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IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN ETHICS IN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN FACTS AND ACADEMICIAN'S PERCEPTION
Author(s) -
Montero Maritza,
Winkler María Inés
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.21667
Subject(s) - latin americans , contradiction , identity (music) , perception , delphi method , psychology , action (physics) , politics , community psychology , sociology , social psychology , engineering ethics , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , statistics , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , acoustics , engineering
Changes in practices, action, roles, and professional functions confronted by community psychology (CP) bring new challenges to the discipline. We consulted 15 CP academicians about future challenges in CP practice, research, and education, mainly regarding ethics and values. A Delphi panel was applied to them. Qualitative and quantitative results were obtained from 3 circulations in response to 4 questions concerning the most relevant problems in CP and its training: basic competences, ethical aspects, and challenges. Results show relevant answers pointing out tasks already in practice within PC, as well as new subjects in, and for, intervention. High consensus presents as future ethic challenge, political engagement, and critical standing practices developed around Latin America and other places around the world. Superposing of CP and social psychology, definitions were also found, posing problems of identity, roles, and functions. Academic biases of participants limit the results obtained, presenting known problems already found in published papers.