Community Psychology - Science topic

To investigate how young adults in Pakistan perceive fetishism and its impact on relationships. A qualitative descriptive study was conducted among 200 young adults in Pakistan Sample size was determined using G*Power analysis to ensure adequate representation, structured questionnaires were designed based on a preliminary qualitative study. Findin...

Socioecological models are commonly used by researchers, practitioners, and educators in mental health because these models acknowledge the environmental influences of well-being and help to inform the development of multipronged intervention strategies. However, their versatility and variety of uses in mental health and community psychology have p...

Sea level rise affects the long-term psychological health of coastal communities. However, research on long-term and seasonal impacts on vulnerable communities’ psychological health is limited. Here, we explore the effect of sea-level rise on the psychological health of the coastal population in Satkhira and Khulna districts of southwest Bangladesh...

Latin American Community Psychology has a strong perspective focused on participatory processes, awareness-raising and community mobilization and can be seen as a decolonial form of action. Despite the advances in this form of action against oppression in Latin American societies, we have observed that the importance of the influence of indigenous...

There have been multiple calls to examine the links between climate change and migration across different fields. This article reviews climate-related migration from a socio-psychological perspective. It examines the topics covered in existing literature, the geographical distribution of studies, and the theoretical and methodological frameworks ad...

Revisitamos a história da Psicologia Social Comunitária (PSC) no Brasil e analisamos a ausência de menções aos trabalhos produzidos pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Partindo da pesquisa histórica com fontes bibliográficas, buscamos responder à seguinte pergunta: qual a contribuição da USP para o campo da PSC brasileira? Os resultados mostraram...

Resumo: A história da Psicologia no Brasil evidencia que esta ciência e profissão se consolidou vinculada aos interesses das elites, mas que transformações aconteceram no decorrer dos anos de 1970 devido, principalmente, aos esforços das teorias críticas e práticas contra-hegemônicas da Psicologia Comunitária e da Educação. Esses novos fazeres fort...

El artículo proporciona una recapitulación de las experiencias investigativas de los autores, enmarcadas en la psicología comunitaria e intercultural, en torno a la sabiduría del Pueblo Ancestral Kayambi, específicamente en el territorio de la comunidad Pucara de Pesillo, en la provincia de Pichincha, Ecuador. El objetivo de este artículo es eviden...

Background: Global Minority country contexts, alongside outdoor and natural environments, influence refugees’ heterogenous place attachments (PA). Yet, forced migration and clinical psychology policies minimally acknowledge this. Traditional psychological interventions alone are insufficient for refugee healing; contemporary guidelines encourage re...

A Psicologia Comunitária Latino-americana é compreendida a partir da sua relação direta com a formação social, política e econômica do continente. Dessa forma, o presente estudo teve como objetivo realizar uma revisão sistemática da produção acadêmica da Psicologia Comunitária na América Latina e Caribe. A busca pelos descritores “Community Psychol...

Resumo: O percurso da psicologia brasileira nas políticas de saúde mental é problematizado neste ensaio a partir de uma perspectiva cartográfica de avaliação de seus deslocamentos, colocando em análise quatro platôs de agenciamentos: a Psicologia Comunitária, o movimento sanitário, a luta antimanicomial e os novos pactos sociais. De um modo geral,...

Introducción: Las comprensiones sobre una apuesta social comunitaria en un plan de estudios de psicología desbordan el interés de una disciplina en particular. Se convierten en tema de interés por su propósito de incidir en problemáticas y necesidades psicosociales y comunitarias del mundo actual, para el bienestar multidimensional de sujetos, grup...

While the detrimental effects of disasters on tourism destinations and the importance of disaster preparedness and eco-friendly practices are acknowledged, a global research gap exists regarding how to motivate tourism businesses to adopt both simultaneously. The study area, Pokhara, Nepal, is one of the tourist destinations with climate, environme...

Las comunidades geográficas son reconocidas por el lugar relevante que ocupan en la sociedad. Tienen un rol significativo en la construcción y transformación social, el fortalecimiento de identidades, culturas y la conformación de una red de relaciones de apoyo mutuo, en contraposición a la desintegración social y el individualismo. En el contexto...

Some commentators have recently argued that scientific psychology is overly reliant on artificial laboratory-based activities and that it undervalues field-based investigations. However, it remains unclear how a field-based programme of psychological research might be organized in a scalable way. We examine and compare two existing field-based appr...

