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Community Psychology

- Emerging Issues and Challenges

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk

Beskrivelse

This book focuses on the theoretical concepts of community psychology and its applications in day-to-day life. It discusses the challenges that adversely affect the welfare and well-being of common people and suggests community-centric, evidence-based measures to address them.

Factors like new-age lifestyles, fast-paced development, and an increase in occurrence of natural calamities have been detrimental to the psychological well-being of the community. This volume integrates the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental aspects of community psychology to address community life-based issues which include mental health stigma, social asymmetries, resource disparities, disadvantaged minority groups, the differently abled, HIV/AIDS patients, project-affected people, and disaster victims.

Key features of this book include:

Dedicated intervention-based chapters on mental health, physical health, differently abled people, the elderly, vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS patients, and people affected by development projects and disastersFocus on challenges faced by students and school-based family counsellingCase studies and conceptual models for better understanding and application of the subjectThe volume will be a valuable resource to students, researchers, and teachers of Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, and Social Economics. It will also be an indispensable read for social workers, NGOs, advocacy groups, and policymakers working in the field of social upliftment.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal470
  • Udgivelsesdato10-11-2023
  • ISBN139781032589305
  • Forlag Routledge India
  • FormatPaperback
Størrelse og vægt
  • Vægt910 g
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    15,6 cm
    23,4 cm

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