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Author Macdonald, Healter, author.

Title Cultural and critical explorations in community psychology : the inner city intern / Heather Macdonald.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016].
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Contents Introduction -- The inner city intern, Part I : culture and memory -- The inner city intern, Part II : the moral geography of conduct disorder -- The colonial archive, stereotypes, and the practice of psychological assessment -- Street-corner therapy : identity, space, and community practice -- Levinas in the hood : portable social justice -- The foot fetish : events, reversals, and language in the collaborative assessment process.
Summary This book engages the practice of community-based psychology through a critical lens in order in order to demonstrate that clinical practice and psychological assessment in particular, require more affirmative psychopolitical agency in the face of racial injustice within the urban environment. Macdonald includes examples of clinical case analyses, vignettes and ethnographic descriptions while also drawing upon a cross-fertilization of theoretical ideas and disciplines. An oft neglected element of community psychology is the practice of community informed psychological assessment, especially within the inner city environments. This book uniquely suggests ideas for how clinical practice, in relationship to issues such as race and cultural memory can serve as a substantial vehicle for social justice against the backdrop of a prejudiced criminal justice system and mental health delivery system. .
Subject Community psychology.
Community psychology. (OCoLC)fst00871155
Other Form: Print version: Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan 2016 9781349950379 1349950378 (OCoLC)950952889
ISBN 9781349950386 (electronic bk.)
1349950386 (electronic bk.)
9781349950379
1349950378
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