The fourth edition of this acclaimed textbook provides an in-depth and engaging overview of community psychology, including its theoretical underpinnings and methods for conducting research and promoting change within communities. New to this edition are an increased focus on values, particularly those related to social justice, empowering minority communities, and ecological change. New pedagogical features include additional opening exercises and case examples of complex societal issues, accompanied by discussion questions that encourage self-reflection and critical thinking, and a marginal glossary.
With case examples throughout, this book offers a practical introduction to community outreach and intervention in community psychology.
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This comprehensive handbook, the first in its field, brings together 106 different contributors.
Key features include: Sections and chapters organised around thinking, acting and reflecting Case examples and reflections of community psychology in action Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader, in ...
This edited volume in the Community Psychology Book Series emphasizes applications of community psychology for disrupting dominant and hegemonic power relations.
In this book the authors present additional personal and community narratives and extended examples to enliven their writing.
This book examines the ways in which decolonial theory has gained traction and influenced knowledge production, praxis and epistemic justice in various contemporary iterations of community psychology across the globe.
Community Psychology: Linking Individuals and Communities
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This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology.