Giving psychology away: We believe that research must serve the communities in which we are embedded and be used for action.
We are a research collective, working at the intersections of community and clinical psychology, and quantitative and qualitative methods. We collaborate across disciplines and partner with communities to develop our research. We use diverse, applied, strengths-based, community-engaged methods to answer questions that our communities care about.
Our diverse team shares the values of social justice, inclusion, community, resilience, empowerment, and wellness. We examine topics that aim to support the multidimensional well-being of community members who those in power have attempted to marginalize, wittingly or unwittingly. We seek to support multidimensional well-being through interventions at multiple levels – from policy change to community-based prevention and promotion to individual intervention. We aim to identify and support the development, implementation, and evaluation of policies and programs that support inclusion and empowerment of diverse community members, as opposed to tolerance or mere integration.
In the words of George Miller, former American Psychological Association president, we can imagine nothing “that would be more relevant to human welfare, and nothing that could pose a greater challenge to the next generation of psychologists, than to discover how best to give psychology away” and we work actively to give psychology away in our work each day. We invite you to join us.
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