Halina Grzymala-Moszczynska

• Professor
• Chair at Ignatianum University in Kracow

Migration is increasing while a sense of belonging is threatened within diverse communities. The Social Identity Approach presents a pathway towards belonging, and Allport’s Contact Hypothesis outlines necessary conditions for positive contact amongst culturally diverse groups. The present study extends these theories by exploring the impact of cre...

This study delves into the diverse experiences of Ukrainian refugee women in Poland amid the ongoing Russian war, employing a community-based participatory action research approach in collaboration with a Polish foundation aiding Ukrainian war refugees. With the practical aim of formulating recommendations for the third sector assisting refugees, 3...

This study aimed to address the mental health challenges faced by refugee artists who are grantees of ICORN—the International Cities of Refuge Network—from the perspective of the extended conceptual ADAPT model. The study employed exploratory qualitative research, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ICORN artists in Pola...

The Russian Federation’s attack on Ukraine has resulted in a number of socio-economic challenges for Poland. Currently, Poland needs an effective strategy to cope with the influx of people fleeing the war and also to create a vision of the future, taking into account the challenges and opportunities emerging in various areas of socio-economic life...

Contemporary religious studies are not limited to traditional fields and methods of inquiry (such as textual analysis) which dominated the discipline for a long time. In recent decades the study of religions has significantly expanded its meth-odological toolbox. 1 It has reconceived its object of study and its mission, entered into vigorous engage...

https://brill.com/view/title/60346 This book forms an introduction to the emerging discipline of “psychology of migration”, which is an interdisciplinary field of reflection and research, joining together diverse subfields of psychology with anthropological, sociological, demographic and historical inquiry on migration processes. The introductory...

This article presents the results of a pilot study on Polish migrants’ relations with the Norwegian health services. The study was qualitative in nature – 20 partially structured interviews were conducted with Poles living in Norway for more than two years who had contact with the Norwegian healthcare system. The aim of the study was to identify po...

The article concentrates on answering the main question to be addressed, as stated in its title: which psychology(ies) serves us best? In order to achieve this goal, we pursue possible answers in history of psychology of religion and its interdisciplinary relationships with its sister disciplines, anthropology of religion and religious studies, res...

This article forms a contribution to the discussion on the “replication crisis” in psychology from the qualitative research perspective and qualitative-oriented psychology of religion. The main theme of our article is, how should we deal, as qualitative-oriented psychologists of religion, with the issue of replicability? The introductory part of th...

The goal of our article is to present the subject of forced migration as a very interesting and socially relevant research field that could contribute to further development of the psychology of religion. We focus on further development of the toolbox of the psychology of religion, seeking further application of Sunden’s role theory and introducing...

Streszczenie: W artykule zawarto przegląd podstawowych zagadnień związanych z konsekwencjami wzrastającej wielokulturowości polskiego społeczeństwa dla etyki zawodowej psychologa w kontekście klinicznym. W pierwszej części omówiono kwestie związane z diagnostyką psychologiczną osób pochodzących z innych kultur, przybliżono pojęcie diagnozy wrażliwe...

Streszczenie: Artykuł umożliwia zapoznanie się ze szczegółowymi wytycznymi, dotyczącymi etyki w dwóch zmieniających się obszarach pracy psychologa w edukacji: badaniach naukowych i praktyce szkolnej. Obszary te podlegają cyklicznym przemianom, nie tylko ze względu na rozwój nauk humanistycznych oraz liczne reformy systemu edukacji, lecz także na wr...

The article contains a review of basic notions connected with the consequences of an increasing multiculturalism of Polish society for the professional ethics of a psychologist in a clinical context. In the first part the issues connected with a psychological diagnosis of people of different cultural background are presented. Also, a notion of a cu...

The article allows to get to know the precise guidelines regarding the ethics in two changing areas in the work of school psychologists: in scientific research and in school practice. These areas undergo cyclic changes, not only due to the development of humanities and numerous reforms of educational system, but also because of an increasing multic...

This comparative article examines the cognitive and linguistic functioning of Roma children attending both mainstream and special primary schools in Poland. Although many studies have investigated the segregation of Romani children in education, only a few of these have used psychological diagnostic tests as a source of information about Roma child...

Syrian refugees in Turkey. The specificity of dealing with the situation of forced migration The article addresses the research question: “How do Syrian refugee women in Turkey cope with the problems related to the forced migration?”. The research findings are based on qualitative semi-structured interviews conducted in Hatay province, south-east...

Cartoons as a way of coping with refugee trauma This article aims at presenting the impact of artistic creativity on the mental health of refugees. Several levels of influence have been analysed: neurobiological, narrative, contextual, symbolic, activating, socio-political and ritual. The research question is whether and how the creation of artist...

This comparative article examines the cognitive and linguistic functioning of Roma children attending both mainstream and special primary schools in Poland. Although many studies have investigated the segregation of Romani children in education, only a few of these have used psychological diagnostic tests as a source of information about Roma child...

[English version below] Niniejszy rozdział omawia najważniejsze zagadnienia związane z diagnozowaniem dzieci i młodzieży, które pochodzą z innych kultur niż polska i dla których język polski nie jest pierwszym językiem. W tekście wskazujemy, w jaki sposób kultura wywiera istotny wpływ na osoby uczestniczące w procesie diagnozy - osobę diagnozującą...

Contemporary discourse on refugees from the Middle East in Poland revolves around two poles of the problem: the postulate of empathy towards people threatened by war and a danger that these people can supposedly impose on Poland and other EU countries. The religious factor seems to play a significant role in this discourse – refugees who come from...

W artykule przedstawiono standardy kulturowo wrażliwej i kompetentnej opieki medycznej, oparte na amerykańskim modelu Skoncentrowanej na Pacjencie Kulturowo Wrażliwej Opieki Zdrowotnej (Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care; PC-CSHC) oraz zasady komunikowania międzykulturowego.

Increasing cultural diversity is one of the changes that are happening in Polish school. This is reflected, for example, by the presence of foreign students in Polish classrooms who represent religious traditions other than Roman Catholic tradition. The purpose of the article is to provide a synthetic presentation of parenting and educational model...

Contemporary Paganism is often described by its followers as a revival or reconstruction of the religions of pre-Christian Europe, which is sometimes referred to as "The Old Way". Most followers of the Neo-Pagan movement state revitalisation of the Old Faith is not only a matter of individual choice of religion that is strongly rooted in tradition,...

This article outlines the issue of bringing up a child in a multicultural family on the basis of the authors’ own research as well as literature on the subject of multicultural marriages. We conducted twenty unstructured interviews with Polish women whose partners originate from a culture different than the Polish one. The data gathered was process...

Kim są profesjonaliści? Na potrzeby niniejszej analizy przyjęto, że są to osoby o wysokich kwalifikacjach, posiadające doświadczenie zawodowe umożliwiają-ce wykonywanie specjalistycznej pracy (OECD, 2002). Pracują one zgodnie ze swoimi kwalifikacjami zawodowymi w sektorze usług, a ich praca cieszy się wy-sokim prestiżem społecznym. Idąc za propozyc...

Compared influence of psychological and sociocultural conditions on understanding of religious expressions in 74 Dutch and 89 Polish university students. Ss completed the Metaphor Triads Test, the authors' version of LAM-scales, and F. Derk's (1990) Religious Attitudes Questionnaire. Higher levels of metaphoric competence led to a higher preference...

The psychology of religion in Poland is examined from 1913 to 1939 and from 1975 to today, with reference to the main contributors, the institutions where they worked, and the specific topics that have been investigated.