Wednesday, November 13, 2013

WANTED: Psychologist to help for psychosocial intervention and stress debriefing

The Department of Education needs volunteers to help in conducting psychosocial intervention and stress debriefing for students and teachers affected by Typhoon Yolanda. DepEd is prioritizing health professionals with training on mental health & psychosocial intervention by National Center for Mental Health or accredited organizations.




Monday, November 11, 2013

After 35 years, Sikolohiyang Pilipino gets world respect

After 35 years, Sikolohiyang Pilipino gets world respect
By Vincent Cabreza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 11:08:00 12/29/2010
Source - http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20101229-311517/After-35-years-Sikolohiyang-Pilipino-gets-world-respect
Filed Under: Children, Culture (general)


GOOD SAMARITANS have started reaching out to children who are caught in a violent conflict or a debilitating cataclysm, using a psychological tool designed by a Filipino 35 years ago.

Dr. Rogelia Pe-Pua, head of University of New South Wales School for Social Sciences and International Studies in Australia, says donors used to ship toys to these children to help them cope with trauma.

But the toys were often too strange to them. Pe-Pua says many ended up tucked in shelves or wrapped in closets because they are too expensive to be smashed at play time.

Some foreign experts shrugged off this phenomenon, suggesting instead that the donors teach the children how to play with them, she says.

According to her, there are even stories about a Japanese expert who injects the children with happy enzymes.

Those days have passed.

Trauma programs

The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) now uses a program framework that puts value in culture, indigenous identity and the environment to help explain or define behavior that is peculiar to a certain country or race, Pe-Pua says.

Elizabeth Protacio-De Castro, a Filipino consultant, reviewed the trauma programs of 16 counties before coming out with a template that tells Unicef who the child beneficiary is, how culture shapes him, how the environment abuses him and what he truly needs to help him cope.

Pe-Pua says Unicef uses a mechanism known to the teachers and students as Sikolohiyang Pilipino, a 35-year-old academic movement that is not simply a Filipinized-version of mainstream psychology.

When psychologist Virgilio Enriquez founded the movement in 1975, he encouraged students to write in Filipino to help them discover indigenous perspectives about life, scientific knowledge and social relationships, which are lost when behavior is couched in a foreign language or theory.

The country's psychologists learned that their counterparts abroad had started adapting Enriquez's methodology when they assembled in November for the 35th Sikolohiyang Pilipino conference at the University of the Philippines Baguio.

Indigenous psychology

The world now interprets Sikolohiyang Pilipino, or simply SP, as indigenous psychology, which allows professionals to see the world from the perspective of the people they serve, says Pe-Pua, one of the founding members of the Pambansang Samahan sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino (PSSP or the National Association for Filipino Psychology).

Pe-Pua, a former UP professor, conducted a two-month study of 20 academics this year to determine the progress made by the SP. She discovered that the methodology had become a multidisciplinary tool for various professions in the country as it was originally intended.

An essay, published online by the National Historical Institute, states that Enriquez defined Philippine psychology as the embodiment of the scientific study of ethnicity, society and culture of a people and the formal application to psychological practice of core knowledge rooted in a people's ethnic heritage and consciousness.

According to Enriquez, the captive Filipino mind is sold to the idea that Filipinos do not have any indigenous religion and that the religion of the country was borrowed from Spain and America. He further explained that denying the facts of a people's history is tantamount to denying their memory. A people without a memory of their past is also deprived of their future, it points out.

Community advocacy

Pe-Pua says her survey indicates that the SP helped a prominent psychologist excel in community advocacy. "Once you become part of a community you intend to serve, you can't help but search for native concepts and explanations which you must use to understand behavior and phenomenon in a village," she says.

The SP helped another academic design intervention programs for maternal health and reproductive health, which value a client's cultural background and pakikipag-kapwa (sense of community) and treat participants as kapwa tao (fellow beings), she says.

The Unicef framework for children caught in conflict areas or cataclysms best defines how far the SP has reshaped world view, she says.

