Critical community psychology

In the U.K. critical community psychology, although difficult to define, has come to encompass many of the following ideas as outlined by Guy Holmes Holmes, G (2010) Psychology in the Real World: Community-based groupwork. PCCS Books. :

•	Placing people in their social contexts, focusing analysis and interventions on the social causes of distress and correcting the individualistic bias in psychology

•	Sharing ideas and valuing diversity of knowledge

•	Learning from and working collaboratively alongside (rather than doing things to) others

•	Analysing the impacts of power and disempowerment

•	Questioning whose interests are served by various theories, policies and practices

•	Focussing help on people in society who have been marginalised and oppressed

•	Creating and nurturing self-supporting systems or communities

•	Resisting oppression, silencing and social injustice

•	Promoting social change

•	Engaging in participatory and action research that takes its lead from others and encompasses qualitative methods (rather than research that tests theories devised by experts).