Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology

The Inner City Intern

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

AvHeather Macdonald,Heather MacDonald

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-11-12
Mått148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt338 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor154
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781349950379

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Heather Macdonald is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Lesley University, USA. She came to academia after years of practice as a clinical psychologist whose work involved community outreach, child assessment, and individual therapeutic services to children and families in the foster care system and the juvenile justice system. Dr. Macdonald’s work in the inner cities and abroad has led to scholarly research on the interface between culture, social justice, relational ethics, clinical practice and post-colonial thought.

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.