Psychosocial Responses to Sociopolitical Targeting, Oppression - Challenges for Helping Professionals

This book will prepare social workers, psychologists and counsellors for psychosocial work with individuals and groups who are experiencing distress and trauma resulting from historical and current sociopolitical oppression and violence.

List of contents

1.Psychosocial Responses to Sociopolitical Targeting, Oppression and Violence: Challenges for Helping Professionals. 2.Historical and Collective Trauma and their Consequences. 3.Collective, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Consequences of Structural Oppression. 4.Violence. 5.Liberatory, Decolonial Psychosocial Capacity Building: Guiding Ethical Principles. 6.Liberatory, Decolonizing Psychosocial Capacity Building: A Framework for Collaboration. 7.Responding to Critical Psychosocial Needs. 8.Collective Resilience While Facing Oppression. 9.Psychosocial Support for Immigrants and Refugees. 10.Collective and Individual Self-Care and Critical Awareness.

About the author

Joshua L. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Smith College, United States. He is co-author of Racism in the United States: Implications for the helping professions (3rd ed.) 2021, NY: Springer Publishing, and author of Psychosocial capacity building in response to disasters 2012, NY: Columbia University Press.

Summary

This book will prepare social workers, psychologists and counsellors for psychosocial work with individuals and groups who are experiencing distress and trauma resulting from historical and current sociopolitical oppression and violence.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua L. Miller, Miller Joshua L.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367897901
• ISBN: 978-0-367-89790-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social groups, Psychotherapy, Social counselling and advice services, Counselling & Advice Services, Social groups, communities and identities