Cultivating Pluralism in Health Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4228187 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Maclachlan (0000-0001-6672-9206, Trinity College Dublin) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 373-382 |
| Publication date | 2000-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Health Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1053 • E-ISSN: 1461-7277 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135910530000500311 |
| PMID | 22049145 |
| OpenAlex | W2083206569 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
Historically health, illness and healing operated through a single medium, or idiom, within relatively culturally encapsulated societies. Our increasingly porous societies now present us with a plethora of cultural explanations for our states of 'being'. Health 'seekers' can now turn to a variety of health 'providers'. The complexities of this situation are illustrated by reviewing research from Africa on cognitive tolerance. In many western societies the clinician is also faced with the challenge of having to work with a plurality of complex ideas about health and illness, which he or she may be unfamiliar with. The Problem Portrait Technique (PPT) is presented as a means of assisting practitioners (and researchers) to assess the interplay of culture and health. It is argued that health psychology should cultivate pluralism both by acknowledging the influence of culture on health and by embracing the diversity of methodological and conceptual perspectives within itself
Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Health care · Health equity · Health psychology · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Seekers · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of health and illness · Variety (cybernetics · Anthropology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Representations and Identity · Social Psychology
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Nurses' Views of Parasuicide in a Developing Country
Moving cultures
From Dissonance to Tolerance
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Health Psychology in Context
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Patient and Family Experiences of Psychiatric Services and African Indigenous Healers
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |