Main description:

Radical Psychology outlines the psychological factors that shape multicultural competency and social justice effectiveness, such as implicit and explicit biases, difficulties in accurate self-assessment of cultural competency and social justice skills, and the historical biases that continue to shape Western psychological training and practice. This book provides a challenging balance between research and professional reflections in order to appeal to readers with different cultural backgrounds and learning styles. The diversity of the contributors underscores the need to include cultural experts as side-by-side colleagues, consultants, and supervisors in order to help Western psychologists expand their professional cultural paradigms and worldviews. This book is recommended for psychologists, counselors, educators, researchers, social workers, substance abuse counselors, administrators, students, and mental health agencies.

Contents:

Chapter 1: A Changing Paradigm by Susan O. Gelberg and Mathew A. Poteet
Chapter 2: The Existential Change in Perspective in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) by David D. Moore
Chapter 3: The Psychologist and Allied Behavioral Health Facilitators Re-Trained as Humanistic Firestarters by David. D. Moore and Don Coyhis
Chapter 4: Treatment Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence in the Lives of African American Women: A Social Justice Approach by Carolyn M. West
Chapter 5: Immigration and Social Justice by Alfonso Mercado & Amanda Venta
Chapter 6: Moving Beyond Culturally Competent Services for Vietnamese Americans: Working towards Social Justice by Kim Nguyen-Finn and Jerome Fischer
Chapter 7: Adventures in Intersectionality: The Journey of an Early Career Psychologist by Jessica L. Binkley
Chapter 8: Social Justice in Prevention Psychology: Healing with The Community Readiness Model by Pamela Jumper Thurman, Barbara A Plested, Kateri Coyhis And Hanna Moore
Chapter 9: The Issues of Identity, Self-Awareness, and Social Justice by Fred C. Miller
Chapter 10: Decolonizing Knowledge Creation: Moving Toward the Sacred and the Liminal by Mathew A. Poteet and Bonita M. Veysey