This paper explores the psychobiology of resilience within the context of disaster management, integrating insights from psychology, neurobiology, and social sciences. Resilience, defined as the capacity to maintain or regain psychological and physical well-being in the face of adversity, involves complex biopsychosocial processes. We examine theor...

Author Biographies: Kai Handfield, is a PhD student in Community psychology at University of Quebec in Montreal. In recognition of their position as a white settler (descendant of Irish and English settlers in the 1800s), living on the stolen lands of Tiohtiá:ke, they seek to offer their research skills in support of anticolonial and environmental...

While psychologists have only recently become extensively interested in character development and virtue acquisition, such an interest has existed for centuries among Muslim scholars. Islamic scholars have created many typologies and classifications of the virtues building upon the tradition they inherited from the ancient Greeks. Among the most no...

Aims Patients experiencing Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) are some of the costliest in both primary and secondary care. Psychotherapy is one of the most efficacious ways of treating them although the most superior modality is unclear. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has the greatest evidence base, but a growing number of studies have inve...

Este artigo trata de um relato de experiência sobre os círculos de cultura realizados em uma escola de Educação Básica, tendo como objetivo a busca de diálogos educativos entre a escola e as etnias Guarani e Kaingang e o aprofundamento dos estudos e reflexões acerca da psicologia comunitária em torno da experiência da educação, para favorecer as ap...

This work aims to present the systematization of the process of construction and implementation of a Community Engagement model (hereinafter VcM -in spanish) for the Psychology degree at the University of Aysén (hereinafter, the University); as well as their contributions and challenges to enhance the bridges between university engagement and curri...

With the widespread penetration of network and computer technology into various fields of contemporary life, there exists a compelling imperative to investigate the nexus among the portrayal of female imagery within Online Social Media (OSM) advertisements, consumers’ proclivity for purchase, and the psychological unease prevalent in the online com...

Através da abordagem qualitativa descritiva, este trabalho visa apresentar a experiência de estágio profissional em psicologia comunitária, com foco na atuação em grupos terapêuticos com mulheres. O estágio ocorreu no Serviço-Escola de Psicologia de uma instituição de Ensino Superior, visando melhorar a qualidade de vida das mulheres atendidas pelo...

STAC advises the ISKO membership and the ISKO Board of Directors on ongoing developments in KO research and technology and on areas where more research and development is needed. STAC is concerned with the pervasive subject of Knowledge Organization, its scholarship, theory, principles, and applications • across many disciplines, including Inform...

STAC advises the ISKO membership and the ISKO Board of Directors on ongoing developments in KO research and technology and on areas where more research and development is needed. STAC is concerned with the pervasive subject of Knowledge Organization, its scholarship, theory, principles, and applications • across many disciplines, including Inform...

Despite wide agreement among practitioners on the need for integration, mental health and peacebuilding practice remain siloed in conflict‐affected contexts. Yet before the integration of these two fields should occur, a revaluation of existing practice is needed. Within the field of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), critics have long...

This research delves into the psychology of the Aceh community in receiving Rohingya refugees, with a particular emphasis on the influence of local identity. It critically analyzes mass media to identify reporting patterns and perspectives on Rohingya refugees. Data were gathered through news analysis and in-depth interviews to gain insights into t...

This study aims to relate the emerging field of community psychology with the philosophical thoughts of Wonhyo, a prominent figure in Korean Buddhism, from the aspect of their common orientation, to explore the development of both Buddhist philosophy and psychological research. The integration of modern psychology and Buddhist theory has only recen...

Background Patients living with various rare or orphan diseases (ROD) experience common psychosocial difficulties. Those need emerge from a combination of factors, such as the large variety of patients and the rarity of resources, as well as concentrated efforts on physical health needs that yielded increases in life expectancy and quality in patie...

The Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991, saw the extensive use of propaganda to shape public opinion and advance political agendas. Amidst this ideological battle, Radio Free Europe (RFE) emerged as a pivotal tool in the United States' strategy to combat the spread of communism...

Se llevó a cabo un taller vivencial y reflexivo para poder identificar los elementos vivenciales y de autocuidado emocional que poseen las juventudes universitarias que se forman como promotoras de la salud integral, descubriendo el papel que juega el estrés dentro de su vida cotidiana y de manera particular durante la pandemia por SARS-Cov-2. Part...

