FILIPINO
PSYCHOLOGY
PREPARED BY: ZARALYN BERNARDO
MSPSY
Brief History of Filipino Psychology
CONTENT
Forms of Psychology in the Philippines
BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES
• Psychology as an academic discipline in the Philippines started in
the early 1900s
• In the early 1970s, it was a period marked by a high degree of
nationalism
- Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Psychology) started as a movement
within psychology and other related disciplines
BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY IN THE PHILIPPINES
- Sikolohiyang
Pilipino (SP) as a movement focuses on the following themes:
(a) identity and national consciousness;
(b) social awareness and involvement;
(c) national and ethnic cultures and languages, including the study of traditional
psychology; and
(d) bases and application of indigenous psychology in health practices, agriculture, art,
mass media, religion but also including the psychology of behavior and human abilities
as originated in Western psychology but was found applicable to the local setting
(Enriquez, 1993)
SP is a movement that has three primary areas of protest.
1. Sikolohiya ng pagbabagong-isip (psychology of re-awakening)
the movement is against a psychology that perpetuates colonial mentality and
promotes the decolonization of the Filipino mind as a stage in the development of
national consciousness.
2. Sikolohiyang malaya (liberated psychology)
it is against the importation and imposition of a psychology that has been
developed in, and is more appropriate to, industrialized countries.
3. Sikolohiyang mapagpalaya (liberating psychology)
the movement is against a psychology used for the exploitation of the masses.
Proponent of Filipino Psychology
• Virgilio Enriquez realize together with three other
colleagues—Prospero Covar (anthropologist), Zeus
Salazar (historian), and Alfredo Lagmay (psychologist
), the need to have a psychology based on the
experience, ideas, and orientation of the Filipinos.
Virgilio Enriquez
• Ama ng
Sikolohiyang
Filipino
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VIRGILIO ENRIQUEZ
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Professor of Psychology in the
University of the Philippines in
Diliman (1963), but left in 1966 for
the U.S. to further his study
In 1971, he embarked on a research
study with Lagmay
1975, he chaired the first national
conference on Filipino Psychology
Alfredo Lagmay
• Chairman of University
of the Philippines –
Department of
Psychology for 22 years.
Zeus Salazar
• A Filipino Historian, an
anthropologist,
psychologist, and
leading proponent of
“Pantayong Pananaw”
and the 4 traditions in
Philippine psychology
Prospero Covar
An anthropologist who probed the
Filipino values of pagkataong
pangloob, pagakataong panglabas, and
pakikipagkapwa
Sinforoso Padilla
• Father of Guidance in
the Philippines
Sinforoso Padilla
• the first to Major in Psychology from the
undergraduate to the doctorate level.
Fr. Angel de Blas
• the Experimental
Psychology laboratory in
UST.
University of Santo Tomas
• Firs university to offer
undergraduate,
master’s and doctoral
degrees in
psychology.
Estefancia Aldaba Lim
• first Filipino to
receive a Ph.D.
in Clinical
Psychology
from the
University of
Michigan.
Dr. Mariano Obias
• the first IO Psychologist who
are graduated with a PhD in
Comparative and Physiological
Psychology from Stanford in
1955 and then went on to
head the Personnel
Department at Caltex
Philippines.
Jaime Bulatao, S.J
• Established the
Department of
Psychology at the
Ateneo de
Manila.
FILIPINO
PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY IN
THE PHILIPPINES
PSYCHOLOGY OF
FILIPINOS
PSYCHOLOGY IN
THE
PHILIPPINES
(SIKOLOHIYA SA PILIPINAS)
refers to a series of
events related to
the field of
psychology in the
Philippines
PSYCHOLOGY
OF FILIPINOS
(SIKOLOHIYA NG MGA PILIPINO)
refers to any
theories or
knowledge of
Filipino nature
regardless of source
FILIPINO
PSYCHOLOGY
(SIKOLOHIYANG PILIPINO)
refers to a psychology based
on the Filipino’s true
thoughts, feelings, behaviors
and must derive from
indigenous Filipino sources,
language, and methods.
As part of the
indigenous psychology
tradition, sikolohiyang
Pilipino is built on
psychological
knowledge that (Sinha,
1997):
(a) arose from
within the culture;
(b) reflects local
behaviors;
(c) can be
interpreted within
a local frame of
reference; and
(d) yields results
that are locally
relevant
Two Processes of Filipino Psychology
Indigenization-from-without
Cultural Validation
Indigenization-from-within
Cultural Revalidation