The shift in perspective may mean that donors will soon send typhoon-displaced children basketballs, dolls and yo-yos that they know how to play with rather than toys that require engineering backgrounds to put together, she says.

Friday, November 8, 2013

100 Most Popular 20th Century Psychologists





Psychologists were put to a popularity contest in a new study that appears in the Review of General Psychology (Vol. 6, No. 2), which ranks 99 of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century.
B.F. Skinner topped the list, followed by Jean Piaget, Sigmund Freud and Albert Bandura.
The rankings were based on the frequency of three variables: journal citation, introductory psychology textbook citation and survey response. Surveys were sent to 1,725 members of the American Psychological Society, asking them to list the top psychologists of the century.
Researchers also took into account whether the psychologists had a National Academy of Sciences membership, were elected as APA president or received the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, and whether their surname was used as an eponym.
"I was not surprised by most of the names who made it toward the top of the list," says lead researcher Steven J. Haggbloom, PhD, psychology department chair at Western Kentucky University. "But there are some notable names not on the list."
For example, psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, the first to experiment with human learning and memory, didn't make it.
Omissions like that are why researchers followed the idea of researcher Eugene Garfield, who did a Top 100 list in 1977 but left off No. 100. So, No. 100 might be the many great psychologists that someone could make a compelling case to include, Haggbloom says.
--M. DITTMANN

Source - http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug02/studyranks.aspx



The text below came from this link - http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/eminentpsychologists.htm

The 100 Most Eminent Psychologists of the 20th Century
Review of General Psychology. 2002, Vol. 6, No. 2, 139–152
Steven J. Haggbloom (Western Kentucky University)
Renee Warnick, Jason E. Warnick, Vinessa K. Jones, Gary L. Yarbrough,
 Tenea M. Russell, Chris M. Borecky, Reagan McGahhey, John L. Powell III,
 Jamie Beavers, and Emmanuelle Monte (Arkansas State University)
A rank-ordered list was constructed that reports the first 99 of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the 20th century. Eminence was measured by scores on 3 quantitative variables and 3 qualitative variables. The quantitative variables were journal citation frequency, introductory psychology textbook citation frequency, and survey response frequency. The qualitative variables were National Academy of Sciences membership, election as American Psychological Association (APA) president or receipt of the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, and surname used as an eponym. The qualitative variables were quantified and combined with the other 3 quantitative variables to produce a composite score that was then used to construct a rank-ordered list of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century. Article in the Monitor
1. B.F. Skinner
2. Jean Piaget
3. Sigmund Freud
4. Albert Bandura
5. Leon Festinger
6. Carl R. Rogers
7. Stanley Schachter
8. Neal E. Miller
9. Edward Thorndike
10. A. H. Maslow
11. Gordon W. Allport
12. Erik H. Erikson
13. Hans J. Eysenck
14. William James
15. David C. McClelland
16. Raymond B. Cattell
17. John B. Watson
18. Kurt Lewin
19. Donald O. Hebb
20. George A. Miller
21. Clark L. Hull
22. Jerome Kagan
23. Carl G. Jung
24. Ivan P. Pavlov
25. Walter Mischel
26. Harry F. Harlow27. J. P. Guilford
28. Jerome S. Bruner
29. Ernest R. Hilgard
30. Lawrence Kohlberg
31. Martin E.P. Seligman
32. Ulric Neisser
33. Donald T. Campbell
34. Roger Brown
35. R. B. Zajonc
36. Endel Tulving
37. Herbert A. Simon
38. Noam Chomsky
39. Edward E. Jones
40. Charles E. Osgood
41. Solomon E. Asch
42. Gordon H. Bower
43. Harold H. Kelley
44. Roger W. Sperry
45. Edward C. Tolman
46. Stanley Milgram
47. Arthur R. Jensen
48. Lee J. Cronbach
49. John Bowlby
50. Wolfgang Köhler
51. David Wechsler52. S. S. Stevens
53. Joseph Wolpe
54. D. E. Broadbent
55. Roger N. Shepard
56. Michael I. Posner
57. Theodore M. Newcomb
58. Elizabeth F. Loftus
59. Paul Ekman
60. Robert J. Sternberg
61. Karl S. Lashley
62. Kenneth Spence
63. Morton Deutsch
64. Julian B. Rotter
65. Konrad Lorenz
66. Benton Underwood
67. Alfred Adler
68. Michael Rutter
69. Alexander R. Luria
70. Eleanor E. Maccoby
71. Robert Plomin
72.5.* G. Stanley Hall
72.5. Lewis M. Terman
74.5.* Eleanor J. Gibson
74.5. Paul E. Meehl
76. Leonard Berkowitz77. William K. Estes
78. Eliot Aronson
79. Irving L. Janis
80. Richard S. Lazarus
81. W. Gary Cannon
82. Allen L. Edwards
83. Lev Semenovich Vygotsky
84. Robert Rosenthal
85. Milton Rokeach
88.5.* John Garcia
88.5. James J. Gibson
88.5. David Rumelhart
88.5. L. L. Thurston
88.5. Margaret Washburn
88.5. Robert Woodworth
93.5.* Edwin G. Boring
93.5. John Dewey
93.5. Amos Tversky
93.5. Wilhelm Wundt
96. Herman A. Witkin
97. Mary D. Ainsworth
98. Orval Hobart Mowrer
99. Anna Freud


