Integrating Social Justice and Psychology
- 1 November 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Counseling Psychologist
- Vol. 32 (6), 855-865
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000004269274
Abstract
This article seeks to extend the model Goodman et al. advanced for making counseling psychology training more useful in the struggle for social justice. In addition to affirming the ideas of Goodman et al., this article offers some specific examples of how conventional, micro-level ideas in U.S. psychology can be scaled upward to be useful across multiple levels of social analysis. The author offers a critique of Goodman et al.’s near exclusive focus on multicultural perspectives in psychology by introducing ideas from the “radical school” of Black psychology to make the point that people with a history of oppression can have different training needs than those with a history of privilege.Keywords
This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Sociopolitical DevelopmentAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, 2003
- Individual Orientation Toward Engagement in Social ActionPolitical Psychology, 2002