Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Mustakova-Possardt, Elena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Lyubansky, Mikhail (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Basseches, Michael (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Oxenberg, Julie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Σειρά: International and Cultural Psychology,
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Political science.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Political Science.

The progression is a logical one: in keeping with an era noted for advances toward greater equality and an irreversible trend toward globalization--but also marked with bigotry, persecution, and environmental destruction-- psychology has developed the potential to heal large populations as well as i...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part I: Central dimensions of rethinking a socially responsible psychology for a global era
• Focusing psychology on the global challenge: Achieving a sustainable future
• Psychology, Culture and a Global Perspective
• Key Global Documents that Provide the Ethical Underpinnings and Guiding Moral Vision for This Volume
• A Vision of Psychology in an Explicit Normative Context.-  Toward a Psychological Science of Globalization, A Global Community Psychology
• Transforming a limited social function into a viable global action agenda
• A Historical Perspective
• Guiding Prevalent Assumptions and Contemporary Psychology
• Psychological Impact of Prevailing and Unexamined Guiding Assumptions
• Beyond Prevailing Assumptions: Developing a Global Action Agenda
• Practices of Psychological Inquiry: The Global Challenge
• From Empiricist Foundations to Social Epistemology
• Socially Responsible Inquiry
• Psychology and Global Impact: A Collective Delusion?
• In Conclusion: Recommendations
• Toward socially responsible clinical practice suited to the needs of global community
• Global Community Psychology: Becoming Counselors of the World
• Central Values and Priorities Underlying Current Western Clinical Training and Practice
• Morality, Moral Relativism, and Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy and the Cost of War
• Tension Between Current Clinical Values and Priorities and the Core Values Articulated in the UDHR and the Earth Charter
• Some Recent Developments Toward Global Maturity in Clinical Practice
• Systemic and Policy Shifts Needed to Enhance Social and Global Responsibility in Clinical Practice
• Conclusion and Recommendations
• Toward Social Health for a Global Community.-Parallel Global Processes: Fragmentation of Human Consciousness and Society, and Global Unification Around Issues of Social Justice
• Early Understanding of Social Health
• First Systemic Approach to Social Health: Erich Fromm
• Toward a Complex Systems Approach to Social Health
• The Need for Balance of Love, Reason, and Faith in Human Affairs
• Emerging Possible Early Definition of Social Health
• Social Health As A Process of Unity in Diversity
• Summary and Conclusions
• Toward Cultivating Socially Responsible Global Consciousness
• Developmental Reconstructions of Self-Identity
• Consciousness as a Focal Point of Psychological Study
• Centrality of Moral Character and Choice in Development
• Further Role for Psychology and Psychologists in Promoting the Growth and Transformation of Consciousness
• Part II: Pressing Global Issues
• Toward a Psychology of Nonviolence
• Definitions
• Ontological Assumptions
• Effectiveness vs. Fruitfulness of Nonviolent Civil Resistance
• Psychology and the Military
• A Conceptual Framework
• Future Psychological Directions
• Toward Racial Justice
• The Racial Perceptual Divide
• The Racial Reality of Policing Practices
• The Criminal In-Justice System
• Contemporary Racism
• The Sociopolitical Context
• Moving Toward Equity and Justice
• Recommendations
• Overcoming Discrimination, Persecution, and Violence Against Women
• Oppression
• The Relational Self
• Challenging Silence: The Importance of Counter-Narratives to Gender Ideologies
• Conclusions and Further Recommendations
• Poor People, Poor Planet: The Psychology of How We Harm and Heal Hummanity and Earth
• The Role of Psychological Processes in Economic Justice and Socio-Environmental Sustainability
• The Centrality of Poverty in Economic Growth, Environmental Decline, and Community Suffering
• The Moral, Psychological and Environmental Dilemma of Poverty
• Changing the Structures Underlying Poverty and Environmental Harm
• What Psychology Can Do to Deter Our Harmful Ways
• Where There is Psychology is There Hope?
• Processes in the Development of Individual and Collective Consciousness and the Role of Religious and Spiritual Communities
• Socially Responsible Psychology and the Development of Dialectical Thinking
• Social Contexts and Dialectical Praxis
• Socially Responsible Psychology and the Role of Religious and Spiritual Communities
• Spiritual Ethic for Global Governance: Interreligious Efforts
• Toward the Integration of Materialistic and Spiritual Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Praxiologies in the Quest for a Common Foundation.