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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"Community Psychology"”.
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Adult environmental education : a community psychology perspective
… (AR) approach to develop and test a model of community adult EE drawn from empowerment theory and practice, and health promotion in particular. Participants in two locations in Melbourne, Australia, engaged in skills training in peer leadership, grassroots group development, advocacy, and AR. …
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The language of community psychology : South African Terminology
This study is about language in psychology. As its central theme, it [study] advocates the cen-trality of language in psychology in general and particularly in community psychology. The study seeks to demonstrate that language is not only a tool for social construction of reality and social …
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An evaluation of a Newspaper advice column as a community Psychology Resource
This thesis has been concerned with community psychology and in particular, the promotion of the newspaper advice column as a community psychology resource. Throughout the world, advice columns provide help and information in thousands of languages reaching millions of people. This resource is …
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"The baby will grow" : a poststructuralist and psychodynamic analysis of a community psychology intervention
… psychologists have recognised the need for community approaches in South Africa which maximise access to psychological intervention and which value politically aware psychological practice. Few extended analyses of such interventions exist in the literature, and community psychology has been …
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The role of the psychologist in South African society : in search of an appropriate community psychology
… study was to make suggestions for an appropriate community psychology practice in South Africa, and to explore the implications for the training of psychologists within this context. In order to develop these proposals an understanding of the South African social context and the location of …
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Whom do we study: An analysis of diversity in the community psychology literature from 1973 to 2007
… the historical inclusion of diversity within community psychology. While community psychology has long held greater inclusion of diversity and the promotion of marginalized and disenfranchised peoples as goals of the field, many have questioned its ability live up to this aspiration. This …
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The development, implementation and evaluation of a training programme in rape crisis intervention for lay therapists : a community psychology approach
… framework was developed in the context of community psychology for the development of a training programme in rape crisis intervention for lay therapists who were members of the Rape Crisis Organisation in Cape Town, South Africa. This framework was structured around the use of lay …
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Passionate about social change: an IPA study exploring the experiences of young people engaged in community action.
… difficulties, there is a shift in favour towards community psychology interventions which work at multiple levels to improve well-being and to challenge the status quo, addressing the systemic and social conditions which contribute to psychological problems occurring. Following a systematic …
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"You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.": Exploring the view of practitioners from a local authority educational psychology service, of a socio-political approach within UK educational psychology.
… (EPs) views of socio-political or critical community psychology (CCP) focuses on single-issue aspects of oppression such as sexuality or racism. Some research examined EPs’ views of psychology from a broader ideological perspective, examining individualism, neo-liberal austerity, colonialist …
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Development and evaluation of psychological services from Empangeni Hospital
From the beginning community psychology was concerned with social change, particularly in those systems of society where psychologists were active participants in the process of community empowerment. This study was an on-going attempt of community psychology to give psychology away to the people, …
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Agency and Communion in the Conceptualization of Empowerment
… meta-concepts of agency and communion and the community psychology discourse on empowerment. Respondent experiences of collective strength or power within their communities are conceptualized in terms of a circle or field that both includes and extends beyond the individual. Implications for …
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Politics and emotion in work with disadvantaged children : case studies in consultation from a South African clinic
… is usually informed by the broad principles of community psychology and carries a concern with the broader political context of mental health. Typically, however, this approach gives less consideration to the emotional dynamics of this kind of community work and the subtle forms in which they …
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African youth constructions of safety: A multi-country photovoice study
… processes. Aligned with the tenets of critical psychology, liberatory psychology, and decolonial community psychology, as well as positive youth development and social justice approaches, I represent youth in the study as competent and conscious social and epistemic agents, challenging the view …
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Issues of disclosure in relation to HIV and AIDS
… whether broad-based initiatives, such as community based stigma reduction intervention programmes (later) based on the findings of the study, could have an impact on the uptake of HIV-testing and disclosure rate. The total sample comprised of 15 females and 15 males that were chosen from …
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An examination of the role of the regional psychologists in the Western Cape Province
… to theoretical development in the field of community psychology and the concomitant search for appropriate roles. The restructuring of the health services following democratic elections in 1994 and resultant policy development have resulted in the development of regional and district health …
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The consultation relationship as a complex partnership: experiences of psychological consultation in Atlantis
Community psychology has as its fundamental aim the wish to make mental health care more accessible, applicable and practicable to a greater number of people. In the South African context with its history of the inequitable distribution of mental health services and the shortage in resources to …
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"I wish that he hit me" : the experiences of people who have psychoemotionally abused others
… This research implemented a critical community psychology framework to address them together under the notion of psychoemotional abuse and develop a conceptual model that was grounded in 20 participants’ experiences of perpetrating and receiving various forms of psychoemotional abuse. …
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The Perceived Community Engagement Survey: Structure, Reliability, and Validity of a Community-based Organization Measure of Engagement with the Broader Community
<p>For more than 40 years government funding for community non-profit organizations has grown more than in previous decades. This dramatic increase has led to a proliferation of organizations that claim the status of community-based organizations. Community-based Organizations (CBOs) have become …
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Assessing the Risk, Addressing the Need: A Mixed Method Approach to Designing a Strengths-Based, Post-incarceration, Correctional Assessment for Women
… sequential mixed method approach rooted in community psychology values that: 1) Effectively assesses post-release risk levels to identify needs and link individuals to appropriate services as part of reentry and supervision plans, 2) Produce outcomes that target the unique needs of women …
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"How Do We Make that Change?" Analysis of Transformative Dialogue in a Community Initiative
… in light of research and theories within community psychology, which have both argued for the significance of civic engagement for social change, and documented its decline in recent years. Despite this, review of literature addressing transformative learning and civic engagement point to …
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