The Social Psychology of Trauma (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009306980)

Many of us have been affected by trauma and struggle to manage our health and well-being. The social psychological approach to health highlights how social and cultural forces, as much as individual ones, are central to how we experience and cope with adversity. This book integrates psychology, politics, and medicine to offer a new understanding that speaks to the causes and consequences of traumatic experiences. Connecting the personal with the political, Muldoon details the evidence that traumatic experiences can, under certain conditions, impact people's political positions and appetite for social change. This perspective reveals trauma as a socially situated phenomenon linked to power and privilege or disempowerment and disadvantage. The discussion will interest those affected by trauma and those supporting them, as well as students, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in social psychology, health and clinical psychology, and political science. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Author: Orla T. Muldoon
ISBN-10: 1009306987
ISBN-13: 9781009306980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2024
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2025