*Numbers with .5 indicate a tie in the ranking. In these cases, the mean is listed.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

The Science of Happiness - An Experiment in Gratitude, ikaw masaya ka ba?

Wow it seems watching this relieved me of my migraine. Going to the you tube site and reading through the comments is insightful - how did the experiment measure happiness, etc, etc.

But whatever the measure was, for many more than a million who watched and could relate and resonate to the emotion and sentiments of the subjects I think the measure is not that important. They vicariously felt happy and experiencing such happiness is great and wonderful.

So whom have you made happy lately, whom have you told good things, whom have you made feel they are important in your life?

Perhaps for readers of this blog they are happy and have now time to watch this video after knowing that the Licensure Exam for Psychometrician is now postponed for  October 2014. So more time to prepare and keep always the happiness... and be grateful to life and everyone else important in your life.


 

Monday, October 28, 2013

PAPJA 27th Annual Convention

Encouraging all college Psychology students to attend this event, the 27th Annual Convention
of the PAP Junior Affiliates (PAPJA) on 17 January 2014 at SMX, Mall of Asia.




Sunday, October 27, 2013

Facebook Likers now at 50!



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Thursday, October 24, 2013

Sikolohiyang Pilipino Course Description

CHED Course Specification on Sikolohiyang Filipino  

refer to CHED Memorandum Order 38 Series of 2010 -
http://www.ched.gov.ph/chedwww/index.php/eng/content/download/1744/9056/file/CMO_38_s2010.pdf



Sikolohiyang Pilipino 

Course Description

The course is a study of concepts and methods in the field of culture and psychology, giving meaning to psychological reality based on the language and world view of the Filipino. The students will be introduced to indigenous concepts in Sikolohiyang Pilipino, and its applications in various fields of psychology. They will also be trained in the use of indigenous research methods. Furthermore, issues regarding Sikolohiyang Pilipino as a discipline and as a movement will also be discussed. The course will be conducted in Filipino.

Suggested Course Content


  • Indigenized Research Approaches (e.g. pakapa-kapa, pakiramdam, pakikisalamuha, pakikipagpalagayang loob)
  • Indigenous concepts (e.g. kapwa, loob)
  • Applications in various fields of Psychology



From the blog of  John Hermes Untalan at
http://www.jh_untalan.blogspot.com/2004/07/sikolohiyang-pilipino-filipino.html provides the following


Sikolohiyang Pilipino (SIKOPIL) Syllabus
(Filipino Psychology)
3 units


Prerequisite : Introduction to Psychology

Magiging mahalaga sa pag-aaral ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino ang mgakatutubong konsepto sa Kapilipinuhan. Ang kulturang Pilipino angsiyang magiging daan sa pagtuklas ng mga kaalamang ito sapamamagitan ng paggamit ng wikang Pilipino. papaksain sa pag-aaral ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino ang mga metodong naangkop sapagtuklas ng mga kaalaman at kaisipang Pilipino.

