Cultural self-assessment and intersectionality: decolonizing tools in psychological teaching and training
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cultural self-evaluation, intersectionality, decolonization, psychological trainingAbstract
Cultural self-evaluation and intersectionality are proposed as strategies to facilitate the integration of the decolonizing perspective in the field of psychology. Cultural self-assessment advocates the sincere and in-depth examination of the influence of dominant cultural messages on gender, age, ethnicity, ability, social class and religion, among others, in our beliefs, attitudes and actions. Intersectionality considers the crossing or intersection of the different dimensions of social diversity, thus presenting a much more complex and dynamic analysis compared to the traditional one-dimensional perspective. The decolonizing perspective welcomes and unifies a diversity of critical movements that advocate the deconstruction of the dominant discourses in order to develop a psychology anchored in the values of justice and social inclusion. The strategies of cultural self-evaluation and intersectionality reaffirm these values and are fundamental for the development of a decolonizing perspective.
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