Author Description

Introduction -- Caribbean psychology: more than a regional discipline / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Derek Chadee -- Conceptual issues -- Caribbean psychology: context, imperatives and future directions / Ava D. Thompson -- Global, indigenous and regional perspectives on international psychology / John Berry -- Developmental psychology -- Family socialization practices and childhood development in Caribbean cultural communities / Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and Bora Jin -- Remote acculturation and the birth of an Americanized caribbean youth identity on the islands / Gail M. Ferguson -- Caribbean research on human development in adolescence and adulthood: progress and recommended directions / Ishtar Govia, Vanessa, Paisley-Claire, and Tiffany Palmer -- Health and community psychology -- Current state of health and health outcomes in Caribbean societies / Lutchmie Narine -- Contextualizing the health behavior of caribbean men / Andrew D. Case and Derrick M. Gordon -- Interpersonal violence in the Caribbean: etiology, prevalence, and impact / Gillian Mason and Nicola Satchell -- Social psychology -- Fear of crime: the influence of community and ethnicity / Mary Chadee and Derek Chadee -- Copy cat behavior: implications for research in the caribbean, raymond surette / Mary Chadee, and Derek Chadee -- HIV/AIDS stigmatization in the Caribbean: implications for health care / Jannel Philip, Rosana Yearwood, and Derek Chadee - Clinical psychology -- Mental health in the Caribbean / Jackie Sharpe and Samuel Shafe -- Metamorphosing Euro-American psychological assessment instruments to measures developed by and for english speaking Caribbean people / Michael C. Lambert, Whitney C. Sewell, and Alison H. Levitch -- Innovations in clinical psychology with Caribbean peoples / Rita Dudley-Grant