The Birth of Psy-Professinals- Medical Anthropology of Okinawan Situation between 1980 and present

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17304
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Jumonji University
• Principal Investigator: TOWHATA Kaito 十文字学園女子大学, 人間生活学部, 講師 (30747506)
• Research Collaborator: TOKUYAMA Tomohiro ; MAEKAWA Yumiko
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 臨床心理士 / 公認心理師 / 医療人類学 / 臨床心理士養成大学院 / 沖縄 / 家裁調査官 / 児童相談所 / スクールカウンセラー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

What are the psy-professionals? This research aims to articulate their careers, their social functions and the change which they provide. The anthropological model which describe how psy-professionals were born in the context of cultural mesh is presented through the description about the history of them in Okinawa. According to the second modernization which Beck pointed, psy-professionals were made by the nation and academic community. Therefore, by the international comparative study, examination on how market could complement the defect of system is the further problem.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学