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Author Carr, Stuart C.

Title Anti-poverty psychology / Stuart C. Carr
Published New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages)
Series International and cultural psychology
International and cultural psychology series.
Contents Levels -- Poverty -- Personality -- Organizations -- Places -- Community -- Markets -- Mediation -- Nexus -- Aid -- Mobility -- Systems
Summary Psychology has focused more on personalities in poverty -- pathologizing -- than on contexts for poverty reduction (Pick & Sirkin, 2010). As a result, the discipline has inadvertently sequestered and isolated itself, and its potential contribution, from poverty reduction initiatives - globally and locally. In recent years, there have been major developments in both the scope and depth of psychological research on global development issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Poverty -- Psychological aspects.
Poverty -- psychology
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
Poverty -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781461463030
1461463033
1461463025
9781461463023
9781299337237
1299337236