Overview
Documents the radical changes occurring in the fields of critical community and clinical psychology
Demonstrates how to integrate critical theory with psychological practice
Offers a cutting-edge resource to researchers and scholars in the fields of social policy, psychology and allied health fields
Examines social justice in the field of mental wellbeing
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- social justice
- mental health services
- therapy
- wellbeing
- human rights
- creativity studies
- political activism in psychology
- community transformation
- Public Health
- Psychologists for Social Change
- Political Psychology
- critical community psychology
- decolonial praxes
- social work
- social inclusion
- liberation psychology
About this book
Using examples of scholar, activist and practitioner work from around the world, this collection explores and documents those practices where the traditional remits of community and clinical psychology have been subverted, altered, stretched, changed and reworked in order to reframe practice around human rights, creativity, political activism, social change, space and place, systemic violence, community transformation, resource allocation and radical practices of disruption and direct action.
Reviews
“This book will be essential reading for all those who want to put into practice community psychological ideas and who want to work differently to enhance social and psychological wellbeing. It gives us hope that other ways of working to build better worlds are possible.”
(Carolyn Kagan, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
“If you are looking for inspiration about how psychology can be used to address structural inequalities and injustices, then this book is for you. You will not find here the kind of psychology that favours quantification and experiment; traditional psychology and mental health practice are seen as too often colluding with and failing to ameliorate distress and disadvantage. What you will discover are many examples of creative ideas and ways of collaborating with community groups drawn from around the world, including from African and Asian countries. At the same time, chapter authors do not flinch from acknowledging and reflecting on the struggles and challenges involved in practising psychology in this new way.”
(Jim Orford, Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology, the University of Birmingham, England)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carl Walker is a community psychologist at the University of Brighton and a borough councillor in Worthing, UK. He is on the British Psychological Society's Community Psychology section committee.
Sally Zlotowitz is a clinical and community psychologist working in various roles including as Director of Public Health and Prevention at MAC-UK. She is past chair of the British Psychological Society's Community Psychology section and a co-founder of Psychologists for Social Change.
Anna Zoli is a senior lecturer in Psychology, and course leader of the MA Community Psychology at the University of Brighton, UK. She is on the British Psychological Society's Community Psychology section committee, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Innovative Community and Clinical Psychologies
Editors: Carl Walker, Sally Zlotowitz, Anna Zoli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71190-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71189-4Published: 02 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71192-4Published: 03 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71190-0Published: 01 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 675
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Critical Psychology, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development