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Internationalizing Multiculturalism

Expanding Professional Competencies in a Globalized World

Herausgeber: Lowman, Rodney L

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This book broadens the concept of multiculturalism to encompass internationalism-in other words, it internationalizes multiculturalism. It argues that professionals in all fields can enhance both their multicultural and international competence to perform more effectively. The contributors review the relevant research and, drawing also from personal experience, apply these concepts to real-world professional practice in business, mental health, and education-three areas that are especially well positioned to impact the health and well-being of clients, employees, and customers. This book will ...

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Rodney L. Lowman, PhD, is currently a distinguished professor in the California School of Professional Psychology and is past dean, provost/vice president of academic affairs and acting president of Alliant International University. His ancestry mirrors the theme of this book, as his paternal grandmother moved to Indian Territory in a covered wagon and his maternal grandparents were from Canada and Spanish Honduras, Central America. The author or editor of nine books and monographs, Dr. Lowman has published more than scholarly publications and made hundreds of professional presentations all over the world. Besides the present book, his works include Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology The Ethical Practice of Psychology in Organizations (2nd ed.) The Clinical Practice of Career Assessment: Interests, Abilities, and Personality Counseling and Psychotherapy of Work Dysfunctions and Pre-Employment Screening: A Guide to Professional Practice. He currently serves as editor of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, the flagship journal in the field of consulting psychology, and was founding editor of The Psychologist-Manager Journal. He has also served on the editorial boards of other journals and has lectured widely both in the United States and abroad on professional ethics, consulting psychology, and counseling and psychotherapy of work dysfunctions. Dr. Lowman is a Fellow of APA, Divisions 2 (Clinical Psychology), 3 (Consulting Psychology), and 4 (Industrial and Organizational Psychology), and he is a Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology. He also serves on the Advisory Board and heads the Scientific Advisory Board of Leadership Worth Following, a Dallas-based consulting firm. He is past president of the Society for Consulting Psychology and for the Society for Psychologists in Management and has held many leadership roles in APA. Currently Dr. Lowman serves as research domain leader and has served as elected APA council representative for the Society of Consulting Psychology, and, beginning in 2 3, for the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Dr. Lowman has received many honors and recognitions for his professional work, including the Kilburg Service Award from the Society of Psychologists in Management, the Service Award from the Society for Consulting Psychology, and the International-Multicultural Provost's Pillar Award from Alliant International University. Dr. Lowman is president of Lowman and Richardson/Consulting Psychologists, PC and is licensed as a psychologist in California. He currently resides in San Diego, with his spouse, a clinical psychologist and mental health administrator. Their daughter is a writer and entrepreneur who lives in Boston.