Critical community psychology
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In the U.K. critical community psychology, although difficult to define, has come to encompass many of the following ideas as outlined by Guy Holmes[1]:
• Placing people in their social contexts, focusing analysis and interventions on the social causes of distress and correcting the individualistic bias in psychology
• Sharing ideas and valuing diversity of knowledge
• Learning from and working collaboratively alongside (rather than doing things to) others
• Analysing the impacts of power and disempowerment
• Questioning whose interests are served by various theories, policies and practices
• Focussing help on people in society who have been marginalised and oppressed
• Creating and nurturing self-supporting systems or communities
• Resisting oppression, silencing and social injustice
• Promoting social change
• Engaging in participatory and action research that takes its lead from others and encompasses qualitative methods (rather than research that tests theories devised by experts).
