International Psychology - Foci

Foci

Some of the major foci of international psychology include:

• The worldwide study of psychological processes and phenomena (e.g., Gielen & Chumachenko, 2004; Hofstede, 2001).
• Macro-level interventions and policy making, for example, international efforts to reduce HIV infections based on psychological research (Wessells & Dawes, 2007).
• Micro- level interventions, for example, counseling and psychotherapy, school psychology, and interventions in organizations (e.g., Moodley, Gielen, & Wu, 2013; Pedersen, Lonner, Draguns, & Trimble, 2007).
• International networking and international psychology organizations and conferences, such as IUPsyS, IAAP, IACCP, EFPA, SIP, APA’s Division 52 – International Psychology (Merenda, 1995), and the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology (IICCP).
• Pedagogy expansion and internationalization of psychology curricula, for example, rewriting the history of psychology from a global point of view, together with corresponding changes in the curriculum (Brock, 2007; Leon et al., 2012).
• Establishing shared training standards, professional rehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogingulations, and codes of ethics (Pettifor, 2007).