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Table of Contents
- Introduction
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PART I: THINK!
- What is critical community psychology?
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- Core elements of a critical community psychology
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- The contested nature of community
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- Community as social ties
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PART II: ACT!
- Problem definition
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- Action planning
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- Action 1: furtherance of critical consciousness and creation of new forms of social settings
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- Action 2: Development of alliances, and accompaniment, advocacy and analysis of policy
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- Action 3: Archive research, policy analysis and development
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PART III: REFLECT!
- Evaluation
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- Change, influence and power
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- Roles, skills and reflections on learning for community psychologists
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- Critical disruption: Does critical community psychology have an adequate praxis?
