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PLYMOUTH, UK
UK Community Psychology Conference, 1st and 2nd July 2010Change Challenges: a conference exploring the links between environment, equality, sustainability & community well-being.University of Plymouth: Roland Levinski BuildingCall for contributions proposal formWe
believe that as psychologists we have a responsibility to contribute to
government and community action to protect the environment. Ecological
damage and climate change currently threaten continuing life on the
planet. The immediate consequences of global warming particularly
threaten the poorest and least resourced people in the world (and those
least responsible for the problem). As psychologists, we should be
contributing our knowledge and skills to support and help to progress
the work of environmental scientists, campaigners and activists in
areas such as energy stewardship, investment in public transport and
encouraging sustainable consumption. Psychological theory and practice can help to: - understand and counter processes of denial
- expose and critique powerful vested interests
- understand processes of participation, persuasion and decision-making
- encourage and enable people to work together toward sustainable futures.
If we are to survive and thrive, people and societies need to make change happen: as psychologists, we must play our part. (From The Birmingham Manifesto: Psychology in a Global Context, April 2007) We
hope to explore and debate these issues in a participatory,
challenging, and inclusive event: bringing together community
psychologists and other psychologists with community activists, along
with people from business as well as local and national government, to
explore how we can use and change psychology together for
sustainability, well-being and justice. The conference is supported by
Devon Primary Care Trust Child and Adolescent Services, giving us a
special emphasis on the role and impact of sustainability for young
people and children. We hope to come away inspired for further action,
research, projects and networking, with new ideas about how community
psychology could contribute and be influenced by national and
inter-national debates and initiatives around climate change and our
futures. Your
contribution could be a workshop, a paper with discussion, or a poster,
or some other format that we haven’t yet thought of: we
welcome practice and real-world based contributions, as well as those
that are scholarly, theoretical or academic. We hope your contribution would fit into one (or more) of these themes: 1. Processes of change: social, cultural, political, behavioural, psychological2. Equality and social justice3. Climate change/environment4. Food: its availability/the way we grow it/its impact on global and individual physical & psychological well-being Contact: Lisa Thorne lisa.thorne
(AT)nhs.net replacing
(AT) with
@, or by post to Annie Mitchell PAHC, Marjon, Derriford Road, Plymouth, PLY 6BH
LONDON
De-medicalising Misery
Friday, 15th January 2010 UEL Conference Centre, Stratford Campus,
Water Lane, London E15 see www.uel.ac.uk/misery
Also see overseas
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Community
Psychology in the UK
Community
Psychology Network (UK)
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Position statements and media releases
CPUK statement of support and solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Community
Psychologists in the UK (CPUK) extend their support for and solidarity
to the people of Gaza. We are calling upon the British government and
the British people to take all feasible steps, beginning with immediate
boycotts, divestments and sanctions against the state of Israel, to
oblige Israel's political administration to: abide by international
law; dismantle its apartheid regime spanning both the occupied
territories and Israel; immediately and unconditionally end its assault
on Gaza; end the occupation of the West Bank; abandon all claims to
possess or control territory beyond its 1967 borders; and commit to
pursuing a long-lasting, just peace.
CPUK denounces as war
crimes and crimes against humanity the disproportionality of Israel's
attacks on Gaza, which includes the indiscriminate killing of men,
women and children. The Israeli Defense Force deliberately: targets
hospitals, civilian shelters and prevents medical aid reaching the
injured and medical supplies and equipment from entering the Gaza
Strip; uses white phosphorous munitions in civilian areas; and destroys
Gaza's infrastructure of roads, water supplies, sanitation, food
production, food distribution, food security, electricity, social
services, education services, health services, law and order, housing,
environmental services, and broader social support structures. These
actions suggest the Israeli political administration's has genocidal
intentions towards the people of Palestine.
The massacre of
civilians in Gaza is the latest phase of a war that successive
governments of Israel (supported by the USA and Britain) have been
waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years. The goal
of this war has never changed: to use overwhelming military power to
eradicate the Palestinians as a political force capable of resisting
Israel's ongoing appropriation of Palestinian land and resources. CPUK
believes that for the sake of justice and global peace, th Israeli
State must not be allowed to achieve this. Our belief in the right of
the Palestinians to democratic self-determination, and to resist
military aggression and colonial occupation, obligates us to take the
side of the people of Gaza and the West Bank and to side against Israel.
