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Introduction
to community psychology
EVENTS
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EUROPE
PLYMOUTH, UK
UK Community Psychology
Conference, 1st and 2nd July 2010
Change
Challenges: a conference exploring the links between environment,
equality, sustainability & community well-being.
conference flyer
booking
form
Conference programme (provisional)
University
of Plymouth: Roland Levinski Building
We
believe that as psychologists we have a responsibility to contribute to
government and community action to protect the environment. Ecological
damage and climate change currently threaten continuing life on the
planet. The immediate consequences of global warming particularly
threaten the poorest and least resourced people in the world (and those
least responsible for the problem). As psychologists, we should be
contributing our knowledge and skills to support and help to progress
the work of environmental scientists, campaigners and activists in
areas such as energy stewardship, investment in public transport and
encouraging sustainable consumption.
Psychological
theory and practice can help to:
- understand and counter processes of denial
- expose and critique powerful vested interests
- understand processes of participation, persuasion and
decision-making
- encourage and enable people to work together toward sustainable
futures.
If we are
to survive and thrive, people and societies need to make change happen:
as psychologists, we must play our part.
(From The Birmingham Manifesto: Psychology in a Global
Context, April 2007)
We
hope to explore and debate these issues in a participatory,
challenging, and inclusive event: bringing together community
psychologists and other psychologists with community activists, along
with people from business as well as local and national government, to
explore how we can use and change psychology together for
sustainability, well-being and justice. The conference is supported by
Devon Primary Care Trust Child and Adolescent Services, giving us a
special emphasis on the role and impact of sustainability for young
people and children. We hope to come away inspired for further action,
research, projects and networking, with new ideas about how community
psychology could contribute and be influenced by national and
inter-national debates and initiatives around climate change and our
futures.
Your
contribution could be a workshop, a paper with discussion, or a poster,
or some other format that we haven’t yet thought of: we
welcome practice and real-world based contributions, as well as those
that are scholarly, theoretical or academic.
We hope
your contribution would fit into one (or more) of these themes:
1.
Processes of change: social, cultural, political, behavioural,
psychological
2. Equality
and social justice
3. Climate
change/environment
4. Food:
its availability/the way we grow it/its impact on global and individual
physical & psychological well-being
Contact: Lisa Thorne lisa.thorne
(AT)nhs.net replacing
(AT) with
@, or by post to Annie
Mitchell PAHC, Marjon, Derriford Road, Plymouth, PLY 6BH
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overseas
links
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Community
Psychology in the UK
Community
Psychology Network (UK)
we carry information on
events on this site also you can join approx 100 people on
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History
project - work on this project about
the
development of community psychology in Britain is
complete. It is part of a project for an international
book.
Here
is the draft of the chapter on the UK - comments welcome.
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Community,
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Journal
of Community and Applied Social Psychology
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Community Psychology in
MANCHESTER
Community
psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University:
Download
general leaflet on community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan
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format
updated Jan 2004
Download
leaflet on MSc in community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan
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updated Jan 2004
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poster on MSc in community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan
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The
Community and Organisational Psychology Research Group at Manchester
Metropolitan
University
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The
Community and Organisational Psychology research group aims to
undertake innovative, collaborative and participative work of social
relevance. We undertake research and consultancy which informs policy,
enhances the effectiveness of organisations and enhances the lives of
vulnerable people by asking meaningful questions, encouraging the
participation of those involved in the research and disseminating the
findings to all those with a stake in the research. In much of our work
we use an action research orientation and remain involved in projects
over extended periods of time.......more |
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Publications
list: Community and Organisational Psychology Research
Group:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Current
Projects Link
to some of Carolyn Kagan's projects
Other
UK
London
Psychological
Helping and Support Research Group
at University College, London - page set up by Chris Barker and Nancy
Pistrang -updated
"The
UCL Psychological Helping and Support Research
Group is a loose association of clinical/community psychologists, led
by Dr Chris Barker and Dr Nancy Pistrang. It is part of the Research
Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, in the
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences of University College
London. Our
research focuses on all types of psychological helping and support. We
mostly study those types that psychologists call social support, such
as peer support, mutual support groups, internet support, befriending
and mentoring. "
London
School of Economics: MSc in Health, Community and
Development, based at the LSE Social Psychology
Institute. Catherine
Campbell explains the programme:
The
programme will draw primarily on community psychology, critical health
psychology and social psychology. It aims to explore the role of
community participation and small-scale collective action in public
health and health promotion. It pays particular attention to the
psycho-social processes underlying the impact of collective action on
health, and the mechanisms through which community development
approaches may lead not only to improved health, but also to
transformatory social action. Our starting assumption is that efforts
to promote health and to reduce disease need to combine top down and
bottom up approaches. Whilst the primary focus of the course will be
the bottom up dimension, emphasis will be continually be laid on the
inter-dependence of these two levels of action and analysis.
Flyer about the
programme (pdf file)
or request a hard copy from
Community
Psychology in UK Higher Education Web Page maintained by
Paul
Duckett, Manchester Metro University - growing collection of resources.
West
Midlands Community and Critical Psychology Special Interest Group
Critical
Community Psychology at the University of Stirling
- no current web page, but here is
address for David
Fryer:
Proceedings
of the 1999 UK Community Psychology Conference, Manchester
(Proceedings
of the previous conference can be found in Clinical
Psychology Forum
No 122, December 1998)
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