Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice, Paperback

Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice guides readers through the origins and development of liberation psychology, its methods, its manifestation in clinical practice, its potential future applications, and its relation to social justice activism and movements.

This book provides an understanding of liberation psychology that can enhance the work of all psychologists, regardless of theoretical or professional orientation, by increasing awareness of discrimination and inequality, affirming cultural identities, and promoting social change to help alleviate human suffering.

About author(s):

Lillian Comas-Diaz, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University. The author of over a hundred publications, Dr. Comas-Díaz is also the coeditor of Latina Psychologists: Thriving in the Cultural Borderlands, Womanist and Mujerista Psychologies, and Psychological Health of Women of Color. Dr. Comas-Díaz is the founding editor of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45 of the American Psychological Association). She is an associate editor of the American Psychologist.

Edil Torres Rivera, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Counseling, Educational Leadership, Educational and School Psychology; and Director of the Latinx Studies program at Wichita State University, Kansas. His primary research focuses include complexity and the use of indigenous healing techniques as a necessary element in psychological work with ethnic minority populations in the United States. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology and is the editor of the Interamerican Journal of Psychology. Visit https: //etorresrivera.wixsite.com/elmaestro