Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology The Inner City Intern /

• Main Author: Macdonald, Heather (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Educational psychology.; Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Pedagogic Psychology.; Self and Identity.

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. Macdo...

Table of 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.