Chapter I
Introduction: What is an Indigenous Psychology?
1. Difference with Cross-Cultural, Cultural, Ethnopsychology, and Volkerpsychology.
2. Global Indigenous Psychology
3. Basic Tenets and Principles in IP?
4. Types and Levels of Indigenization
5. Current Trends and Directions

Chapter II
Sikolohiyang Pilipino: Philippine Indigenous Psychology
1. What is Sikolohiyang Pilipino?
2. Basic Tenets and Principles in SP
3. Philippine Psychology and Psychology in the Philippines.
4. History of SIkolohiyang Pilipino
5. Fields in Sikolohiyang Pilipino (see Chapter VI: 5)
6. Sikolohiyang Pilipino and Philippine Social Sciences (Agham-tao; Pilipinolohiya at Pantayong Pananaw) [see clemen aquino]

Chapter III
Pagkataong Pilipino: Indigenous Filipino Personality
1. Enriquez' Filipino Personality Theory
2. IPC Filipino Personality
3. Salazar's Kaluluwa at Budhi
4. Covar's Bayang Dalumat at Pagkataong Pilipino
5. Alejo's Loob
6. Filipino Personality and Values in Theology (Manggay, Talisayon), Philosophy (Quito; Gripaldo), Literature (Lumbera)and Arts (others: Licuanan, Fernandez)
7. Filipino Trait and Personality Psychology by Church and Katigbak
8. Sta Maria's Filipino self

Chapter IV
Katutubong Panukat na Sikolohikal: Indigenous Personality Measurement
1. Panukat ng Pagkataong Pilipino by Carlota
2. Panukat ng Ugali at Pagkatao by Enriquez and Guanzon-Lapena
3. Locally-Developed Psychological Tests by Cipres-Ortega and Guanzon-Lapena
4. Discussions on new developed indigenous/local psychological tests

Chapter V
Katutubong Pamamaraan ng Pananaliksik: Indigenous Research Methods
1. Basic Tenets and Principles in an Indigenous Research Methods
2. Pakikiramdam: Isang Mahalagang Sangkap sa Pananaliksik (Mataragnon)
3. Enriquez and Santiago's Iskala ng Mananaliksik
4. Pakikipagkuwentuhan (Orteza; Javier)
5. Pagtatanung-tanong (Pe-Pua)
6. Ginabayang Talakayan (Galvez; Aguiling-Dalisay)
7. Pakikipanuluyan, Nakikiugaling Pagmamasid, Pakapa-kapa, Pagmumuni

Chapter VI
Fields in Filipino Psychology: Applied and Social Psychology
1. Filipino political psychology (montiel); social cognition (conaco); peace and conflict resolution (sta maria)
2. Filipino sexuality and gender; Filipino Feminism (claudio-estrada; tan; guerrero)
3. Filipino Psychotherapy (bautista; protacio-de castro; carandang; clemena)
4. Sikolohiyang Panlipunan-at-Kalinangan (salazar; sta maria)
5. Unang Dekada ng Sikolohiyang Pilipino (protacio-marcelino at pe-pua)
6. Filipino Social Psychology (gastardo-conaco) and pahiwatig (manggay)
7. new directions: volunteering (aguiling-dalisay, yacat, and navarro); developmental psychology (liwag)

Chapter VII
Closing Indigenous Psychologies
1. Critique in Sikolohiyang Pilipino and Indigenous Psychologies
2. Paper Presentations of Research and Reaction Papers
3. Seminar/Workshop in Sikolohiyang Pilipino



References in Sikolohiyang Pilipino

Joy B. Alvarez (1975) Hiya: kahulugan, manipestasyon at kadahilanan. In V.G. Enriquez(ed.)
Pagkataong Pilipino: I. Layunin, Ugali, Katangian at Pakikipagkapwa.
(pp. 115-126). QuezonCity: Department of Psychology, University of the Philippines.

