Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change

Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change.

List of contents

1 Background.- 2 The Structure of a Nested Framework.- 3 Psychology's Nested Frameworks.- 4 The Ethnic Validity of People's Lives.- 5 Individual Psychosocial Competence.- 6 Psychosocial Leaps and Spirals.- 7 Autonomy and Relatedness.- 8 Resource Generation and Interchange.- 9 Belief Systems.- 10 Pathology and Competence.- 11 Elitism, Racism, and Professionalism.- 12 Violence.- 13 Interventions: An Evaluative Matrix.- 14 Choosing and Evaluating Approaches to Change.- 15 Prospects and Challenges.- References.

Summary

Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change.

Product details

• Authors: Forrest B Tyler, Forrest B. Tyler
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780306464973
• ISBN: 978-0-306-46497-3
• No. of pages: 481
• Weight: 880 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 481 p.
• Series: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; C, Clinical psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Community Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, cross-cultural psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Difference (Psychology), Ethnopsychology, autonomy;culture;intervention;prevention;psychology