Social Work and the Psychosocial Journey Out of Far-Right Extremism

Over the last 30 years, domestic far-right extremism has risen to become the greatest threat to peace and safety in the United States. In the last few years alone, racialized, minoritized, and marginalized individuals and communities have been forced to feel the pain and experience the consequences of domestic far-right terrorism.

List of contents

1.The Threat of Far-Right Extremism: A Call for Social Work Intervention. 2.Roots of Hate: The Persistent Grip of White Supremacy and its Weaponization. 3.Radicalization, Disengagement, and De-Radicalization. 4.The U.S. Response to Domestic Extremism. 5.Researching White Supremacist and Nationalist Extremism. 6.The Psychosocial Journey Out of Far-Right Extremism. 7.Putting it all Together.

About the author

Danny W. Carroll II, PhD, MSW, is the BSW Program Director at Whatcom College and Executive Director of the Center for Extremism Prevention and Intervention. His primary research interests are white supremacy, anti-racist social work practice, race-based trauma and traumatic stress, and the role social work can play in responding to far-right extremism.

Product details

• Authors: Danny W. Carroll II
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032813325
• ISBN: 978-1-032-81332-5
• No. of pages: 190
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Skills for Social Work Practice
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Medicine, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social Work, Medicine and Nursing