Dealing with Culturally Sensitive Areas in Industrial Project Design

Challenges and Questions Concerning “Culturally- Sensitive Design”

Preliminary evaluation of culturally sensitive CBT for depression in Pakistan: findings from Developing Culturally-sensitive CBT Project (DCCP).

BACKGROUND There is sufficient research evidence in favour of cognitive therapy in western world. However, only limited research has been carried out on its effectiveness in other countries. It is suggested that adaptations in content, format and delivery are needed before CBT can be employed in non-western cultures. We describe a preliminary evaluation of culturally adapted CBT for depression ...

Dealing with Missing Software Project Data

Whilst there is a general consensus that quantitative approaches are an important adjunct to successful software project management there has been relatively little research into many of the obstacles to data collection and analysis in the real world. One feature that characterises many of the data sets we deal with is missing or highly questionable values. Naturally this problem is not unique ...

Designing culturally sensitive learning environments

The educational opportunities that global learning offers have stimulated a great deal of interest and initiatives from educational institutions all over the world. However, these institutions face significant challenges in programme design and delivery. Among the challenges are the development of teaching, learning and assessment modalities that recognise different learning styles and preferen...

Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapies in Confucian Societies

This article describes self-cultivation practices originating from the cultural traditions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. It delineates the therapeutic implications of the three states of self pursued by these three traditions: namely, the relational self, the authentic self, and the nonself. Several psychotherapy techniques derived from each of these traditions are discussed in the con...