Critical Community Psychology

Name: Critical Community Psychology
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138364059
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Critical Action and Social Change

By Mark Burton and Rebecca Lawthom and Carolyn Kagan and Paul Duckett and Asiya Siddiquee

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Critical Community Psychology offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of practical issues in psychological work within diverse community settings. This thoroughly updated edition addresses contemporary topics such as decolonial approaches, migration, social justice, and environmental crises. It includes new material on archive research, data handling, policy analysis, and development, reflecting community psychology's evolving global context. Organised around themes of thinking, acting, and reflecting, the book features case studies, reflective examples, and exercises to deepen understanding.
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This book is ideal for students and practitioners in community, social, and clinical psychology, social work, community practice, and related applied professions seeking a practical and theoretically informed guide to community psychological work.

This accessible textbook provides an overview of theoretical and practical issues around psychological work in a range of community settings. This is the ideal resource for students of different community based professions, working in a range of applied settings, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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This accessible textbook draws upon progressions in academic, political and global arenas, to provide a comprehensive overview of practical issues in psychological work across a diverse range of community settings.

Interest in community psychology, and its potential as a distinctive approach, is growing and evolving in parallel with societal and policy changes. Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Critical Community Psychology covers crucial issues including decolonial approaches, migration, social justice, and the environmental crisis. It has a new chapter on archive research, working with data, policy analysis and development, to reflect the continuously developing global nature of community psychology. 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 order to extend critical understanding

Aiming to provide readers with not only the theories, values and principles of community psychology, but also with the practical guidance that will underpin their community psychological work, this is the ideal resource for any student of community, social, and clinical psychology, social work, community practice, and people working in community-based professions and applied settings.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138364059

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 42 Tables, black and white; 44 Line drawings, color; 4 Halftones, color

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1010g

Pages: 458

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Asiya Siddiquee Carolyn Kagan Education & Reference Mark Burton Non-Fiction Paul Duckett Philosophy & Psychology Rebecca Lawthom

About the Author

Carolyn Kagan is a Professor Emerita Community Social Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having retired from the university she now works as a scholar activist on local participation and community development projects and on climate/economic/social justice policies at the regional level, through the collective, Steady State Manchester. @CarolynKagan

Mark Burton is a scholar-activist, working on a variety of environmental, economic and political issues. Among other activity he is part of the Steady State Manchester collective which explores and promotes a post-growth approach to economy and society in the city-regional context. For many years he worked as a psychologist and manager in health and social care services. @MarkHBurton

Paul Duckett is an academic community psychologist at Central Queensland University, Australia. He works in the fields of disability and mental health and has worked alongside disabled people including people with mental health difficulties and people with learning difficulties since 1988. He has a YouTube channel where he posts videos on topics and issues relevant to Critical Community Psychology – just search for Paul Duckett.

Rebecca Lawthom is Professor of Community Psychology in the Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care at Manchester Metropolitan University. She co-directs the Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre entitled Health, Psychology and Communities. Her research embraces creative, participatory methods. @rebeccalawthom

Asiya Siddiquee is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research has centred around wellbeing in various contexts - digital technologies, refugee women and arts for health. Working with mixed methods research, her future aspirations are to explore issues regarding equality, social justice and cultural diversity.