Critical Community Psychology
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke, UK
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781405188845
Description: Interest in community psychology, and its potential has grown in parallel with changes in welfare and governmental priorities. Critical Community Psychology provide students of different community based professions, working in a range of applied settings, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with a text which will underpin their community psychological work.
Table of contents: title: 1 Introduction 1; title: Critical community psychology in Manchester 2; title: Why Manchester? 3; title: Learning through action and action through learning 5; title: Action learning 7; title: Action research 7; title: Language, discourse and representation 9; title: What do we mean by ‘critical'? 12; title: Orientation to the book 13; title: PART I: THINK! 15; title: 2 What is critical community psychology? 17; title: The nature and origins of community psychology 18; title: Definitions 21; title: The emergence of community psychology in different parts; title: of the world 24; title: Key themes in critical community psychology 28; title: From prevention to liberation 29; title: Global trends and critical community psychology 30; title: Think global, act local? 32; title: Localism as a philosophy 32; title: Sharing experiences, strategies and programmes 33; title: Being part of a wider movement 33; title: The role of social movements 34; title: Social justice and a just society 35; title: Core values underpinning a critical community; title: psychology 36; title: Social justice 37; title: Stewardship 38; title: Community 38; title: Conclusion 39; title: 3 Core elements of a critical community psychology 41; title: Elements of critical community psychology 42; title: The ecological metaphor 42; title: Adaptation 44; title: Cycling of resources 44; title: Interdependence 44; title: Succession 44; title: Unintended consequences 45; title: Non-linearity 45; title: Fields and edges 46; title: Nesting 46; title: Ecological design 47; title: The systems perspective 47; title: Multiple levels of analysis 48; title: The person-in-context 49; title: An ontology of individual and society 50; title: The person-situation formula 50; title: Person-situation level elements of analysis 51; title: Role-rule contexts 51; title: Group dynamics 52; title: Leadership 53; title: Community-society level elements of analysis 54; title: Society and the individual 55; title: Facing the nature of oppression and liberation, immersion in the lived; title: experiences of people oppressed by the social system 56; title: A dialectical relationship between people and systems:; title: conscientisation 58; title: Working together 59; title: Interdisciplinarity 59; title: Agency, power and collective action 59; title: Participation 59; title: Prefigurative action 60; title: Core principles underlying a critical community psychology 62; title: Diversity 62; title: Innovation 62; title: Liberation 63; title: Commitment 63; title: Critical reflection 63; title: Humility 63; title: Conclusions 67; title: 4 The contested nature of community 69; title: What is community? 71; title: Theory descriptions of community 73; title: Dimensions of community: Sentiment, social structure and space 74; title: Sentiment 74; title: Psychological sense of community 75; title: The cultural and symbolic sense of community 76; title: Space 79; title: Social structure 81; title: Multi-dimensional communities 83; title: Power and community 84; title: Social exclusion 85; title: Conclusions 87; title: 5 Community as social ties 89; title: Social ties 90; title: Affection 91; title: Interdependence 91; title: Coercion 92; title: Theory prescriptions for community 93; title: Ties of affection and co-operation: Community as social capital 94; title: Ties of coercion: Community as ghetto 98; title: The ghetto walls 100; title: Social boundaries: benign or benevolent? 102; title: Community and social policy 103; title: Nature of participation 104; title: Conclusion 110; title: Critical disruption of Think! 