Multicultural Psychology

Length: 3 Pages APA + Reference Page

Two sections

Section 1

          -Apply known principles towards the experience of one psychotherapist

Section 2

          -Analyze two articles using the concepts given

Details

• For this task, you will write a paper consisting of two sections. You may want to use headers to label each section.

In Section 1 of your paper, apply principles you learned to the multicultural psychotherapy experience of one psychotherapist. (Wyatt-Hardy Interview)

Then, view the interviews in this week’s Resources concerning white and black magic in Paris and psychotherapy in China.  (Black and White Witchcraft) (Psychotherapy in China)

Then, analyze them, using as many of the following concepts as applicable:

·         What influence does culture have on the definition of illness and disease in this example?

·         What specific “etic” factors applied to the understanding of psychological illness and cure? What “emic” factor applied? (Hint: If necessary, refresh your understanding of the concepts etic and emic).

·         How does the role of the psychotherapist differ in each?

·         How did the therapist deal with being part of an “out group” in relation to the people he was treating, and to their cultural definitions of health and healing?

·         In section two of your paper, give your personal reflections on the approach each therapist took to multicultural psychology as you answer the following:

·         Given the diverse nature of most societies, how well do you think you will be able to adopt a cross-cultural understanding?

·         What aspects of the work of these therapists do you admire and perhaps wish to model?

·         Which aspects of their work did you find inappropriate or too challenging for you personally?

·         How does what you learned and thought about make you think differently about the field of abnormal psychology and psychotherapy?