Culture and Ethnic Diversity: How European Psychologists Can Meet the Challenges

Culture and diversity are both challenge and opportunity. This volumelooks at what psychologists are and can be doing to help society meetthe challenges and grasp the opportunities in education, at work, andin clinical practice. The increasingly international and globalized natureof modern societies means that psychologists in particular facenew challenges and have new opportunities in all areas of practiceand research.The contributions from leading European experts cover relevant interculturalissues and topics in areas as diverse as personality, educationand training, work and organizational psychology, clinical and counsellingpsychlogy, migration, and international youth exchanges.As well as looking at the new challenges and opportunities that psychologistsface in dealing with people from increasingly varied culturalbackgrounds, perhaps more importantly they also explain and discusshow psychologists can deepen and acquire the intercultural competenciesthat are now needed in our professional lives.