111; title: Critically disrupting the challenge to individualism 111; title: Critically disrupting our history of community psychology 113; title: Resources for Part One 117; title: PART II: ACT! 121; title: 6 Problem definition 123; title: Social issues 125; title: Need 126; title: Positionality and problem definition 130; title: Whose need? 131; title: Getting to know the community 132; title: Community audit 132; title: Community profiling 133; title: Use of statistics 137; title: Observation 137; title: Community walks 138; title: Making contact and gaining entry in the community 139; title: Problem situations as human systems 141; title: Stakeholders and stakeholder analyses 151; title: Conclusion 153; title: 7 Action planning 155; title: Decision making 156; title: Stakeholder analysis and action planning 160; title: Boundary critique: towards value-based decision making 161; title: Fourth generation evaluation 168; title: Participatory appraisal of needs and development of action 169; title: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats 170; title: Force fi eld analysis 171; title: Option appraisal 174; title: Compromise 175; title: Visioning 176; title: Mixing methods 178; title: Complex decision making: Polarity management 179; title: 8 Action 1: furtherance of critical consciousness and creation; title: of new forms of social settings 183; title: Action for change 184; title: Strategies of critical community psychological action 186; title: Furtherance of critical consciousness (conscientisation) 186; title: Problematisation 188; title: Experiential learning 191; title: ‘Capacitation' 195; title: Deideologisation 197; title: Creation of new forms of social relations and settings 198; title: Multi-dimensional nature of social situations 198; title: Behaviour settings 200; title: New or alternative social settings 202; title: The radical nature of alternative social settings 206; title: 9 Action 2: Development of alliances, and accompaniment,; title: advocacy and analysis of policy 209; title: Making links, the development of alliances and counter systems 210; title: Processes of making links and working together 210; title: Communities of interest or communities of practice 213; title: Alliances and coalitions 213; title: Partnerships 216; title: Working at the ecological edge 217; title: Alliances, new social settings and connecting with social movements 222; title: Accompaniment, advocacy and analysis of policy 224; title: Accompaniment 224; title: Skills needed for accompaniment 227; title: Knowledge and accompaniment 228; title: Advocacy 228; title: Analysis of policy 234; title: Policy implementation 236; title: Policy analysis 237; title: Conclusions 240; title: Critical disruption of Act! 241; title: Chronic uncertainty 242; title: Work ethic 243; title: Resources for Part Two 245; title: PART III: REFLECT! 249; title: 10 Evaluation 251; title: Purpose of evaluation 252; title: Principles of evaluation 253; title: Evaluation frameworks 255; title: Politics of evaluation 256; title: What is to be evaluated? 261; title: ‘Theory of change' perspectives on evaluation 262; title: Realistic or realist perspectives on evaluation 263; title: Capacity building for evaluation 268; title: Participation and evaluation 270; title: Participation and empowerment in evaluation 271; title: Resistance to involvement as a barrier to participation; title: in evaluation 274; title: Skills for evaluation 276; title: Conclusions 278; title: 11 Change, influence and power 279; title: The nature of social change 280; title: Incremental or radical change 283; title: Linear and non-linear change 284; title: Stage approaches to change 285; title: Strategic change 286; title: Resistance to change 287; title: Action research as change 290; title: Social movements, power and ideology 291; title: Social influence 292; title: Social change tactics 294; title: Social power, powerlessness and empowerment 294; title: Taxonomy of power 295; title: The social structure of social power 298; title: Power analysis 300; title: 12 Roles, skills and reflections on learning; title: for community psychologists 303; title: Roles for facilitating change 304; title: Facilitation roles 304; title: Educational roles 304; title: Representational roles 305; title: Technical roles 306; title: Skills for facilitating change 307; title: Interpersonal communication skills 308; title: Social problem solving skills 308; title: Organisation skills 309; title: Research skills 309; title: The context of community psychological action 310; title: Reflexivity as part of practice 314; title: Constraints on working as a community psychologist; title: and spaces for resistance 316; title: Ethical issues 319; title: Risk 320; title: Power (again) 322; title: Prefigurative learning 323; title: The case for and against community psychology 323; title: Community psychology as oppression or liberation 325; title: Conclusion 327; title: Critical disruption of Reflect! 329; title: Evaluation and the audit culture 329; title: Auditing skills 331; title: Critical disruption of critical reflection 333; title: Resources for Part Three 335; title: 13 Critical disruption: Does critical community psychology; title: have an adequate praxis? 337; title: A new context: extreme and globalised oppression 340; title: Rethinking the amelioration-transformation distinction 341; title: References 343; title: Index 369