Human Rights Education for Psychologists

Informationen zum Autor Polli Hagenaars is a licensed psychotherapist and trainer for diversity policy with her own institute, C5, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Diversity and non-discrimination have been major themes throughout her professional career, including combating racism in the educational system, and teaching transcultural pedagogy at university colleges. Marlena Plavic started her psychological career dealing with the consequences of human rights violations while working with refugees and displaced persons from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. She teaches at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia and takes part in various community projects. Nora Sveaass is professor emerita at the University of Oslo, Norway with research focusing on refugees, rehabilitation of victims of torture and transitional justice. She was Chair of the Human Rights Committee in the Norwegian Psychological Association from 1998 to 2018 and currently is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. Ulrich Wagner is a professor emeritus of social psychology at the Philipps-University Marburg in Germany. His research focuses on the improvement of intergroup relations. It is especially concerned with the reduction of ethnic prejudice, discrimination and violence as well as the promotion of intergroup acceptance and tolerance. Tony Wainwright is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests are ethics, human rights, climate change and psychology. He is concerned with the effect that human activity has environmentally, and its impact on human rights and the lives of the plants and animals with which we share the world. Klappentext This book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice. It is essential reading for professional psychologists as part of continuing professional development and those in training and taking psychology courses. Zusammenfassung This book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice. It is essential reading for professional psychologists as part of continuing professional development and those in training and taking psychology courses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface Glossary Part I: A human rights based-and-oriented psychology Chapter 1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Foundations for a human rights based-and-oriented psychology Polli Hagenaars and Ava Thompson Chapter 2. Human rights: how do they matter for the profession of psychology? Nora Sveaass and Michael Wessells Chapter 3. Main human rights instruments and bodies, relevant for psychologists' interventions Manfred Nowak and Anna Zenz Chapter 4. Human Rights: Cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives Rama Charan Tripathi Chapter 5. Critical human rights-based approach to applied psychology: Context and power Nimisha Patel Part II: Psychology and social accountability Chapter 6. Human rights and professional identity George Ulrich and Tony Wainwright Chapter 7. Use and misuse of psychological science, knowledge and research Tony Wainwright and Giovanna Leone Chapter 8. Playing together: Children's human rights and psychology Kerstin Söderström and Ragnhild Dybdahl Chapter 9. Human rights in business and employment: Promoting the right to decent work Kathleen Otto, Martin Mabunda Baluku, Ulrike Fasbender and Ute-Christine Klehe Chapter 10. Social accountability and action orientation: strengthening the policy making capacity of psychologist...

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Polli Hagenaars is a licensed psychotherapist and trainer for diversity policy with her own institute, C5, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Diversity and non-discrimination have been major themes throughout her professional career, including combating racism in the educational system, and teaching transcultural pedagogy at university colleges.

Marlena Plavi started her psychological career dealing with the consequences of human rights violations while working with refugees and displaced persons from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. She teaches at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia and takes part in various community projects.

Nora Sveaass is professor emerita at the University of Oslo, Norway with research focusing on refugees, rehabilitation of victims of torture and transitional justice. She was Chair of the Human Rights Committee in the Norwegian Psychological Association from 1998 to 2018 and currently is a member of the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture.

Ulrich Wagner is a professor emeritus of social psychology at the Philipps-University Marburg in Germany. His research focuses on the improvement of intergroup relations. It is especially concerned with the reduction of ethnic prejudice, discrimination and violence as well as the promotion of intergroup acceptance and tolerance.

Tony Wainwright is a clinical psychologist and senior lecturer at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests are ethics, human rights, climate change and psychology. He is concerned with the effect that human activity has environmentally, and its impact on human rights and the lives of the plants and animals with which we share the world.

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This book is designed to raise awareness of human rights implications in psychology, and provide knowledge and tools enabling psychologists to put a human rights perspective into practice. It is essential reading for professional psychologists as part of continuing professional development and those in training and taking psychology courses.

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Foreword

Preface

Glossary

Part I: A human rights based-and-oriented psychology

Chapter 1. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Foundations for a human rights based-and-oriented psychology Polli Hagenaars and Ava Thompson

Chapter 2. Human rights: how do they matter for the profession of psychology? Nora Sveaass and Michael Wessells

Chapter 3. Main human rights instruments and bodies, relevant for psychologists' interventions Manfred Nowak and Anna Zenz

Chapter 4. Human Rights: Cross-national and cross-cultural perspectives Rama Charan Tripathi

Chapter 5. Critical human rights-based approach to applied psychology: Context and power Nimisha Patel

Part II: Psychology and social accountability

Chapter 6. Human rights and professional identity George Ulrich and Tony Wainwright

Chapter 7. Use and misuse of psychological science, knowledge and research Tony Wainwright and Giovanna Leone

Chapter 8. Playing together: Children's human rights and psychology Kerstin Söderström and Ragnhild Dybdahl

Chapter 9. Human rights in business and employment: Promoting the right to decent work Kathleen Otto, Martin Mabunda Baluku, Ulrike Fasbender and Ute-Christine Klehe

Chapter 10. Social accountability and action orientation: strengthening the policy making capacity of psychologists Elizabeth Lira

Part III: Human rights and professional practice

Chapter 11. Universal human rights: except for some Paul D'Alton

Chapter 12. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the challenge to treatment without consent of individuals with psychosocial disabilities Bernadette McSherry and Lisa Waddington

Chapter 13. Forced migration: psychological contributions that might help to improve the human rights situation Ulrich Wagner

Chapter 14. Indigenous communities facing environmental racism: Human rights, resilience, and resistance in Palestinian communities of the West Bank and the Mapuche of Chile Devin G. Atallah and Michael Ungar

Chapter 15. Torture and the role of the psychological prof…