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Advocates for advancing the understanding current models of clinical practice from a social and historical perspective
Offers a critique of traditional psychological discourse that wires symptoms through pre-established paradigms without questioning how the paradigms themselves perpetuate violence at linguistic or culturally symbolic levels
Explores ideas for specific interventions such as restructuring the mission statements of community-based agencies and offering alternative models of clinical practice and psychological evaluation
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“Addressing key absences in the domains of both psychological assessment and community psychology, Macdonald offers a genuinely pathbreaking series of case studies and vignettes that enable us to re-conceptualize what psychological assessment and community psychology can become. This is a timely book, which, in its foregrounding of affirmative psychopolitical forms of agency, promises to re-energize and reinvigorate the field of a politically-aware community psychology.” (Derek Hook, Associate Professor of Psychology, Duquesne University, USA)
“Dr. Macdonald’s book is a very interesting deconstruction of the colonial discourse as a discourse of power as applied to the European-American psychological assessment tradition. Her book is of great interest for the clinician willing to enhance their cultural competence when practicing psychological assessment; for the scholar interested in social justice and oppression; and for the merely curious looking for an intellectually stimulating book on how assessing people’s minds can be contaminated by biases and prejudices in the evaluator’s own mind.” (Nicolae Dumitrascu, Clinical Testing Coordinator, Jesse Danielsen Institute, Boston University, USA)
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Book Title: Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology
Book Subtitle: The Inner City Intern
Authors: Heather Macdonald
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95038-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95037-9Published: 12 November 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95712-5Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95038-6Published: 11 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 154
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Pedagogic Psychology, Self and Identity