Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change

Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyler, Forrest B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:The Springer Series in Social Clinical Psychology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Cultures, Communities, Competence, and Change provides a transcultural psychosocial conception of the nature of individual and social activity. The author presents an integrated view of how people develop a psychosocially-based awareness of themselves and their milieus to shape what he refers to as their `internested' social systems. In so doing he challenges current deficit/prevention emphases in the helping disciplines and promotes a constructive, prosocial model of individual and social approaches to change
Physical Description:XVII, 481 p online resource
ISBN:9781475748994