Culture and Psychopathology: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Practice
General data
Course ID: | 2500-EN-PS-CS5-01 |
Erasmus code / ISCED: |
14.4
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Course title: | Culture and Psychopathology: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Practice |
Name in Polish: | Culture and Psychopathology: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Practice |
Organizational unit: | Faculty of Psychology |
Course groups: |
(in Polish) Neuropsychology and Neuroscience specialization WISP specialization courses for 5 year WISP specialization courses: Psychotherapy |
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
2.00
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Language: | English |
Type of course: | elective courses |
Prerequisites (description): | (in Polish) Completed introductory course on Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology and completed course on psychotherapy |
Short description: |
This course will examine different dimensions of how Culture affects our understanding of psychology and psychopathology, the challenges of cross-cultural practice, and the relevance of culture to the field of mental health and psychological research. The course aims to increase awareness and develop understanding around the topics covered through open-minded study, personal reflection and lively discussion. Texts will draw from cultural theory, psychology and clinical practice, inviting students to consider some fundamental questions which have far-reaching implications for psychopathology, research, and everyday clinical interventions. Students should be willing to critically reflect on the values and discourses informing their own perspectives and respect those of others. We will aim to cultivate a climate of respectful listening and curiosity, sensitive challenge, and personal reflection. |
Learning outcomes: |
Critical thinking; an introductory understanding of the far-reaching influence of culture on psychology as a discipline and how psychopathology is understood; treatment and practice implications of cultural factors; an insight into some of the intersections between Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology; self-reflexivity, i.e. a developing awareness of how factors such as culture, race, gender and our own specific contexts may affect how we think, perceive, and are perceived by those around us. |
Classes in period "Summer semester 2024/25" (past)
Time span: | 2025-02-17 - 2025-06-08 |
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Type of class: |
Seminar, 15 hours
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Coordinators: | (unknown) | |
Group instructors: | Vinai Norasakkunkit | |
Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
Credit: |
Course -
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Seminar - Grading |
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Full description: |
Each week the chosen texts will aim to link theory to practice, examining cultural discourses around norms, race and ethnicity, mental illness, and cross-cultural practice and research, amongst other topics. Relevant theoretical issues and practical dilemmas concerning universalism versus relativism, power, difference, intersectionality and racism will be explored. Each week students will be required to familiarize themselves with 2-3 texts and take part in a discussion of the ideas explored in each seminar topic. Classes will involve student presentations, close critical reading of the texts, and structured discussion. Students will be able to explore particular topics in more depth through their presentation and essay. This Seminar course requires a commitment to reading the minimum assigned materials and interrogating the potential biases of existing perspectives on the topic areas. |
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Bibliography: |
WEEK 1: Introduction to the course: Social Constructionism (45mins). Burr, V. (2003), What is Social Constructionism? In Social Constructionism, 2nd Ed., (pp.1-16) London: Routledge. WEEK 2: Discourse – Representation, Power and (available) Identities Hall, S. (1997), Foucault: Power, Knowledge and Discourse, in S. Hall (ed.) Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices, London: Sage. Hall, S. (1997), The Spectacle of the ‘Other’, in S. Hall (ed.) Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices, London: Sage. WEEK 3: Race, Racism, and Privilege Combs, G. (2019), White Privilege: What's a Family Therapist to Do?, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 45(1): 61-75 Rustin, M. (1991), Psychoanalysis, racism and anti-racism, in M. Rustin, The Good Society and the Inner World, pp.57-84 London: Verso. WEEK 4: Culture and Attachment Krause, I. B. (2014). The Complexity of Cultural Competence, pp.109-126 in Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking about Race, Culture, and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond (Ed. Lowe, F.), London: Karnac. Rothbaum, F. & Morelli, G. (2005). Attachment and culture: bridging relativism and universalism. In: Friedlmeier, W. et al, eds. Culture and Development. The importance of cross cultural research for the social sciences. pp.99-123, Hove: Psychology Press WEEK 5: Family, Kinship and Genograms Hardy, K. V. & Laszloffy T. A. (1995) The Cultural Genogram: Key to training culturally competent family therapists. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 21 (3), 227-237. Perelberg, R. J. (1992), Familiar and Unfamiliar Types of Family Structure: Towards a Conceptual Framework, in Kareem, J. and Littlewood, R. Intercultural Therapy (1992), Oxford: Blackwell. pp.112-132 Watts-Jones, D. (1997), Towards an African-American Genogram. Family Process 36(4): 375-383 WEEK 6: Intersectionality and Marginalisation Frazier, K. E. (2012). Reclaiming the Person: Intersectionality and Dynamic Social Categories Through a Psychological Lens, in Integrative Psychological and Behavioural Science, Vol. 46, pp.380-386. Holland, S. (1990). Psychotherapy, oppression and social action: gender, race, and class in black women’s depression, in Perelberg, R. J. and Miller, A. C. (Eds.) (1990), Gender and Power in Families pp. 256-269 Roberts, D. (2014). Complicating the triangle of race, class and state: the insights of black feminists, in Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2014 Vol.37, No.10, London: Routledge, pp.1776–1782. WEEK 7: Refugees and Violence James, K. (2010) Domestic Violence Within Refugee Families: Intersecting Patriarchal Culture and the Refugee Experience. In The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Famiy Therapy Volume 31, Number 3, pp.275-284. De Haene, L. & Rober, P. (2016), Looking for a Home: An exploration of Jacques Derrida’s notion of hospitality in family therapy practice with refugees. In Systemic Therapy as Transformative Practice (2016) Ed. Imelda McCarthy and Gail Simon, pp.94-110, Farnhill: Everything is Connected Press. WEEK 8: Cultural & Relational Reflexivity Krause, I.-B. (2012). Culture and the reflexive subject in systemic psychotherapy. In I.B.Krause (Ed.), Culture and Reflexivity in Systemic Psychotherapy: Mutual Perspectives, (pp.1-35). London: Karnac. Watts-Jones, D. (2010). Location of Self: Opening the Door to Dialogue on Intersectionality in the Therapy Process, Family Process, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp.405-420. |
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