Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era [Paperback]

This book explores the concept of socially-responsible psychology in a global age and how it might be used to organize, integrate and bring enhanced focus a field that has the potential to contribute to solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. In this volume, the editors explore the central and defining features of socially-responsible psychology, challenges that this work would face, and the mechanisms and processes by which psychological work could be synergistically integrated with the work of other disciplines.? For this purpose, the volume also examines a variety of factors currently that limit psychology in carrying out this goal.

This book explores the features of socially-responsible psychology, details the challenges that this work faces, and examines the mechanisms and processes by which psychological work could be synergistically integrated with other disciplines.Part I: Central dimensions of rethinking a socially responsible psychology for a global era.- Focusing psychology on the global challenge: Achieving a sustainable future.- Psychology, Culture and a Global Perspective.- Key Global Documents that Provide the Ethical Underpinnings and Guiding Moral Vision for This Volume.- A Vision of Psychology in an Explicit Normative Context.-??Toward a Psychological Science of Globalization, A Global Community Psychology.- Transforming a limited social function into a viable global action agenda.- A Historical Perspective.- Guiding Prevalent Assumptions and Contemporary Psychology.- Psychological Impact of Prevailing and Unexamined Guiding Assumptions.- Beyond Prevailing Assumptions: Developing a Global Action Agenda.- Practices of Psychological Inquiry: The Global Challenge.- From Empiricist Foundations to Social Epistemology.- Socially Responsible Inquiry.- Psychology and Global Impact: A Collective Delusion?.- In Conclusion: Recommendations.- Toward socially responsible clinical practice suited to the needs of global commlƒ4