What is Community Psychology about? Recognition Social change Prevention Alliances with Collaborative, Focus on

of social marginalised participative strengths groups, comm interests “… … effective and far reaching prevention needs organisational, institutional and social change. This is not only expensive but also involves conceding power and control, anathema to corporations and governments. ” Albee & Fryer, 2003 Being critical in psychology means:-• Criticising society: challenging the the oppression and exploitation that perpetrate inequalities and distress • Criticising psychology for its part in developing theories and practices which contribute to oppression. Thus psychology as a discipline has maintained rather than questioned the status quo and supported discrepancies in power that are to the advantage of particular groups and interests. We need to recognise social positions and “whose interests are being served by what is thought, written and done, ” (Fryer, Duckett & Pratt, 2004) in psychology and in the wider world