A cultural context psychology base and interventions to assist culturally diverse populations in the development of social emotional competences

Parra, E. G. (Elena)
MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING CTR, 7340 S. CAMINO BELLO

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Room 117, 11-07-2019, 09:00 - 10:30

Keywords

Cultural social context psychology base and interventions

Summary

This presentation provides information about a cultural social context psychology base developed for culturally diverse populations (e.g., Hispanics) aimed at facilitating the acquisition of emotional and social competencies of the culturally diverse as well as fostering a positive self esteem that incorporates their cultural learnings, values and worldview to allow transformation, evolution and advancement. This base and the interventions presented were developed in response to the need to redifine psychology and school psychology programs from models  (e.g., Western Eurocentric) that are largely irrelevant to the culturally diverse.  This presentation aims at: 1) promoting and underrstanding the process of adaptation in a culturally different social environment, 2) understanding the difference of tricultural self perceptions in the development of self esteem, 3) understanding the impact of the battles of the worldviews and the tricultural self, 4) differentiating between healthy and unhealthy coping and defense mechanisms, 5) outlining major implications for interventions such as defining and determining how oppression manifests itself in psychological ways and how the process of adaptation can be accomplished without lossing the cultural self and without becoming toxic and self destructive, 5) presenting 5 major interventions for working with the culturally diverse.

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