Este artículo se presenta con el objetivo de compartir una reflexión crítica sobre el trabajo de cuidados desde la praxis investigativa realizada en el contexto de una investigación más amplia, correspondiente a una tesis doctoral llevada a cabo por la autora en Chiapas, México. Se desarrolla la perspectiva teórica y se expone, a modo de ejercicio...

Nyakayojo Subcounty in Mbarara District, Uganda, faces significant challenges in agricultural sustainability despite its rich agricultural potential. This paper investigates the application of community psychology principles to enhance agricultural practices and resilience among farmers in Nyakayojo Subcounty. Through a participatory research appro...

This thesis explores the ways and continuities of the relationship between well-being and individual conceptions of social change in civically engaged young people on queer issues. (Critical) Community Psychology, which works with the social context of well-being, was chosen as the main paradigmatic grounding of the thesis. Based on a study of the...

The 1960s and 1970s saw the overt “politicization” of the American Psychological Association as an organization. Politics in this context carried a dual meaning referring to both political lobbying to promote the interests of psychology as a health profession and grassroots political action to advance social justice causes. In the years between the...

In this paper, we are going to explore the research question which is: Is social media engagement related to social support among young people? To assess the importance, this article investigates that the relationship between social support and social media engagement through several literature reviews. It has searched some themes about emotional i...

En este capítulo se realiza un análisis teórico que permite ampliar la comprensión de la cultura de riesgo vial, con el objetivo de identificar aspectos clave de esta cultura desde el enfoque de la psicología comunitaria aplicada a la realidad de América Latina, para comprender sus raíces y posibles escenarios de cambio. En este trabajo se busca re...

En este capítulo se realiza un análisis teórico que permite ampliar la comprensión de la cultura de riesgo vial, con el objetivo de identificar aspectos clave de esta cultura desde el enfoque de la psicología comunitaria aplicada a la realidad de América Latina, para comprender sus raíces y posibles escenarios de cambio. En este trabajo se busca re...

In 2019, the Council of Delegates of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement adopted a Resolution on the Implementation of Community Engagement and Accountability Policy. The resolution concerns the operational programs of all organizations that are associated with the Movement and adhere to its principles. Since the beginning of the...

Representative democracy is in crisis worldwide, notably in Latin America, where governments struggle to meet public expectations, exacerbating frustrations due to socioeconomic instability, poverty, violence, inequality, and a perceived inability to address these issues. Disenchantment often leads to the rise of authoritarian regimes, where a mino...

In this roundtable discussion, we want to reflect back on the current state of social/political psychological research on Kurdish resistance with the help of social scientists mostly outside the psychology. We hope that discussing research on Kurdish resistance can also support our ongoing critical reflections on social psychological research pract...

Although social Q&A communities flourish due to the exchange of knowledge, their sustainability is jeopardized by an increasing disparity between those seeking and providing knowledge. To address this crucial matter, this study explores the factors that drive knowledge-sharing within these communities. Utilizing social exchange theory, social infor...

This article reports on the rigour of a selection process for master’s degree programmes in clinical and counselling psychology at an undisclosed university in South Africa over a six-year period (n=81). This was achieved by completing correlation and regression analyses between the six selection activities, the six course modules, and the course a...

In this chapter, I describe my experience of participatory research as of taking back the findings of a previous research on understandings of 'Kurdish Power' to Kurdish communities in Western Turkey and Bakurê Kurdistan. Drawing on anticolonial, liberation and critical race approaches in community psychology, I explain why and how we designed and...

This session will explore the potential of Photovoice as a means to empower youth voices and foster community engagement and leadership development. Building on the implications drawn from the presenter's dissertation implications, "Strengthening Community Engagement," we will delve into how Photovoice can serve as a transformative tool for young p...

Community-engaged research (CEnR) has moved from the fringes to the mainstream of academic research, particularly that which orients to goals of social, racial, and health equity. The construct of empowerment, which encompasses interconnected processes at the level of the individual, the organization, and the community, can be used to understand th...

Café Therapy is a novel technique that blends the convenience of coffee shop settings with counseling and therapy services, with the goal of making mental health care more accessible and stigma-free. Café Therapy not only creates additional money but also lowers barriers to getting treatment and builds social resilience through community ties by in...

This descriptive qualitative study was designed to understand the experiences of former Community Psychology (CP) undergraduate students who participated in a degree program at a California university. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how former Community Psychology undergraduate students describe their experiences using reflecti...