Isidro Panlasigui (1977) Ang Sikolohiya ng mga Pilipino. In V.G. Enriquez (ed.)

Sikolohiyang Pilipino:Mga Piliping Papel (Serye ng mga Papel sa Pagkataong Pilipino), Paper No. 1 (August), 2-10. (Also as The Psychology of the Filipino People.) Far Eastern Economic Review (1956), 21(25),811-823.)

Nida R. Almonte & Abraham B. Velasco (1977) Ang Konseptong ng Disiplina ng mga Pilipino: IsangPanimulang Pag-aaral. In V.G. Enriquez (ed.) Sikolohiyang Pilipino: Mga Piliping Papel (Serye ng mgaPapel sa Pagkataong Pilipino), Paper No. 3 (October),23-47.

Indigenous personality measures: Philippine examples. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
| January 01, 1998 | Guanzon-Lapena, Ma. Angeles; Church, A. Timothy; Carlota, Annadaisy J.; Katigbak,Marcia S. | Copyright 

After noting the need for indigenous scale construction efforts in the Philippines, the current article focuses on the development and current status of two multidimensional measures of Filipino personality constructs, plus two projects that are investigating indigenous Filipino personality structure. In a final section, we note apparent convergences between the personality dimensions identified and assessed by these four projects and consider how these dimensions might relate to purported universal dimensions of personality (i.e., the "Big Five" dimensions).Reviews of the status of psychological measurement in the Philippines have highlighted two related problems: the questionable applicability of foreign-made tests and the dearth of locally developed tests (e.g., Bulatao & Guthrie, 1968; Carlota & Lazo, 1987; Church, 1987; Guanzon, 1985; Ramos,1977). Strong misgivings have been expressed about the relevance to Filipino behavior of the theories underlying foreign-made tests, and researchers and scientist-practitioners have been urged to develop indigenous tests. The restiveness of the Philippine academic community over the need for more culturally sensitive theorizing was reflected in the Sikolohiyang Pilipino (FilipinoPsychology) movement that began in the 1970s. Enriquez (1994) described Sikolohiyang Pilipino as rooted in its Malayo-Polynesian and Asian heritage, a psychology based on the experience, ideas,and orientation of the Filipino, with psychology defined on the basis of categories drawn from the Filipino language and culture. Local test development was thus welcomed as a cross-cultural indigenization effort in which culture is treated as source rather than target (Enriquez, 1979).Discussions of indigenous psychological concepts and research methods that have emerged as a result of the Sikolohiyang Pilipino movement can be found in a number of sources (e.g., Aganon &David, 1985; Enriquez, 1992; Pe-Pua, 1982).In a recent effort to document and organize existing work on psychological test development in the Philippines, both published and unpublished, Ortega and Guanzon-Lapena (1997) observed an upsurge in academic interest in the development of indigenous psychological measures. Whereas in the 1950s a mere handful of tests in educational psychology were locally developed, Ortega andGuanzon-Lapena's (1997) current listing includes more than 200 locally developed measures on a wide variety of Filipino characteristics, for example, katalinuhan (intelligence), pagkarelihiyoso(religiousness), kaasalang sekswal (sexual behavior), kakayahang magdala ng tensyon (ability tocope with stress), pagkamabahala (anxiety), kahustuhang emosyonal (emotional maturity),pakikipag-ugnayan (adjustment-maladjustment), Filipino management style, and gender sensitivity,to name a few.This article focuses on the development and current status of two multidimensional measures of Filipino personality constructs--the Panukat ng Pagkataong Pilipino (PPP; Carlota, 1985) and thePanukat ng Ugali at Pagkatao (PUP; Enriquez & Guanzon-Lapenia, 1997)--plus two projects that areinvestigating indigenous Filipino personality structure (Church, Reyes, Katigbak, & Grimm, 1997;Katigbak, Church, & Akamine, 1996). In a final section, we summarize hypothesized convergencesbetween the personality dimensions identified and assessed by the different approaches...