to practitioners and researchers alike. This volume, Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum in the United States, provides information and resources to help psychology faculty educate and train future generations of psychologists within a much more international mindset and global perspective. Recognizing that cultural context are central to a true and accurate psychology, the authors describes how cultural, economic, political, and social factors in different countries frame individual experience and affect the science and practice of psychology. Each of the chapters will provide a content-specific overview of how the curriculum in psychology with regards to social, development, clinical, counseling psychology, etc will need to be modified in order to present a much more global view of psychology.

Author : Vincent F. Biondo,Richard D. Hecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313342790

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Religion and Everyday Life and Culture by Vincent F. Biondo,Richard D. Hecht Pdf

This intriguing three-volume set explores the ways in which religion is bound to the practice of daily life and how daily life is bound to religion. In Religion and Everyday Life and Culture, 36 international scholars describe the impact of religious practices around the world, using rich examples drawn from personal observation. Instead of repeating generalizations about what religion should mean, these volumes examine how religions actually influence our public and private lives "on the ground," on a day-to-day basis. Volume one introduces regional histories of the world's religions and discusses major ritual practices, such as the Catholic Mass and the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. Volume two examines themes that will help readers understand how religions interact with the practices of public life, describing the ways religions influence government, education, criminal justice, economy, technology, and the environment. Volume three takes up themes that are central to how religions are realized in the practices of individuals. In these essays, readers meet a shaman healer in South Africa, laugh with Buddhist monks, sing with Bob Dylan, cheer for Australian rugby, and explore Chicana and Iranian art.

Author : Jeff Greenberg,Sander L. Koole,Tom Pyszczynski
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462514793

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Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology by Jeff Greenberg,Sander L. Koole,Tom Pyszczynski Pdf

Social and personality psychologists traditionally have focused their attention on the most basic building blocks of human thought and behavior, while existential psychologists pursued broader, more abstract questions regarding the nature of existence and the meaning of life. This volume bridges this longstanding divide by demonstrating how rigorous experimental methods can be applied to understanding key existential concerns, including death, uncertainty, identity, meaning, morality, isolation, determinism, and freedom. Bringing together leading scholars and investigators, the Handbook presents the influential theories and research findings that collectively are helping to define the emerging field of experimental existential psychology.

Author : Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041356

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Linguistic Ecology and Language Contact by Ralph Ludwig,Steve Pagel,Peter Mühlhäusler Pdf

This book revisits and updates the concept of linguistic ecology, outlining applications to a variety of contact situations worldwide.