This paper addresses the marginalisation of tāngata kāpō Māori (blind and low-vision Indigenous New Zealanders) in health- and vision-related research, despite New Zealand’s commitments to international conventions. Utilising a pūrākau-based approach, it challenges existing colonial narratives and emphasises the importance of Māori perspectives. We...

Los determinantes sociales de la salud, como la cultura y el lenguaje, se deben considerar en la salud pública para que los pueblos originarios accedan a la prevención y atención temprana de padecimientos, como el cáncer de mama. La implementación del proyecto “Tsitsikwyniya”, bajo el esquema de Investigación-acción, para la atención a la salud mam...

The present research aimed to investigate the components of identity in coffee producers, the relationship and influence it presents in the establishment of community participation strategies, and the formation of a community brand among coffee producers of the Association of Regional Organic Coffee Producers Larecaja APCERL in the Chuchuca communi...

A critical need for mental health interventions is clear in the modern era. Bodily attunements to place and space can help cultivate belongingness and heal the anxious modern body, as well as facilitate community solidarity to combat the loneliness and isolation that many are experiencing. Human systems and services have the potential to facilitate...

Play as children's work and activity in daily life plays an important role in developing children's creative thinking. Children are born creative, but the creativity of many of them drops around the age of ten, which can be seen as the main factor in formal and informal education environments. The purpose of this research is to develop and validate...

En el año 2020, Ecuador sufrió las dolorosas consecuencias de la pandemia del covid-19 y su cuestionada gestión gubernamental. Nos referimos, específicamente, a las afectaciones vividas en la ciudad de Guayaquil, cuyas comunidades debimos lidiar con una crisis sanitaria y funeraria que dejó cadáveres visibles en hospitales, casas y calles; y con la...

Minoritised individuals (people identifying as belonging to groups experiencing socially constructed power inequalities) frequently experience mental health inequalities. Mental health services have often, intentionally or inadvertently, perpetuated these inequalities due to historic and ongoing sys-temic discrimination. To reduce inequalities, men...

Purpose of the Study: This research aims to investigate the intricate relationship between communal identity, rituals, and dreams within the Festino di San Silvestro rite in Troina, Sicily. It focuses on understanding how shared dreaming, facilitated by the Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM), reflects and shapes communal engagement with cultural myths an...

El desarrollo local en Cuba resulta un objetivo de alcance nacional. Las contribuciones de la psicología comunitaria al mismo, se orientan al análisis de la subjetividad colectiva y su papel mediador en la conformación del entramado comunitario. La investigación analiza la articulación de las redes institucionales para la satisfacción de las necesi...

Research indicates that sexual orientation change efforts (SOCEs) are not effective and furthermore commonly lead to iatrogenic effects such as depression, anxiety, and even suicide. Negative attitudes toward homosexuality derive from most formal religions and are incarnated in medical and psychological theories that support and encourage SOCEs. Op...

Nowadays, the significance of monitoring stress levels and recognizing early signs of mental illness cannot be overstated. Automatic stress detection in text can proactively help manage stress and protect mental well-being. In today’s digital era, social media platforms reflect various communities’ psychological well-being and stress levels. This s...

Part of the appeal of digital health interventions, including mHealth, is the potential for greater reach in places where conventional health promotion is hampered by geographical, financial or social barriers. Yet, ‘engagement’ – typically understood as user experience and interactions with technology - remains a persistent challenge, particularly...

In this presentation, I offer a brief personal reflection of my entry and introduction to psychology. I start from positionsing myself to highlight how we do not come into institutions of higher learning and our disciplines as empty vessels but with histories that shape how we view the world. Drawing from social justice scholars and my earlier work...

The discourse around sex education is ambivalent and normatively loaded, stretching roughly between conservatism, liberalism, and neo-emancipation. In Germany, teachers receive no specific training and have little access to education, besides short and optional training from third-party providers. As a result, they feel left alone, overburdened, an...

In the face of harmful disparities and inequities, it is crucial for researchers to critically reflect on methodologies and research practices that can dismantle systems of oppression, accommodate pluralistic realities, and facilitate opportunities for all communities to thrive. Historically, knowledge production for the sciences has followed a col...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world population faced various mental health challenges, highlighting a need for new community-based psychosocial interventions. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of Nature-Based Therapy (NBT) for the community experiencing psychological distress during the pandemic. A multi-site tri...

