Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: C Kagan Издательство: Страниц: 352 ISBN: 9781405188845
Описание
Community Psychology is developing in the UK after a much longer history elsewhere in Europe, North and Latin America and Australasia, although principles and methods of community psychology have been used in UK social work, community and youth work, community development and community education. Interest in community psychology, and its potential as a distinct approach in the UK has grown in parallel with changes in welfare and governmental priorities. The contemporary emphasis on the importance of community; understanding social exclusion, and working towards social inclusion; stakeholder interests in social change and ‘bottom up’ or participatory ways of working; the development of social capital and community participation; urban regeneration, and citizenship, for example, all coincide with the particular emphases within community psychology of understanding marginalised human behaviour and experience within different social contexts and of working in partnership with those...
