{"product_id":"community-psychology-in-practice-hardback","title":"Community Psychology in Practice - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommunity Psychology in Practice: An Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique examination of how community psychology evolved through the years. Five highly respected community psychologists recount their personal histories telling how they went from academia to careers disseminating principles of community psychology. Newer members to the field of psychology can trace how these leaders came to pursue careers in community psychology. As these respected experts tell their own stories in accessible narrative form, the reader gains a clear understanding of how applied community psychology intertwines with history, context, social movements, and individual personalities is revealed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach career story in \u003cem\u003eCommunity Psychology in Practice: An Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates how societal events such as wars, economic depressions, the civil rights movement, and discrimination shaped personal philosophies and ultimately lead to their decision to become applied community psychologists and practitioners. Each contributor was asked to discuss their stories from four experiential dimensions: personal, contextual, intellectual, and ideological. The various viewpoints reveal how each one’s ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and academic background affected how they experienced the history of community psychology. Three eminent scholars from the fields of community psychology, history, and business psychology discuss the narratives to provide further insight. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrative studies in \u003cem\u003eCommunity Psychology in Practice: An Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists\u003c\/em\u003e include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnne Mulvey \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJohn Morgan \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIrma Serrano-Garcia \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTom Wolff \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCarolyn Swift. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommunity Psychology in Practice: An Oral History Through the Stories of Five Community Psychologists\u003c\/em\u003e is an encouraging, stimulating look at community psychology that is valuable to community psychologists, historians of psychology, researchers, industrial organization (IO) psychologists, educators, and students.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45600279429358,"sku":"9780789037633","price":143.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/community-psychology-in-practice-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}