We first describe the phenomenon of the academic paper mill, a kind of large-scale fraud in which authors pay to have work published in reputable journals. We give examples of some known paper mills and discuss ‘red flags’ that characterise their outputs. Most of the early examples were in biomedical and computational sciences and so paper mills ar...

xxxEl artículo presenta reflexiones emergentes de tres procesos de investigación desarrollados en Argentina, Uruguay y México que estudian las prácticas en comunidad de profesionales de la psicología. Se busca elucidar la praxis de la psicología comunitaria en la actualidad, con una perspectiva historizante, tomando como ejes de análisis los campos...

This article will examine the relationship between public mental health policy and the practice of community psychology through the lens of family support groups (FSGs). Government policy promotes community psychology, but the implementation thereof is lacking and gives way to approaches that deny the involvement of communities and families as equa...

Akhter, J., & Cheng, K. (2020). Sustainable empowerment initiatives among rural women through microcredit borrowings in Bangladesh. Sustainability, 12: 2275. Ani, F., Ramlan, N., Yusoff, R., & Damin, Z.A. (2018). Measuring the level of participation and its relationship with psychological empowerment through community based organisation (CBO) activ...

El siguiente ensayo quiere reflexionar sobre la psicología comunitaria como campo del saber, la cual es una disciplina reciente que necesita ser discutida a nivel epistemológico, ontológico y metodológico, en especial en el contexto latinoamericano por su legado e importancia en las comunidades más vulnerables. Por esto este escrito quiere identifi...

For a number of years, community-based service learning (CBSL) has been a key element of the Community Psychology module in the Master’s programme for training psychologists at Rhodes University. In 2022, CBSL was consolidated to become central to the whole programme, with a focus on providing services in a partnership with the Assumption Developme...

School‐based law enforcement (SBLE) have become increasingly common in U.S. schools over recent decades despite the controversy surrounding their presence and lack of consensus around their associated benefits and harms. Drawing on the history and evidence base regarding SBLE, we advocate for an end to SBLE programs. Grounding our argument in princ...

Conflicts often take place between parents. It impacts the kids emotionally and also the way they behave. Kids of parents who have conflicts face difficulties in excelling in life and becoming successful. Family structure plays an important role in a kid’s development. Intense conflicts result in divorce, separation and even in spouses living toget...

In this virtual special issue, a set of 26 papers previously published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP), focused on self-help/mutual aid groups (SH/MAGs), are being curated given their significant impact in this domain. SH/MAGs constitute an important component of the community psychology's proposal to address various psychoso...

L’allaitement maternel est le moyen le plus naturel et le adapté pour nourrir un enfant. Notre étude a eu comme objectif principal d’évaluer le niveau de la psychologie communautaire sur la pratique de l’allaitement maternel exclusif pendant les six premiers mois de la vie tel que recommandé par l’OMS en 2021 dans la communauté de Tshumbe. Pour att...

El desarrollo sociopolítico es un proceso de crecimiento psicológico que capacita a los oprimidos para transformar situaciones externas de inequidad. Como propuesta teórica, surge de la intersección entre las psicologías comunitaria y del desarrollo, la psicología de la liberación y la pedagogía de Freire. En este trabajo se presenta el concepto de...

The sociopolitical development is a process of psychological growth that empowers the oppressed to transform external situations of inequity. As a theoretical proposal, it emerges from the intersection of community psychology, development psychology, liberation psychology, and Freirean pedagogy. This work introduces the concept of sociopolitical de...

Introduction: The research was intended to conduct an analysis of the notion of community empowerment and how it is used in sex worker collectives, was conducted through an exploration of academic publications from Latin American nations over the last decade. Objective: To critically analyze the notion of community empowerment and its relevance to...

Community psychology takes an explicitly political stance by identifying where power lies and how it is exercised in ways that maintain privilege and discrimination against particular groups. From this perspective, we consider the challenges facing school education in South Africa today. Education is positioned as an important site for the liberati...

The above-named candidate has satisfactorily completed a dissertation as required for attaining the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Community Psychology Doctoral Program.

El sentido de comunidad es uno de los procesos más investigados en psicología comunitaria. Desde su formulación inicial, la pertenencia a estructuras sociales y geográficas más amplias forma parte de la definición del concepto. La investigación sobre el tema ha solido centrarse en el análisis de los factores ambientales y colectivos que modulan la...

