Product Description
Community psychology – South African praxis
Authors: M Visser, J Akhurst, R Carolissen, N Matamela
Format: Physical Hardcopy
Community psychology is an applied branch of psychology that places emphasis on understanding people in their own context, and promoting their health and wellbeing within this context. It is particularly relevant in the quest to empower people to address psychosocial problems through community development. Community psychology focuses on how theories and research are used to inform practice in South Africa.
Community psychology applies theories relevant to the study of people in South Africa's diverse multicultural environment, delving deeper into the psychosocial problems of violence and crime, poverty and unemployment, racism and xenophobia, gender-based violence/gender equity, masculinities, community trauma, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, child and adolescent mental health and the elderly in the community. It develops a new perspective on interpretation of communities, resulting in meaningful engagement which can lead to real social change.
Contents:
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CHAPTER 1 Community Psychology
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SECTION 1 CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES
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CHAPTER 2 System Theory in Community Psychology
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CHAPTER 3 Social constructionism: discourses and community narratives
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CHAPTER 4 Critical social theory traditions in Community Psychology
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CHAPTER 5 African-centred Community Psychology
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CHAPTER 6 Decolonising (Community) Psychology
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SECTION 2 RESEARCH STRATEGIES
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CHAPTER 7 (Participatory) action research
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CHAPTER 8 Research-as-social-change: activating the transformative potential of research in Community Psychology
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CHAPTER 9 Implementation science
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CHAPTER 10 Community social impact assessment
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SECTION 3 COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS
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CHAPTER 11 Mental health services in communities in South Africa
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CHAPTER 12 Prevention, promotion and empowerment
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CHAPTER 13 Promoting community wellbeing at personal, relational and collective levels: a positive psychology perspective
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CHAPTER 14 Peer support groups as community interventions
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CHAPTER 15 Community mobilisation and social change
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SECTION 4 CHALLENGING COMMUNITY ISSUES
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CHAPTER 16 HIV/AIDS and community interventions
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CHAPTER 17 Substance abuse
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CHAPTER 18 Violence and crime
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CHAPTER 19 Gender-based violence and community wellbeing
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CHAPTER 20 Masculinities: new South African men
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CHAPTER 21 Poverty, unemployment and homelessness
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CHAPTER 22 Racism and xenophobia in South Africa: psychological sequalae
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CHAPTER 23 Community trauma
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CHAPTER 24 Child and adolescent mental health: an ecological perspective
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