Isaac Prilleltensky, University of Miami, Miami, U.S.A.

1. Promoting Liberation and Well-being through Social Justice:Towards a Critical Community Psychology • Isaac Prilleltensky, University of Miami, Miami, U.S.A.

2. Overview • COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE’RE GOING • Where We Are • Where We’re Going • CRITICAL COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY: VALUES, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND PRAXIS • Values • Social Justice • Definition and Questions for Social Justice • Working Definition of Social Justice • The Consequences of Social Injustice • Praxis Based on Prilleltensky, I., & Nelson, G. (in press). Community psychology: Advancing social justice. In D. Fox, I. Prilleltensky, & S. Austin (Eds.). Critical psychology: An introduction (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

3. Community Psychology: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

4. Community Psychology: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

5. Community Psychology: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

6. Community Psychology: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

7. Community Psychology: Where We Are and Where We’re Going

8. Critical Community Psychology Carolyn Kagan and Mark Burton’s definition of community psychology captures well what we mean by critical community psychology:  • Community psychology offers a framework for working with those marginalized by the social system that leads to self-aware social change with an emphasis on value-based participatory work and the forging of alliances. It is a way of working that is pragmatic and reflexive, whilst not wedded to any particular orthodoxy of method. As such community psychology is one alternative to the dominant individualistic psychology typically taught and practiced in the higher income countries. It is community psychology because it emphasizes a level of analysis and intervention other than the individual and their immediate interpersonal context. It is community psychology because it is nevertheless concerned with how people feel, think, experience, and act as they work together, resisting oppression and struggling to create a better world. (Burton et al., 2007; 219)  

9. Critical Community Psychology For us, critical community psychology is: • Ecological in nature, recognizing the need to concentrate simultaneously on individuals, relationships, and communities • Value-driven • Guided by the central value of social justice • Praxis-oriented in its efforts to overcome social injustice through social action in partnership with disadvantaged people

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