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The social psychology of trauma : connecting the personal and the political / Orla T. Muldoon, University of Limerick.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2024.Description: xvii, 202 pagesISBN:
  • 9781009306997qebook
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 302 23/eng/20231103 MUL
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Contents:
1. The need for a social psychology of trauma; 2. The cost of trauma; 3. Traumatic experience is patterned; 4. Theorising the nature of trauma: integrating the personal and political; 5. Comfort in dark times; 6. Trauma, groups and political action; 7. Trauma, personal and political growth and change.
Summary: Many of us have been affected by trauma and struggle to manage our health and well-being. The social psychological approach to health highlights how social and cultural forces, as much as individual ones, are central to how we experience and cope with adversity. This book integrates psychology, politics, and medicine to offer a new understanding that speaks to the causes and consequences of traumatic experiences. Connecting the personal with the political, Muldoon details the evidence that traumatic experiences can, under certain conditions, impact people's political positions and appetite for social change. This perspective reveals trauma as a socially situated phenomenon linked to power and privilege or disempowerment and disadvantage. The discussion will interest those affected by trauma and those supporting them, as well as students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in social psychology, health and clinical psychology, and political science. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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1. The need for a social psychology of trauma; 2. The cost of trauma; 3. Traumatic experience is patterned; 4. Theorising the nature of trauma: integrating the personal and political; 5. Comfort in dark times; 6. Trauma, groups and political action; 7. Trauma, personal and political growth and change.

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Many of us have been affected by trauma and struggle to manage our health and well-being. The social psychological approach to health highlights how social and cultural forces, as much as individual ones, are central to how we experience and cope with adversity. This book integrates psychology, politics, and medicine to offer a new understanding that speaks to the causes and consequences of traumatic experiences. Connecting the personal with the political, Muldoon details the evidence that traumatic experiences can, under certain conditions, impact people's political positions and appetite for social change. This perspective reveals trauma as a socially situated phenomenon linked to power and privilege or disempowerment and disadvantage. The discussion will interest those affected by trauma and those supporting them, as well as students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in social psychology, health and clinical psychology, and political science. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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