Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change / Edition 1

by Forrest B. Tyler

Overview

Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their ‘internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441933515
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/06/2010
Series:	The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Pages:	481
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

1 Background.- 2 The Structure of a Nested Framework.- 3 Psychology’s Nested Frameworks.- 4 The Ethnic Validity of People’s Lives.- 5 Individual Psychosocial Competence.- 6 Psychosocial Leaps and Spirals.- 7 Autonomy and Relatedness.- 8 Resource Generation and Interchange.- 9 Belief Systems.- 10 Pathology and Competence.- 11 Elitism, Racism, and Professionalism.- 12 Violence.- 13 Interventions: An Evaluative Matrix.- 14 Choosing and Evaluating Approaches to Change.- 15 Prospects and Challenges.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Provides a conceptual framework and guidelines for psychologists to relate their personal and professional activities and orientations to broader networks. The framework, called the transcultural ethnic validity model (TEVM), is based on recognizing the interrelationships between sciences and professions, cultures, communities, other social organizations, and individuals. Explores psychology's origins, current status, and barriers as well as potentials for future developments, highlighting changes in psychology's assumptions over time and identifying changes in people's conceptions of human nature, societal organizations, and scientific knowledge systems. The author is affiliated with the University of Maryland. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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