Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era

The progression is a logical one: in keeping with an era noted for advances toward greater equality and an irreversible trend toward globalization — but also marked with bigotry, persecution, and environmental destruction — psychology has developed the potential to heal large populations as well as individuals. Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era describes the changes necessary to address the systemic problems affecting an increasingly distressed world. This path-breaking resource challenges readers to rethink the basic and implicit assumptions of psychology, reframing the field in terms of its responsibility as a healing science and force for social justice, and elucidates the context that makes this paradigm shift so necessary. Contributors analyze not only central issues shaping the field, but a practical framework for a redefined discipline, with concepts such as socially responsible inquiry and clinical practice, and strategies for working with like-minded communities and institutions toward key objectives, among them:
• Achieving a sustainable future.
• Developing clinical practice suited to a global community.
• Attaining global consciousness in the context of societal health.
• Overcoming racism, sexism, and poverty.
• Healing the causes of human suffering and environmental harm.
• Conceptualizing and actualizing justice restoratively.
• Achieving a psychology of nonviolence. A volume with a clear moral vision, Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era is an affirmation of purpose and a call to action for psychologists to bring greater relevance to their profession towards building a shared just, humane and sustainable future.