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Building Asian Families and Communities in the 21st Century: Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Psychological Association Conference, Kuala Lumpur, de Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar

Building Asian Families and Communities in the 21st Century: Selected Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Psychological Association Conference, Kuala Lumpur,

Editat de Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, Sherri McCarthy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2009
Provides an overview of the research in psychology throughout Asia, including papers that demonstrate the adaptation of the discipline to issues specific to families and communities within that region of the world. This work is suitable for psychologists, counsellors, academics and others with an interest in psychology throughout the world.
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ISBN-13: 9781443813587
ISBN-10: 1443813583
Pagini: 754
Dimensiuni: 145 x 208 x 53 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Editura: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Notă biografică

Jas Laile Suzana Jaafar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology, where psychology is housed, at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She was born and raised in Malaysia, and received her university education in psychology in Ireland and the UK. Dr. Jaafar organized the 2nd International Conference of the Asian Psychological Association in 2008, and is Past-President of that organization. She has authored two books, Adolescent Psychology (Lumpur, 2002) and Child and Adolescent Psychology (Lumpur, 2002) and a co-author of the chapter on Malaysia in State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People (Praeger Security International, 2009) and the chapter on Asia in Teaching Psychology around the World, Vol. 2 (C-S-P, 2009) in addition to articles in several journals including Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, The Malaysian Journal of Social Administration, and Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology. Her areas of expertise are adulthood and aging, adolescent psychology, and child psychology. Dr. Jaafar is currently engaged in research comparing quality of life in countries around the world with several international colleagues and also works closely with colleagues in Korea, the U.S. and Indonesia on cross-cultural teaching and research projects. Sherri McCarthy, Ph.D. is Professor of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Human Relations at Northern Arizona University-Yuma. Her research spans a variety of areas, including educational, counseling, developmental, forensic and peace psychology. Dr. McCarthy is the author of several books, including Coping with Special Needs Classmates (Rosen, 1995); Death in the Family (International Self-Counsel Press, 1993); Teaching Psychology around the World (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007); Preventing Teen Violence (Greenwood-Praeger, 2006) and Teaching Psychologyaround the World, Volume Two (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009). She has also written several book chapters, including overviews of data pertaining to peace psychology from Russia, Brazil and Asia in State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People (Praeger Security International, 2009); chapters on the role of the state in peace psychology, aggression and moral disengagement in Citizens Views on Governmental Aggression and Peace: Multinational Comparisons (Springer, 2010), the chapter on adolescence in Psychology of Terrorism (Greenwood-Praeger, 2002), chapters on drug courts and crack kids in Treating Abusers in Correctional Settings, (Haworth, 2003) and chapters on grief and bereavement counseling and program evaluation in Handbook of Practice-based Research(Oxford, 2004). Her articles have appeared in several journals, including Peace Psychology, Teaching of Psychology, Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving, Psychologie Practiques, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Arizona Counseling Journal and others. She spent a year in Russia as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and 3 years in Brazil as a CNPq visiting scholar. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Bologna, Italy in 2007 and has been a visiting professor at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur since March, 2008. Sherri is on the Board of Directors for the Asian Psychological Association and the International Council of Psychologists, active with Inter-TOP, a group which organizes the International Conferences on Psychology Education (ICOPE), a Fellow of APA Division 52 and the Division 2 Liaison to APA's Council on International Relations in Psychology. She received her degrees (B.A. Psychology; B.Ed. English/ESL; M.A. Special Education & School Psychology and Ph.D. Counseling & Human Development) at Arizona State University in the U.S.A. and has been teaching psychology at the college & university level in both undergraduate and graduate programs around the world for the past two decades.