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Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion Putting Our Practice to Work

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ISBN-10: 0807751243

ISBN-13: 9780807751244

Edition: 2010

Authors: Laura Smith, Allen E. Ivey, Derald Wing Sue

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Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the helping professions”—people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this groundbreaking book, Smith charts the ebbs and flows of psychology’s consideration of poor clients, and then points to promising new approaches to serving poor communities that go beyond remediation, sympathy, and charity.
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Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 8/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Allen E. Ivey received his counseling doctorate from Harvard University and is distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Courtesy Professor, Counselor Education, University of South Florida, Tampa. He is past-President and Fellow of the Society for Counseling Psychology of the American Psychological Association, APA's Society for the Study of Ethnic and Minority Psychology, the Asian-American Psychological Association, and the American Counseling Association. He has received many awards throughout his career and has authored over 40 books and 200 articles and chapters. His works have been translated into 23 languages. His recent work has focused on…    

Derald Wing Sue is professor of psychology and education in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. He has written extensively in the field of counseling psychology and multicultural counseling/therapy and is co-author of a bestselling book, COUNSELING THE CULTURALLY DIVERSE: THEORY AND PRACTICE. Dr. Sue has served as president of the Society of Counseling Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues and has received numerous awards for teaching and service. He received his doctorate from the University of Oregon.

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is Social Class?
Setting the Stage: Social Class and Multicultural/Social Justice Competence
The Silence Around Social Class
Approaches to Social Class Analysis
A Framework for Social Class
Social Class Membership: A Dimension of Sociocultural Identity
Classism
A Social Justice Framework
Looking at Classism Now
Putting It All Together: Seeing Classism Within a Social Justice Framework
The Implications of Seeing Classism
Poverty in Psychological Scholarship
Poverty Hurts People
Foundations of Economic Injustice in Social and Community Psychology
Practitioners and the Poor
The Causes of the Causes
In Their Own Words: Qualitative Expressions of Life in Poverty
Life Without the Basics
Chaos and Crisis
Stigma and Exclusion
Values and Hopes
Reflecting on These Studies
Psychotherapy and Training in the Context of Poverty: Barriers and Growing Edges
Exploring Classist Attitudinal Barriers to Psychotherapeutic Competence
Addressing Classism and Poverty Within Psychotherapy and Supervision
The Broader Implications of Socially Just Practice and Supervision
Beyond Psychotherapy: Transforming Mental Health Practice in the Context of Poverty
Another Way to Evaluate Interventions: Psychopolitical Validity
Transformed Psychotherapeutic Practice: Relational-Cultural Therapy and Mutuality
Co-Created Therapeutic Experiences
More Different Still: Community Praxis
Can You Imagine?
Parting Thoughts on Poverty, Help, Service, and Action
Poverty Is Social Exclusion
"Helping" the Poor
What Is Researchable Versus What Is Good
Advocacy for Economic Justice Is Advocacy for Psychological Well-Being
References
Index
About the Author