Psicologia di Comunità

Community Psychology UK + elsewhere
www.compsy.org.uk

....recently:
1 BRINGING TOGETHER THEORY & PRACTICE
A Collaborative Community Psychology Event. (Combining a UK Community Psychology Network and a Cambuslang Community Event)
Stirling: Scotland, Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd March 2002 full details

2 Mark Burton, Liberation Social Psychology - learning from Latin America - Community and Organisational Psychology Seminar, 27 Feb. 2002, Manchester Metropolitan University, Hathersage Rd., Manchester. More info on liberation social psychology. read notes of talk (Word97)updated version posted 16/3/02

3 Carolyn Kagan's inaugural professorial lecture at Manchester Metropolitan University : 30 January 2002
Making the Road by Walking It... some possibilities for a community social psychology,
read the text on line!!

4 Isaac Prilleltensky 19 2002
Psychological and Political Well-being: Dialectics and Directions
Workshop at MMU on Tuesday 19th March pm read prepub draft paper that covers this material
see below for Isaac's web pages

Community Psychology in the UK

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

journal page
Community, Work and Family 2002 Individual Subscription Rate only: US$88/£55

Proceedings of the 1999 UK Community Psychology Conference, Manchester

(Proceedings of the previous conference can be found in Clinical Psychology Forum No 122, December 1998)

........................................................................................................................................................................................ Manchester
    Download leaflet about community psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University:.rtf format   word97 format   .pdf format
    Community Psychology teaching, research and practice at Manchester
    and see also
    Community Psychology Development at MMU (IOD newsletter)

Community Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University MSc level: (modules on MSc programme)

for information on new MSc in Community Psychology Enquiries to S.Crilly@mmu.ac.uk

Community Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University BSc level

The Community and Organisational Psychology Research Group at Manchester
Metropolitan University

General enquiries about Community Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University: by email

Publications by Carolyn Kagan and Mark Burton

Publications list: Community and Organisational Psychology Research Group: Manchester Metropolitan
University

Current Projects Link to some of Carolyn Kagan's projects

................................................................................................................................................. Other UK
Critical Community Psychology at the University of Stirling

Community Psychology at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle

Community Psychology Network (UK) Now has a web site - maintained by University of Stirling

Community Psychology elsewhere

Europe
European Community Psychology Network

4th European Congress of Community Psycholgy, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 November, 2002. details

America (the name of a continent)

V CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE PSICOLOGÍA SOCIAL DE LA LIBERACIÓN, Guadalajara, México, Noviembre 27, 28 y 29 de 2002
5th International Congress of Social Psychology of Liberation, Guadalajara, México, 27-29 Nov. 2002. detailsnote - the language of this conference will be Spanish, but some limited transalation help can be given to presenters.

     ...................................................................................................................................................................................... South
     Venezuelan Community Internet project - in French (we did have a link to the site in Spanish , but it seems to be
     currently unavailable, but here is a brief summary)

This project has been developed with the support of Community Psychologists in Caracas in conjunction with the Ateneo de Caracas, a prestigious arts project. Many of the children and young people involved are living in the refuges created after the mudslide disaster in December 1999 that killed maybe 50.000 people, and left many more homeless in the State of Vargas, and other locations.

       Brazil
       Brazilian 'Psychology and You' project (explanations and information on childhood and adolescence) - in Portuguese
      (See article in The Community Psychologist, Winter 2001 34, no. 1 - which also includes some papers
      on liberation psychology see also this link)
       More on Community Psychology in Brazil: article Voices from the south: the construction of
       Brazilian community social psychology   Maria de Fátima Quintal de Freitas Journal of
       Community & Applied Social Psychology Volume 10, Issue 4, 2000. Abstract.

........................................................................................................................................................................... Central
      El Salvador
     University of Central America (Universidad Centroaméricano José Simeón Cañas) Dept. of Psychology (in Spanish)
      Useful links to the Liberation Psychology of Ignacio Martín-Baró.

Society for Community Research and Action (APA Division 27)

Australia
Isaac Prilleltensky's excellent personal website - based at University of Victoria, Melbourne.

Wellness Promotion Website - (Isaac's unit)

Try this email contact for Community Psychology in Australia

Aoteroa/New Zealand
Community Psychology at Univ of Waikato

Do please let us have more details of sites in Australasia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Canada, Asia, etc.

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Some other stuff of interest (...well we find it interesting!) and general relevance to community psychology
Building Commmunity, Collaboration, and Consensus    useful web based guide to methods (USA)

Report on 4th International Conference on Liberation Social Psychology: Guatemala City November 2001

The Journal: Community, Work and Family edited from MMU
by Carolyn Kagan and Sue Lewis
Landless Workers Movement: Brazil    Inspiring social movement - state of the art educational and literacy work, intentional communities, struggle against the rich, etc., etc.

Pretty Boy Inc.   A compilation of young people's writings, from a youth project in Manchester
HAZE Project- Health Action Zone evaluation.
The International Association for Community Development (IACD) is an international non-profit, non-government membership organisation for people working in or supporting community development.
North West Collaborative Group for Learning Disability (intellectual disability) Research - reports, links, digests, events - emphasis on broadening the boundaries of what counts as research, and who does it.
The Centre for Systems Studies: University of Hull
David Smail's homepage. Some useful links on power and psychology from a veteran British radical (a bit psychotherapeutically orientated for us, however!).
Community toolbox     Useful resources.
Race and Class / Institute of Race Relations:   good source of material on struggles against racism, xenophobia, and imperialism / globalisation.