Psychology for Social Workers

Psychology for Social Workers is designed to help qualifying and practising social workers to understand and counteract the impact of discrimination, work in an ethnically sensitive way and demonstrate an awareness of ways to combat both individual and institutional racism through anti-racist practice.

Lena Robinson is Professor of Social Work at the University of the West of Scotland, UK.

Chapter 1 The black perspective in psychology; Chapter 2 Forming impressions of people; Chapter 3 The emergence of a black perspective in group work; Chapter 4 The black Family; Chapter 5 Black identity development; Chapter 6 Educational achievement and the black child; Chapter 7 Black people and mental health issues; Chapter 8 Conclusion;