Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Selected international publications by Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
- I Cultural and cross-cultural psychology: selected perspectives
- II Development in the family context
- III Culture and self
- IV Social change, family, and gender
- V Induced change
- 18 Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: Between valid transfer and cultural imposition
- 19 Design of culturally-appropriate developmental interventions
- 20 Designing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: The case study of the Fifth Dimension
- 21 Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills
- 22 Pro-poor approaches to using technology for human development: Monitoring and evaluation perspectives
- Epilogue
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- References
18 - Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: Between valid transfer and cultural imposition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Selected international publications by Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
- I Cultural and cross-cultural psychology: selected perspectives
- II Development in the family context
- III Culture and self
- IV Social change, family, and gender
- V Induced change
- 18 Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: Between valid transfer and cultural imposition
- 19 Design of culturally-appropriate developmental interventions
- 20 Designing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: The case study of the Fifth Dimension
- 21 Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills
- 22 Pro-poor approaches to using technology for human development: Monitoring and evaluation perspectives
- Epilogue
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- References
Summary
A few conferences held around 1970 were crucial for the development of cross-cultural psychology. Çiğdem attended one of these early meetings, organized by L. Cronbach and P. Drenth in Istanbul in 1971. It also happened to be my first international cross-cultural congress. Since then we have met many times and cooperated on various projects. In retrospect the Istanbul conference seems to be one of the few times when we did not (yet) have academic disagreements. I have learned a lot from the lucid arguments with which Çiğdem has questioned my viewpoints and this may be a good place to express my appreciation. For the present chapter I have chosen a topic about which we have not argued much, perhaps because we hold rather similar opinions. It deals with one aspect of a significant part of Çiğdem's work, namely intervention programs.
The construction, implementation, and evaluation of intervention programs have developed into a major field of applied psychology. Such programs are meant to bring about changes in behavior in ways that promote the competencies and wellbeing of program clients. This chapter mainly pertains to programs aiming at compensation of educational deficits, community development, and unhealthy or potentially unhealthy forms of behavior. There is a focus on disadvantaged groups with low education, low income, and low access to opportunities for development.
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