MOVING TOWARD A GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGY - CHANGING THEORIES AND PRACTICE TOMEET THE NEEDS OF A CHANGING WORLD

Increasingly the United States is becoming internationalized as a resu lt of sophisticated communication technologies that put us in touch wi th countries known previously to only a few, through economic developm ent and multinational investment, and by the immigration of people who are sometimes fleeing hostile homelands. U.S. citizens, like others a broad, will need to be responsive to the demands of a multiethnic, mul tiracial, and multinational society The challenges of this changing wo rld can and will range from such dilemmas as ethical decisions of who can and will have access to expensive technology that saves and prolon gs life, to the development of conflict management strategies for peac eful coexistence with neighbors whose behaviors, beliefs, and values a re strongly shaped by their religious, cultural, and ethnic background s and socioeconomic circumstances, With the inauguration of this secti on, U.S. psychology is invited to consider its contribution to meeting the needs of a changing society.