Anti-Poverty Psychology

by Stuart C. Carr

Book Overview

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. Some of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149390194X
• ISBN13: 9781493901944
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"