Social capital is a valuable asset in community psychology for the growth of happiness. The various components of social capital, including trust and reciprocity, help youth to function positively in society. Unfortunately, previous literature ignored a higher-order analysis of social capital with happiness. This research aimed to examine the assoc...

In the July 2021 period, Covid-19 cases in Indonesia jumped sharply. The Indonesian government responded to the spike in cases by implementing a physical distancing policy called PPKM (Pemberlakuan Pembatasan Kegiatan Masyarakat). One of the public's responses to the policy is reluctance or disobedience to existing policies because they experience...

Background: Exercise Training at work has the potential to improve employees’ produc-tivity, health, and well-being. However, exercise interventions to healthcare workers in hospitals may be challenged by a high time pressure and the ongoing workflow with patient care. Objective: The aim was to identify barriers and facilitators for participation i...

The field of coral gardening and active restoration has expanded rapidly over the past 2 decades in response to the rapid, global decline of coral reefs. Even with this expansion, the long-term success of coral restoration and ecosystem recovery will still depend on social action to mitigate the local and global stressors plaguing reefs. Rescue a R...

Reflecting on pedagogy and curricula that have shaped the field of community psychology, we review the history of training community psychologists since the field's inception in the United States. We then examine relevant academic literature documenting how digital technologies in the 21st century have been successfully used in community-based part...

In this study, we examined how school policies and strategies (i.e., positive discipline, hardening strategies, and positive behavioral strategies) affect teacher relational factors and teacher reports of victimization and safety. Specifically, we examined the mediational roles of teacher support of student learning, maltreatment of students by tea...

The positive effects of youth civic engagement can be felt both at the individual level (e.g., better emotional regulation, a greater sense of empowerment) and at the community level (e.g., a greater likelihood of participation in civic and political activities). They may also be a protective factor for at-risk youth in the short and long term and...

This commentary presents a virtual special issue on the global growth of community psychology (CP), particularly, but not exclusively, as reflected in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJCP). CP exists in at least 50 countries all over the world, in many of those for over 25 years. Yet, aside from several early Israeli articles, AJCP ra...

Background: Black transmasculine people are disproportionately affected by a myriad of intersecting stressors including racism (specifically anti-Black racism), sexism, and cissexism. Black transmasculine people are exposed daily to systemic oppression such as transphobia, dehumanization, and violence, making this community more vulnerable to menta...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world population suffered from a range of mental health problems, and there has been a need for new community-based psychosocial interventions. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of Natural-Based Therapy (NBT) for the community experiencing psychological distress during the pandemic....

Background: Patients living with various rare or orphan diseases (ROD) experience common psychosocial difficulties for which they currently lack support. We developed, pilot-tested and evaluated acceptability, feasibility, implementation, and short-term effects of an online group intervention to support adult patients with a ROD (AP-ROD), which aim...

This article memorializes Edison J. Trickett (1941-2022), a leading theorist in community psychology. After joining the psychology faculty at Yale (1969-1977) and the Yale Psychoeducational Clinic, Ed became a faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he taught until 2000 and directed doctoral training in clinical/community...

This article memorializes A. Rodney Nurse (1928-2022). Rod was an innovator in the fields of clinical, counseling, assessment, family, and community psychology. Rod was a life fellow of the APA divisions of Family Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Trauma Psychology and a member of the divisions of Independent Practice, Psychotherapy, and the Soc...

p> Over the years, reports of overcrowding, unsanitary circumstances, and inhumane treatment towards detainees have been increasing. In the Philippines, specific reports on poor inmate living conditions and violence are prominent. Moreover, the incarcerated are placed in life-altering circumstances when the prison cells are overcrowded, resulting...

p> Over the years, reports of overcrowding, unsanitary circumstances, and inhumane treatment towards detainees have been increasing. In the Philippines, specific reports on poor inmate living conditions and violence are prominent. Moreover, the incarcerated are placed in life-altering circumstances when the prison cells are overcrowded, resulting...

A psicologia comunitária surge como a psicologia da transformação social, tendo um compromisso inalienável com as maiorias populares e os movimentos sociais. É a partir desse campo que construímos uma experiência de práxis junto à ColetivA Mulheres da Quebrada, sediada no Aglomerado da Serra na cidade de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Aliando o inst...

The article presents the relevance of human rights education, specifically to eradicate discrimination against women, as a measure that meets international standards and obligations on the matter. Therefore, it´s presented a theoretical-practical proposal that aims to contribute to prevention and eradication of discrimination against women in Mexic...