Statement issued by CPUK (Community Psychology UK)
Monday 19th January 2009
The Birmingham Manifesto: Community Psychology in a Global Context. (April 2007)
Press Release from The UK Community Psychology Network on Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
For
immediate release
16 October 2007
Changing politicians' minds about changing our minds?
"Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy and associated approaches are comprehensively
problematic. Primary prevention is the only way to substantially
reduce socially, economically and materially caused distress. To
be effective primary prevention must involve social rather than
cognitive change. Reducing income inequality in our society would
be one of the most effective ways to reduce psychological distress and
ill health”, says the UK Community Psychology Network.
Read the full press release.
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York Statement on Poverty - September 2007"As
community and critical psychologists we believe that psychologists have
a fundamental responsibility to join with others to end both poverty
and societal inequality independent of absolute wealth, which we
believe are personally, collectively and socially destructive.
We
believe mainstream psychology to be complicit with the prevailing
psychologically toxic neo-liberal economic order and believe psychology
has allowed itself to be used to hide systemic effects of poverty and
inequality and instead position poverty as a consequence of individual
psychological dysfunction.
We call for the radical
transformation of psychology so that it has the resources necessary to
expose the personally, collectively and socially destructive effects of
poverty and inequality and the proactive deployment, with allies, of
this transformed psychology to end poverty and societal inequality and
the exploitation, exclusion, oppression, distress and illness which
result from them."
…on behalf of the UK community psychology network
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History
project - work on this project about
the
development of community psychology in Britain is
complete. It is part of a project for an international
book.
Here
is the draft of the chapter on the UK - comments welcome.
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Journals on Community Psychology in the UK
Community,
Work and Family edited
by Carolyn
Kagan and Suzan Lewis
-->> Third International
CWF Conference - Utrecht, Holland
Journal
of Community and Applied Social Psychology
edited
by
Sandra Shrujer
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Community Psychology in
MANCHESTER
Community
psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University:
Download
general leaflet on community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan
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format
updated Jan 2004
Download
leaflet on MSc in community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan
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format.pdf
format
updated Jan 2004
Download
poster on MSc in community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan
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The
Community and Organisational Psychology Research Group at Manchester
Metropolitan
University
 | The
Community and Organisational Psychology research group aims to
undertake innovative, collaborative and participative work of social
relevance. We undertake research and consultancy which informs policy,
enhances the effectiveness of organisations and enhances the lives of
vulnerable people by asking meaningful questions, encouraging the
participation of those involved in the research and disseminating the
findings to all those with a stake in the research. In much of our work
we use an action research orientation and remain involved in projects
over extended periods of time.......more |
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Publications
list: Community and Organisational Psychology Research
Group:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Current
Projects Link
to some of Carolyn Kagan's projects
Other
UK
London
Psychological
Helping and Support Research Group
at University College, London - page set up by Chris Barker and Nancy
Pistrang -updated
"The
UCL Psychological Helping and Support Research
Group is a loose association of clinical/community psychologists, led
by Dr Chris Barker and Dr Nancy Pistrang. It is part of the Research
Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, in the
Division of Psychology and Language Sciences of University College
London. Our
research focuses on all types of psychological helping and support. We
mostly study those types that psychologists call social support, such
as peer support, mutual support groups, internet support, befriending
and mentoring. "
London
School of Economics: MSc in Health, Community and
Development, based at the LSE Social Psychology
Institute. Catherine
Campbell explains the programme:
The
programme will draw primarily on community psychology, critical health
psychology and social psychology. It aims to explore the role of
community participation and small-scale collective action in public
health and health promotion. It pays particular attention to the
psycho-social processes underlying the impact of collective action on
health, and the mechanisms through which community development
approaches may lead not only to improved health, but also to
transformatory social action. Our starting assumption is that efforts
to promote health and to reduce disease need to combine top down and
bottom up approaches. Whilst the primary focus of the course will be
the bottom up dimension, emphasis will be continually be laid on the
inter-dependence of these two levels of action and analysis.
Flyer about the
programme (pdf file)
or request a hard copy from
Community
Psychology in UK Higher Education Web Page maintained by
Paul
Duckett, Manchester Metro University - growing collection of resources.
West
Midlands Community and Critical Psychology Special Interest Group
Critical
Community Psychology at the University of Stirling
- no current web page, but here is
address for David
Fryer:
Proceedings
of the 1999 UK Community Psychology Conference, Manchester
(Proceedings
of the previous conference can be found in Clinical
Psychology Forum
No 122, December 1998)
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