Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change.
 

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. PREFACE
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
6. Table of Contents
7. Part I Introduction
8. Chapter 1 Background
9. INTRODUCTION
10. TRADITIONAL PARADIGMATIC FRAMEWORKS AND HOW THEY HAVE SHAPED PSYCHOLOGY
11. CONSTRUCTIVIST PARADIGMS
12. A TRANSCULTURAL ETHNIC VALIDITY FRAMEWORK
13. SUMMARY
14. Chapter 2 The Structure of a Nested Framework
15. INTRODUCTION
16. THE ROLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL
17. SOCIOCULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
18. INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORKS
19. SUMMARY
20. Chapter 3 Psychology’s Nested Frameworks
21. INTRODUCTION
22. INTRODUCTION
23. ETHNIC VALIDITY FRAMEWORK
24. IMPLICATIONS FOR BROADER INTERACTIONS OR UNDERSTANDINGS
25. SUMMARY
26. Part II A Biopsychosocial Framework of Competence
27. Chapter 5 Individual Psychosocial Competence
28. INTRODUCTION
29. A METACONCEPTION
30. INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOSOCIAL COMPETENCE CONFIGURATION
31. ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS
32. CONFIGURALLY EMBEDDED PSYCHOSOCIAL COMPETENCE STUDIES
33. SUMMARY
34. Chapter 6 Psychosocial Leaps and Spirals
35. INTRODUCTION
36. CHOICE BASES OF PSYCHOSOCIAL LEAPS AND SPIRALS
37. MULTICULTURAL ETHNIC VALIDITY PATTERNS
38. LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVES AND RESILIENCE
39. THE POSSIBILITIES, LIMITS, AND PATHWAYS OF CHANGE
40. SUMMARY
41. Chapter 7 Autonomy and Relatedness
42. INTRODUCTION
43. AUTONOMY, OTHERS, AND RELATEDNESS
44. SUMMARY
45. Chapter 8 Resource Generation and Interchange
46. INTRODUCTION
47. RESOURCE INTERACTION NETWORKS
48. PATTERNS OF INTERACTION AND THE PROCESSES OF PERSONAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE
49. SUMMARY
50. A TRANSITION
51. Part III Representative Areas and Topics
52. Chapter 9 Belief Systems
53. INTRODUCTION
54. COMMON SENSE
55. SCIENCE AS A BELIEF SYSTEM
56. RELIGIONS AS BELIEF SYSTEMS
57. COMMONALITIES AMONG BELIEF SYSTEMS
58. A TRANSCULTURAL ETHNIC VALIDITY MODEL APPROACH TO BELIEF SYSTEMS
59. SUMMARY
60. Chapter 10 Pathology and Competence
61. INTRODUCTION
62. EVOLUTION OF THE PATHOLOGY ORIENTED PARADIGM
63. ONGOING CHALLENGES TO THE CURRENT PARADIGM
64. ETHNIC VALIDITY CONSIDERATIONS IN UNDERSTANDING PATHOLOGY AND COMPETENCE
65. SUMMARY
66. Chapter 11 Elitism, Racism, and Professionalism
67. INTRODUCTION
68. DEFINITIONS
69. THE GATEKEEPER ROLE
70. A TRANSCULTURAL ETHNIC VALIDITY PERSPECTIVE
71. THE HELPING PARADOX
72. SUMMARY
73. Chapter 12 Psychosocial Perspective on Violence and Extremism
74. INTRODUCTION
75. SPIRALS OF VIOLENCE
76. COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE
77. COUNTERING VIOLENCE
78. CONVERGING PROCESSES, DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES, AND CONFLICTING VALUES
79. FUTURE DIRECTIONS
80. SUMMARY
81. Part IV New Directions
82. Chapter 13 Interventions: An Evaluative Matrix
83. INTRODUCTION
84. INDIVIDUALLY FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS
85. PSYCHOSOCIOCULTURALLY FOCUSED INTERVENTIONS
86. INDIVIDUALS IN RELATION TO CONTEXT
87. SUMMARY
88. Chapter 14 Choosing and Evaluating Approaches to Change
89. INTRODUCTION
90. DIMENSIONS IN GUIDING AND EVALUATING CHANGE
91. PSYCHOSOCIAL CONCEPTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL SPECIALTIES, AND CHANGE
92. TRANSCULTURAL ETHNIC VALIDITY AS A COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR EVALUATING CHANGE
93. SUMMARY
94. Part V Conclusion
95. Chapter 15 Prospects and Challenges
96. INTRODUCTION
97. THE PSYCHOSOCIAL MATRIX OF PEOPLE’S LIVES
98. REPRESENTATIVE CHALLENGES IN PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIETY
99. CHANGE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
100. INTEGRATING PERSONAL AND SOCIAL COMMITMENTS AND ACTIVITIES
101. CLOSING REMARKS
102. REFERENCES