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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Critical Psychology"”.
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Judicial and Political Decisions from a Critical Psychology Perspective
Judicial and Political Decisions from a Critical Psychology Perspective Kristine Arnet Connidis Doctor of Juridical Science Faculty of Law University of Toronto 2015 ABSTRACT I examine conflicting judicial and political decisions from the critical psychology perspective of Jung's theory of …
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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 …
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Pandemic racism: describing and delegitimising discursive necropolitics on Africa in Danish mainstream media during COVID-19
This is an interdisciplinary study that combines critical psychology with necropolitics, feminist, queer and crip theory, as well as linguistics through discourse theory and media studies through analysis of news articles to examine how everyday discourse contributes to practices of violence that …
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'Mad, bad and dangerous to know': exploring the everyday spaces of older, mental health service users
… crosses many disciplines including; psychiatry, critical psychiatry, psychology, critical psychology, history, politics, economics, philosophy, sociology, culture and human geographies (Thrift, 2006). Consequently, there are a complex set of issues to consider when discussing the experiences of …
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Settler school psychologists readiness to decolonize practice
… school psychologist as a means of challenging psychology’s perception of itself as an “objective” science. Decolonization theory is explored from a variety of perspectives beginning with the work of Frantz Fanon (1961/2021). A variety of critical frames, including critical psychology, Critical …
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Dialogical Selves: Exploring “Sameness and Difference” in “Queer” Identification
“The LGBTQIA+ community”, like all social groupings, is moulded by dialectical forces: inclusivity/exclusivity, belonging/non-belonging, sameness/difference. Literature on it is riddled with dichotomous conflicts over (dis)identification and (anti)relationality in theory, lived experiences, and …
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Going Viral: A Critical, Post-Structural Exploration of Feminist Culture Jamming As Cultural Therapeutic
Using a discursive framework informed by critical theory and post-structural philosophy (particularly via the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler), this dissertation proposes the existence of pathology at both individual and cultural levels. Shifting away from the language of social …
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Decolonizing Psychic Space: Remembering the Indigenous Psychology Movement in Taiwan
… of the historical struggle of the indigenous psychology movement in Taiwan. It turns a critical gaze back upon the movement itself in order to decolonize it from colonial cultural imaginary. The contribution of this project is two-fold. First, on the theoretical level, it introduces a critical …
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"Frontline in Mental Healthcare": A Discourse Analytic Clinical Ethnography of Crisis Intervention Team Trainings for Corrections
… trauma and hardship.</p> <p>This study is a critical contribution to the national conversation on mental health focused prison reform, providing ethnographic data on CIT trainings and their reception by participants that challenges the “new asylum” political consensus.</p>
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The Social Construction of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)
<p>The creation of psychiatric diagnoses, otherwise known as psychiatric nosology, is a complex endeavor, one involving a great deal of social construction. One diagnosis in particular, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), exemplifies the different factors that go into the creation of …
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Subjekt und Handlungsfähigkeit : ein Versuch der Verknüpfung des Entfremdungsbegriffs mit der Subjektwissenschaft Kritischer Psychologie
Der vorliegende Text befasst sich heuristisch mit der Frage der Integration des Entfremdungsbegriffs der Kritischen Theorie in die Subjektwissenschaft, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der subjektwissenschaftlichen Lerntheorie Klaus Holzkamps als Vertreter der Kritischen Psychologie. Ausgangspunkt …
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Mothering and mental illness: an ethnography of attachment in an institutional context.
… psychiatric practice. This resulted in a more critical understanding of the interplay of psychiatric and attachment treatments offered in this context, and the consequences of such an approach. Oliveto's psychiatric practice followed a medical model for treatment of symptoms of mental illness. …
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Psychosocial interventions in emergencies: theoretical models and their ethical and political implications in the Venezuelan context. The case of UNICEF.
This dissertation presents an analysis of the models of psychosocial processes structuring UNICEF’s psychosocial intervention after the emergency caused by the floods in Venezuela during 1999, and some of their political and ethical implications. I discuss how UNICEF’s intervention in the shelter …
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Beyond the polarising constructions of terrorism : Challenging the discourses that silence public debate in Western Australia
… positioning and identity development. Within a Critical Discursive Psychological framework (see Wetherell, 1998), terrorism is understood as an ontologically unstable and discursively constructed social category. As such the current study explored the various discursive constructions of …
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Analphabetismus und Teilhabe
Aus bildungstheoretisch-gesellschaftskritischer Perspektive stellt sich Lernen als soziales Handeln in gesellschaftlich-vermittelten Verhältnissen – Möglichkeiten wie auch Begrenzungen – dar. Funktionaler Analphabetismus ist mit einem bundesweiten Anteil von 14% der erwerbsfähigen Bevölkerung oder …
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The Title
… seeks to address and redress clinical psychology’s disciplinary silence around the title of ‘Doctor’ and attempts to uncover possible meanings gathering around it by following several angles of disclosure: The self-disclosure angle recounts my own resistances and attempts at coming to …
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Das Widerspenstige bändigen
Dem Handeln von Lehrkräften wird in der schulischen Praxis wie in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur ein wesentlicher Einfluss auf die Qualität von schulischem Unterricht zugesprochen. Auch wenn umfangreiche normative Vorstellungen über ein gutes Lehr-Handeln bestehen, so gibt es wenig Erkenntnis …