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020 $a9781405188845 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aRA790.55$b.C75 2011
060 00 $a2011 F-558
060 10 $aWM 30
082 00 $a362.196/89$222
245 00 $aCritical community psychology /$cCarolyn Kagan ... [et al.].
260 $aChichester, West Sussex :$bBPS Blackwell/John Wiley,$c2011.
300 $axiii, 379 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.) ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aBPS textbooks in psychology
520 $aInterest 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. Clear learning objectives and chapter contents outlined at the start of each chapter. Key terms highlighted with definitions, either as marginal notes or in chapter glossaries. Case examples of community psychology in action. Each chapter ends with a critical assessment section. Discussion points and ideas for exercises that can be undertaken by the reader, in order to extend critical understanding. Lists of further resources -- e.g. reading, film, electronic. Authors are members of the largest community psychology departmental team in Europe"--Provided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Critical community psychology in Manchester -- What is critical community psychlology? -- Core elements of a critical community psychology -- The contested nature of community -- Community as social ties -- Problem definition -- Action planning -- Action 1: furtherance of critical consciousness and creation of new forms of social settings -- Action 2: Development of alliances, and accompaniment, advocacy and analysis of policy -- Evaluation -- Change, influence and power -- Roles, skills and reflections on learning for community psychologists -- Critical disruption: Does critical community psychology have an adequate praxis?
650 0 $aCommunity psychology$zEngland$zManchester.
650 0 $aCritical care medicine$zEngland$zManchester.
650 12 $aCommunity Mental Health Services$xmethods$zEngland.
650 22 $aCommunity Psychiatry$zEngland.
650 22 $aCritical Care$xmethods$zEngland.
700 1 $aKagan, Carolyn.
710 2 $aBritish Psychological Society.
830 0 $aBPS textbooks in psychology.