A personal sojourn to spiritualize community psychology
β Scribed by Richard Walsh-Bowers
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 95 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From a personal perspective on the tensions experienced in my career as a community psychologist, I advocate spiritualizing community psychology. I draw heavily from my teaching and research of the history of the discipline, as well as from teaching introductory psychology to Native students. Using the critical concept of scientism to examine the historical dialectic between
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