TOPIC:  CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: on Going Global: How Psychologists Should Meet a World of Need

Assigned Reading/s: CHAPTER 10, pp. 207 - 227 [Shealy, Bullock, & Kapadia (Eds.) (2023)]

Supplementary Materials:

VIDEO: Global Psychology Coming Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlxbJDlxV10
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Article: Bosio, E. (2017). How do we create transformative global citizens?
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• EPILOGUE: A Final Note about "International Psychology"
  WHAT's NEXT?...
  "The answers and other developments in theory, research, intervention, and pedagogy, will certainly advance the field of global psychology greatly over the next few years. While it is an exciting period for psychologists and psychology students who are interested in global psychology, it is also a challenging one. There are myriad forces and events that could influence the direction of the specialty, some of which can be dimly envisaged (e.g., the expected course of globalization) and others which cannot be anticipated. The future course of global psychology also rests on the awareness and commitment of psychologists to communicate and collaborate in a horizontal and multidisciplinary fashion on various levels in an effort to understand and address the shared concerns and issues that face humankind. Perhaps, the most telling question that remains to be answered concerns the foundation and identity of the discipline of psychology as we know it. As the process of globalizing psychology ensues, how will its science and practice be transformed from the form in which it is currently constituted? Psychology will continue to evolve as it has in the past. Although this inevitable evolution can be forecast with limited accuracy, it would seem that the beliefs and customs of other cultures will be incorporated more extensively into the fabric of scientific and professional psychology in the future. Conversely, as psychology becomes more globally integrated, the history of psychology will be reconceptualized as transnational and multilingual, rather than as Western and English-dominated. New books that deconstruct the history of psychology (e.g., Brock, in press) will play a significant role in how psychologists and psychology students construe the discipline of psychology and their own identity within it." (Stevens & Gielen, 2007, pp. 397-399)