Thank you for accessing this survey.

Its purpose is to ask you to describe situations you have encountered** in international professional engagement in research, teaching, or applied work. Your information will be used to help illustrate descriptions of the competencies that are important for engagement of U.S. psychologists in international activities. This is part of a longer project that APA's Committee on International Relations in Psychology (CIRP) is undertaking - to develop descriptions of the competencies that U.S. psychologists need to be ethical, sensitive, effective international partners.

There are 17 questions in the survey. We do not anticipate that you will have examples for each of them (it would be terrific if you did!) - so please look over the list and see which ones resonate with experiences you have had. We are looking for experiences (often "learning the hard way") that illustrate the kinds of situations that competencies for international engagement might address.

Please answer any of the questions that are relevant to your experiences. If a question is not relevant, or you do not wish to answer it, please simply skip it answer "NA" (for "no answer").

You may answer this survey anonymously, or you may provide your name and email at the end. If you do provide your name and email, we will send you a report on this project and a summary of examples collected.
 
Thank you very much for your assistance in this project of the APA Committee on International Relations in Psychology. 
If you have any questions, please contact CIRP co-chair Melissa Morgan Consoli at mmorga4@gmail.com
** Please note: This survey is designed to be answered by psychologists in the U.S. (for whom the competencies are designed) or psychologists outside the U.S. (with whom we hope U.S. psychologists will be good learning partner collaborators!). IF you are a psychologist in the U.S. please answer from your direct experiences. IF you are a psychologist outside of the U.S. who has interacted with U.S. psychologists please answer about behaviors you have observed in these interactions.

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* 1. Please describe your best practice procedures for how you learn about a country and community before engaging in international collaborations.

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* 2. Please describe a time when there was success in engaging local stakeholders in a research or intervention project. Please briefly describe the process and how you did it.

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* 3. Please tell about a time when you or someone else made assumptions about local practices based on experiences in the U.S. (psychology-specific or other) that turned out to have a different meaning or significance or goal in the local culture. This might refer to a time when you felt that you or others made a faux pas, or when you realized that you and your international collaborators had very different perspectives on what seemed to be "the facts".

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* 4. Adapting Systems: Please give an example of how you needed to adapt or change your procedures/perceptions to account for local norms, e.g., in use of time, hierarchical relationships, interpersonal relations.

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* 5. Adapting Models: Please give an example of a time when the psychological models or constructs with which you were familiar were not appropriate for the specific, international context, and/or when you used information about local psychological models to improve international collaborations in research, teaching, or application

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* 6. Communication Practices: Please tell a story about a time when you felt that communication in an international professional context was awkward, tense, or uncomfortable. Please describe the source of the conflict (e.g., differences in communication style, in interpretation of the situation), and how you dealt with it to achieve progress.

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* 7. Please describe a time when you or someone else seemed to employ a judgmental attitude in your interactions with colleagues internationally, or when it was difficult to overcome your own attitudes and beliefs about a cultural practice or circumstance in another country.

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* 8. Can you provide specific examples of times when you had to navigate a different psychology/professional system - e.g., in research permission or procedures, education or training sequence, nomenclature, or credentialing.

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* 9. Regulations: Tell us a story about when local or U.S. ethical or legal systems had a strong effect on your international work and why.

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* 10. Clinical Interventions: Please describe your experiences when you or someone you observed struggled to adapt, didn’t adapt, or successfully adapted clinical interventions to the local context.

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* 11. Research: Please describe some of the experiences you have encountered in doing research in other countries that have posed surprising hurdles, or that have been examples of differences of approach.

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* 12. Please let us know any other examples in your international experiences that would be good illustrations of the importance for cultural sensitivity, humility, knowledge, or action.

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* 13. Name and Email - please enter if you would like a report on this project (optional)

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