In this unique handbook, experts team up to explain the many innovative ways psychology is being applied to promote social justice. The wide-ranging, three-volume work addresses such significant issues as social justice ideology and critical psychology, war and trauma, poverty and classism, environmental justice, and well-being and suffering. It showcases approaches for integrating social justice into psychology, and it examines psychology's application of social justice within special populations, such as sexual minorities, youth, women, disabled persons, prisoners, older adults, people of color, and many others.
Chapter authors represent a diversity of perspectives, making the handbook an ideal resource for those who want information on a specific concern as well as for those looking for an introduction to the subject as a whole. Combining the practical with the theoretical, the work provides culturally sensitive tools that can effectively combat injustices locally and globally.
About the Author: Chad V. Johnson, PhD, is associate professor of human relations, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, and a project director in the Center of Applied Research for Nonprofit Organizations at the University of Oklahoma.
Harris L. Friedman, PhD, is a Florida-licensed psychologist specializing in clinical psychology and organizational development/consulting.
Jeannette Diaz, PhD, is assistant professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia.
Zeno E. Franco, PhD, is assistant professor of community engagement at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine's Center for Healthy Communities and Research.
Bonnie Kaul Nastasi, PhD, is professor in the Department of Psychology at Tulane University.