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The Acculturation of Community Psychology: Is There a Best Way?
Author(s) -
Birman Dina
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1002/ajcp.12106
Subject(s) - acculturation , community psychology , health psychology , identity (music) , refugee , perspective (graphical) , field (mathematics) , immigration , psychology , social psychology , sociology , cross cultural psychology , discipline , criminology , applied psychology , social science , public health , ethnic group , anthropology , political science , medicine , law , physics , nursing , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , acoustics , computer science
In this paper I describe a community psychology perspective on acculturation and adjustment of immigrants and refugees and suggest that this field of acculturation research has in turn something to offer heuristically as we consider our identity and training for future generations of community psychologists over the next 50 years. I suggest that honoring our heritage, maintaining our disciplinary identity as community psychologists, and sustaining doctoral programs that offer training specific to community psychology are crucial for our survival as a field and is not antithetical to, and is indeed necessary for, interdisciplinary collaborations.