Psychologies of liberation are emerging on every continent in response to the collective traumas inflicted by colonialism and globalization. The authors present the theoretical foundation and participatory methodologies that unite these radical interdisciplinary approaches to creating individual and community well-being. They move from a description of the psychological and community wounds that are common to unjust and violent contexts to engaging examples of innovative community projects from around the world that seek to heal these wounds. The creation of public homeplaces, and the work of liberation arts, critical participatory action research, public dialogue, and reconciliation are highlighted as embodying the values and hopes of liberation psychology. Drawing on psychoanalysis, trauma studies, liberation arts, participatory research, and contemporary cultural work, this book nourishes our understanding of and imagination about the kinds of healing that are necessary to the creation of more just and peaceful communities. In dialogue with cultural workers, writers, and visionaries from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Islands, Toward Psychologies of Liberation quickens a dialogical convergence of liberatory psychological theories and practices that will seed individual and community transformation.

A companion volume to "Diversity in the Classroom," this guide presents 13 cases designed to help individuals and groups reflect on teaching. Specifically, it offers the information needed to use these cases in structured professional development experiences.

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

In this innovative book two leading practitioners tell the stories of the people they have met as clients and how they, as therapists, tried to help them. Through compelling case studies, Peven and Shulman invite the reader into their thoughts and feelings about their clients, their processes and treatment techniques, and their subsequent successes and failures. The authors describe a cognitive, constructionist, interpersonal dynamic approach based primarily on the principles of Alfred Adler's Individual Psychology. The cases studies represent several different DSM-IV diagnostic categories, and the authors offer their own theoretical perspectives and treatment methods for each category.
With compassion, insight, and skill, the authors take complicated material and present it in a clearly written and easy to understand fashion.

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This manual retains Adler's concept that the life style of any individual is a singular pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that is unique to that individual and represents the context in which all specific manifestations must be considered.

Providing a means for assessing the life style and using the information in therapy, it explains what life style is, elements of the family constellation and its interpretation, early recollections and their interpretations, and means for obtaining data.

Psychologies of liberation are emerging on every continent in response to the collective traumas inflicted by colonialism and globalization. The authors present the theoretical foundation and participatory methodologies that unite these radical interdisciplinary approaches to creating individual and community well-being. They move from a description of the psychological and community wounds that are common to unjust and violent contexts to engaging examples of innovative community projects from around the world that seek to heal these wounds. The creation of public homeplaces, and the work of liberation arts, critical participatory action research, public dialogue, and reconciliation are highlighted as embodying the values and hopes of liberation psychology. Drawing on psychoanalysis, trauma studies, liberation arts, participatory research, and contemporary cultural work, this book nourishes our understanding of and imagination about the kinds of healing that are necessary to the creation of more just and peaceful communities. In dialogue with cultural workers, writers, and visionaries from Latin America, Africa, Asia, Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Islands, Toward Psychologies of Liberation quickens a dialogical convergence of liberatory psychological theories and practices that will seed individual and community transformation.

"A picture of how teachers canlearn to challenge one anotherto reach standards of excellencein their work"
--from the Foreword by Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Brandeis University

Mentoring Teachers Toward Excellence offers thirteen succinct cases of teachers who are going through the National Board Certification process. Each case highlights common challenges encountered in teacher mentoring relationships, such as working toward a vision of accomplished practice, maintaining personal and professional boundaries, working through personality conflicts, defusing negative group dynamics, providing constructive criticism, and more. These cases include the thoughts and feelings of the practitioner-writers as they describe each set of events, and are rich with detail and dialogue about the challenges encountered. Each case is accompanied by commentaries from educators who provide different perspectives on the dilemmas presented in the cases and teaching notes that analyze the central issues of the case. All of these compelling narratives provide the vicarious experience of walking in another's shoes and engaging in self-reflection. In group discussions, the cases are especially powerful, eliciting differing points of view to be aired and examined. For that reason, they are consciously designed to provoke discussion that is engaging, demanding, and intellectually exciting.