Glossary C
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Cross-cultural Communication refers to communication between people of two different ethnic backgrounds.
Cross-cultural comparison refers toa study that compares the behavior and/or development of people from different cultural or subcultural backgrounds.
Cross-cultural issues is the acknowledgement that counseling is not working for many clients of color and that clinicians need to be vigilant about having an ever increasing awareness of their own assumptions, values, and biases; an understanding of the worldview of the culturally different client; and the ability to apply adequate intervention strategies when working with culturally different clients
Cross-cultural myths refer to eight myths/attitudes that some clinicians hold that deleteriously affects their work with minority clients. Include: melting pot myth, differing expectations about counseling, not understanding impact of social forces, ethnocentric worldview, ignorance of own racist attitudes and prejudices, not understanding cultural differences in expression of symptomatology, not realizing bias in assessment and research instruments, and being unaware of institutional racism.
Cross-cultural Psychology refers to the branch of psychology that studies and compares the effects of culture on behaviour
Deutsch: Kulturvergleichende Studien / Español: Estudios interculturales / Português: Estudos interculturais / Français: Études interculturelles / Italiano: Studi interculturali
Cross-cultural studies in psychology explore the ways in which culture influences psychological processes, behaviors, and attitudes. This field examines differences and similarities across diverse cultures to understand how cultural contexts shape human thought, emotion, and behavior.
Cross-dressing which is also known as Transvestism is defined as dressing in the clothing of the opposite sex. Transvestism is distinct from both Transsexualism and Homosexuality. In Psychiatry, it can be considered a paraphilia.