Teaching Gender and Multicultural Awareness: Resources for the Psychology Classroom / Edition 1

by Kathryn Quina, Phyllis Bronstein

Overview

Teaching Gender and Multicultural Awareness provides information about how to integrate topics of diversity into a variety of psychology courses and programs of study. Because psychology now contains a rich body of knowledge that reaches across gender, social, and cultural lines, a single class about gender or cross-cultural studies is no longer sufficient to teach students about multiculturalism. Instead, such issues need to be incorporated into each part of the psychology curriculum. This edited volume helps instructors integrate information about diversity into their classes and directs them to useful printed, video, and Internet resources. It also includes creative projects and exercises that they can use in introductory or graduate level courses. Chapters discuss groups typically considered in a multicultural course (i.e., Latinos, Asians, and African Americans) as well as individuals who are often overlooked, such as the disabled, older adults, and lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. The book concludes with a section describing models for broader curricular change, such as in clinical doctoral training and continuing education programs. Filled with thoughtful and creative guidance by expert teachers, this book is a valuable resource for educators who seek effective methods to give students a thoughtful and comprehensive understanding of the culturally evolving world in which they will live and work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557989918
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	01/28/2003
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

	Contributors	xi
	Forewords
	Creating a Psychology of All People	xv
	The Richness of Human Realities	xvii
	Preface	xxi
	Introduction: Gender and Multiculturalism in Psychology: Transformations and New Directions	3
I.	Integrating Diversity Into General Psychology Courses	13
Chapter 1.	The Introductory Psychology Course From a Broader Human Perspective	15
Chapter 2.	Teaching Abnormal Psychology: Diversifying Structure and Content	33
Chapter 3.	Teaching Developmental Psychology: Celebrating the Dialectics of Development	45
Chapter 4.	Varying Angles and Wider Lenses: A Multicultural Transformation of the Undergraduate Social Psychology Course	59
Chapter 5.	Personality, Gender, and Culture	73
Chapter 6.	The Experimental Psychology Course	87
Chapter 7.	Teaching Biopsychology: The Interdependence of Psychology and Biology	99
Chapter 8.	Beyond Great Men and Great Ideas: History of Psychology in Sociocultural Context	113
Chapter 9.	Diversifying Health Psychology: The Sociocultural Context	125
Chapter 10.	Who is the Woman in the Psychology of Women?	137
II.	Gender, Ethnic, and Sociocultural Perspectives: Specialized Courses and Content Areas	153
Chapter 11.	Teaching About Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental Health	155
Chapter 12.	Teaching Cross-Cultural Psychology	169
Chapter 13.	Psychological Issues of Asian Americans	179
Chapter 14.	Teaching African American Psychology: Resources and Strategies	195
Chapter 15.	Teaching Latino Psychology	207
Chapter 16.	Infusing American Indian and Alaska Native Topics Into the Psychology Curriculum	221
Chapter 17.	Integrating Jewish Issues Into the Teaching of Psychology	237
Chapter 18.	Infusing Disability Issues Into the Psychology Curriculum	253
Chapter 19.	Teaching the Psychology of Later Life	271
Chapter 20.	Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Issues in the Psychology Curriculum	285
Chapter 21.	A Course on Men and Masculinity	299
III.	Programmatic and Pedagogical Issues	313
Chapter 22.	Building a Multicultural Community: One Department's Transformation	315
Chapter 23.	Continuing Education	325
Chapter 24.	Integrating Multicultural Issues Into Graduate Clinical Psychology Training	339
Chapter 25.	Dealing With Difficult Classroom Dialogue	347
	Index	361
	About the Editors	375