Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology The Inner
This book engages the practice of community-based psychology through a critical lens in order in order to demonstrate that clinical practice and psychological assessment in particular, require more affirmative psychopolitical agency in the face of racial
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Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology
Heather Macdonald
Cultural and Critical Explorations in Community Psychology The Inner City Intern
Heather Macdonald Psychology, Lesley University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
ISBN 978-1-349-95037-9 ISBN 978-1-349-95038-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-349-95038-6
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To my mother and father who taught me the importance of language
PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The clinical cases referred to in this volume took place during my predoctoral and post-doctoral years of training, and while I have been careful to protect any client identity or information by changing names, using broad general descriptions, leaving out identifying information or altering narratives, I am in gratitude to the young people who were willing to share their lives with me. These people were important teachers. I have also not mentioned specific locations or agency names to further protect the identities of clients, supervisors, and colleagues unless they had previously published this information. Early in my career and as a result of attending the Existential Phenomenological Psychology master’s program at Seattle University, I decided to focus my expertise on conducting psychological assessment from a more existential perspective that included a cross-fertilization of theories. At the moment, very little theory and research has been developed on how to conduct psychological assessment from a communitybased perspective that utilizes an interdisciplinary approach (Mercer et al., 2016). Thus, the major
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