{"product_id":"liberation-practices-9781138791138","title":"Liberation Practices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberation psychology is an approach that aims to understand wellbeing within the context of relationships of power and oppression, and the sociopolitical structure in which these relationships exist. \u003ci\u003eLiberation Practices: Towards Emotional Wellbeing Through Dialogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eexplores how wellbeing can be enhanced through dialogue which challenges oppressive social, relational and cultural conditions and which can lead to individual and collective liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaiwo Afuape and \u003cb\u003eGillian Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e have brought together a variety of contributors, from a range of mental health professions and related disciplines, working in different settings, with diverse client groups. \u003ci\u003eLiberation Practices\u003c\/i\u003e is a product of multiple dialogues about liberation practices, and how this connects to personal and professional life experience. Contributors offer an overview of liberation theories and approaches, and through dialogue they examine liberatory practices to enhanc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiberatory approaches to nourishing psychological and community well-being are being crafted on every continent, attending to the needs, challenges, and visions of particular local communities. Afaupe and Hughes’ edited volume offers readers an important look at how liberation psychology is being articulated and practiced in a diverse variety of community and clinical settings in the U.K. In doing so, the inspiring work that is featured will help practitioners perceive the interdependence of the social and the psychological and be able to link resistance to oppression with helping to cultivate settings where creativity, emancipatory dialogue, and social transformation thrive. \u003ci\u003eLiberation Practices \u003c\/i\u003ewill also help to open the imagination of cultural workers beyond the UK, contributing to transnational efforts to articulate a broad range of libertory healing practices that are available for contextualized improvisation with local communities suffering in the face of neoliberal globalization. - \u003cstrong\u003eMary Watkins\u003c\/strong\u003e, Ph.D., Author of \u003ci\u003eToward Psychologies of Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond liberation psychology and above praxis: A new way to liberate our own practices - \u003cstrong\u003eMaritza Montero\u003c\/strong\u003e, Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela Central University)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Introductory Chapters.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ci\u003eHughes, Afuape,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eIntroducing Ourselves. \u003ci\u003eHughes, Afuape,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eHistorical Development of Liberation Practices. \u003ci\u003eHughes, Afuape, Patel\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLooking Further at ‘Liberation’; A Critical Perspective. Part II: Working With Young People. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eClennon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eHoldin' On: Using Music Technology as a Tool of Cultural Liberation With Respect to Performing Masculinities at a Young Offenders' Institution.\u003ci\u003e Hughes, Afuape, \u003c\/i\u003eWhat’s Our Story: Centralising Young People’s Experiences of Gangs, Crews, and Collectives, to Develop Services That Promote Wellbeing. \u003ci\u003eWren\u003c\/i\u003e, A Clinical Service For Gender Non-Conforming Young People: What Can a Liberation Psychology Perspective Contribute? \u003ci\u003eClayton, Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e, The Use of Film and Creative Media to Liberate Young Refugee and Asylum Seeking People From Disempowering Identities - A Dialogical Approach. \u003cb\u003ePart III:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWorking with Adults. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eClennon, Bradley, Afuape and Horgan,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"Keeping it Real\": Oppression, Liberation, Creativity and Resistance. \u003ci\u003eByrne, Tungana, Upenyu, Monika, Devota, Janet, Fay, Rose, Rukia, Wonderful, Patience, Becky, Mary, Hope, Lizzy, Linda, Barbie, Uwamaria. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Women Can Build a Nation. Our Disease, HIV, Cannot Stop us to be Mothers Because we are the Mothers of the Nations’: A Liberation Approach. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eCastro Romero\u003c\/i\u003e, Liberatory Praxis Alongside Elders. Nylund, Waddle, Breaking Out of the Gender Binary: Liberating Transgender Prisoners.\u003cb\u003e Part IV: Teaching and Practice Within Wider Systems. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eHughes, Bisimwa,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eHard to Reach Services? Liberating Ourselves From the Constraints of Our Practice. \u003ci\u003eCastro Romero\u003c\/i\u003e, Teaching Liberation Psychology. Peña and Garcia, \u003cb\u003eA Story of Political Consciousness and Struggle Across Time and Place. Part V: Issues and Dilemmas. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfonu, Kovacova, Unwin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Is it Possible to Take a Liberation Approach as a Clinical Psychology Trainee? \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfuape, Afuape,\u003c\/i\u003e Is\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePsychoanalysis a Liberation Approach? African Sisters in Dialogue. \u003ci\u003eKagan, Burton,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eTowards and Beyond Liberation Psychology. Part VI: Reflections on Practice. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoane, Hughes and Afuape\u003c\/i\u003e, A Passion For Change: Liberation Practices and Psychology\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019525718359,"sku":"9781138791138","price":41.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138791138.jpg?v=1750780530","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liberation-practices-9781138791138","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}