Community Psychology in Action Striving Towards Social Justice and Wellbeing in Challenging Times

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: An invitation to Participate: Striving towards social justice and wellbeing through community, research and action

(Rebecca Graber, Carl Harris, Suzanne Wilson and Maria Fernandes-Jesus)

Part 1: Homes and Movement

Chapter 2: Community resilience, sense of community and participation in the context of contemporary migration

(Terri Mannarini, Alessia Rochira and Evelyn De Simone)

Chapter 3: “Bem-vindos a Portugal”, they said. A community-engaged collaborative research on lived experiences of migrants and refugees

(Dora Rebelo, Cristina Santinho, Ana Stela Cunha, Alaa Kordia, Nina Amelung, Beatriz Gomes de Figueiredo, Micaela Gomes, Alexander Kweh, Carolina Coimbra, Karla Costa, Laura Brito, Landu Yanick Matondo and Dyoka Mukinay)

Chapter 4: ‘Count me in’: Participation and inclusion in the context of UK homelessness

(Bruno Basilio De Oliveira, Suzanne Elliot, Laura Hancox, Dani Harker-Brown, Joseph Murphy and Bryan Nash)

Part 2: Transforming Power

Chapter 5: Participatory Action Research (PAR) as a tool for liberation in the Community Psychology from Quilombos in Brazil

(James Ferreira Moura Junior, Ana Eugenio da Silva, Francisca Marleide Nascimento, João Luís Joventino do Nascimento, Mateus dos Santos Brito, Ana Leia Morais Cardoso, Claudia Andréa Mayorga Borges, Ana Luisa Teixeira de Menezes, Raquel Farias Diniz and Marina Passos Pereira Campos)

Chapter 6: Claiming our Voices, Choices and Rights: Challenging Political Peripherality through Community Psychology

(Suzanne Wilson, Katherine Jewell, Lynsey Crothwaite and Davinia Jackson)

Chapter 7: Action for Climate Justice: Community Psychology Tackling Climate Change in an Unjust World

(Maria Fernandes-Jesus, Carlie D. Trott, Brendon Barnes and Manuel Riemer)

Chapter 8: Climate community profiling by children and youth: Fostering collective (political) hope in community contexts

(Isabel Menezes, Clementina Rios, Sofia C. Pais and Pedro D. Ferreira)

Part 3: Crafting Connection

Chapter 9: Creative Relational Wealth Building in the Context of Caregiving

(Suzanne Wilson, Rebecca Graber, Katherine Jewell and Hannah Kessler)

Chapter 10: Using creative, embodied approaches to prevention of and recovery from substance misuse: a dialogue between research and practice

(Rebecca Graber, Raginie Duara, Sangeeta Goswami, Diptarup Chowdurya and Anna Madill)

Chapter 11: Surviving violence, surviving the system: secondary victimisation in the context of intimate partner violence

(Annalisa Cecconi, Carlo Tomasetto and Cinzia Albanesi)

Chapter 12: Challenges and opportunities faced by young people in European rural communities: The roles of community psychologists

(Francisco Simões and Elena Marta)

Part 4: Troubling Medicalisation: Perspectives from the UK

Chapter 13: Family Wellbeing, Community Psychology and Social Prescribing

(Amy Edwards-Smith, Sam Pywell, Fiona Routh, Koser Kahn and Natalie Hicks)

Chapter 14: Using photo-elicitation to gain an in-depth understanding of service user and staff experience: An ethical framework for mental health research

(Penn Smith and Anna Madill)

Chapter 15: Radical Healthcare: Community action to shape person-centered health care for trans and non-binary people

(Gray Hutchins)

Chapter 16: Promoting the use of community psychology in clinical psychology settings

(Carl Harris, Jan Bostock, Teresa Hagan, Alex Stirzaker and Juliet Young)

Conclusions

Chapter 17: Liberation without oppression: Reimagining hope, power and solidarity

(Maria Fernandes-Jesus, Suzanne Wilson, Rebecca Graber and Carl Harris)

Index

Biography

Suzanne Wilson is a Research Fellow in Social Inclusion and Community Engagement at the University of Lancashire (UK). The research agenda is to work with communities to identify effective and sustainable means of increasing community capital. This expanding portfolio of research focuses on working-class, coastal communities, often regarded as being ‘left-behind’.

Rebecca Graber is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of Chichester. Her funded research focuses on how supportive friendships and peer relationships contribute to psychosocial resilience and wellbeing in the face of challenges such as aging, socioeconomic marginalisation, substance addiction and LGBTQIA+ discrimination. She has formerly directed an MA in Community Psychology, has been a charity trustee, and co-founded a network for Jewish academic and professional staff.

Carl Harris is a white, British, male Clinical and Community psychologist with 30 years experience in the UK’s National Health Service. Based in Birmingham neighbourhoods, working in community regeneration and mental health prevention, he writes from a practitioner-researcher critical perspective with a focus on inequality. A member of Psychologists Against Austerity since 2010.

Maria Fernandes-Jesus is an Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Sussex (UK). Her research focuses on collective action, climate justice, climate-linked mobilities, migration justice, youth participation, community solidarity, and political imaginaries. She has been involved in several interdisciplinary, international and mixed-methods research projects related to these topics.