Clinical Decision Making in Mental Health Practice

Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Caribbean Psychology — More Than a Regional Discipline
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Derek Chadee

I. Conceptual Issues

1. Toward a Caribbean Psychology: Context, Imperatives, and Future Directions
   Ava D. Thompson
2. Global, Indigenous, and Regional Perspectives on International Psychology
   John Berry

II. Developmental Psychology

1. Family Socialization Practices and Childhood Development in Caribbean Cultural Communities
   Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Bora Jin
2. Remote Acculturation and the Birth of an Americanized Caribbean Youth Identity on the Islands
   Gail M. Ferguson
3. Caribbean Research on Human Development in Adolescence and Adulthood: Progress and Recommended Directions
   Ishtar O. Govia, Vanessa Paisley-Clare, and Tiffany Palmer

III. Health and Community Psychology

1. Current State of Health and Health Outcomes in Caribbean Societies
   Lutchmie Narine
2. Contextualizing the Health Behavior of Caribbean Men
   Andrew D. Case and Derrick M. Gordon
3. Interpersonal Violence in the Caribbean: Etiology, Prevalence, and Impact
   Gillian E. Mason and Nicola Satchell

IV. Social Psychology

1. Copycat Crime Behavior: Implications for Research in the Caribbean
   Ray Surette, Mary Chadee, and Derek Chadee
2. Fear of Crime: The Influence of Community and Ethnicity
   Mary Chadee and Derek Chadee
3. HIV/AIDS Stigmatization in the Caribbean: Implications for Health Care
   Jannel Philip, Rosana Yearwood, and Derek Chadee

V. Clinical Psychology

1. Mental Health in the Caribbean
   Jacqueline Sharpe and Samuel Shafe
2. Metamorphosing Euro American Psychological Assessment Instruments to Measures Developed by and for English-Speaking Caribbean People
   Michael Canute Lambert, Whitney C. Sewell, and Alison H. Levitch
3. Innovations in Clinical Psychology With Caribbean Peoples
   Rita Dudley-Grant

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