Anti-poverty psychology /
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 a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer,
©2013.
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Colección: | International and cultural psychology series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781461463030 1461463033 1461463025 9781461463023 9781299337237 1299337236 |