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.

Sommario

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Forrest B Tyler, Forrest B. Tyler
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9781441933515
• ISBN: 978-1-4419-3351-5
• Pagine: 481
• Illustrazioni: XVII, 481 p.
• Serie: The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology; The Springer Series in Social/Clinical Psychology
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; 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