Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era

Part I: Central dimensions of rethinking a socially responsible psychology for a global era.- Focusing psychology on the global challenge: Achieving a sustainable future.- Psychology, Culture and a Global Perspective.- Key Global Documents that Provide the Ethical Underpinnings and Guiding Moral Vision for This Volume.- A Vision of Psychology in an Explicit Normative Context.- Toward a Psychological Science of Globalization, A Global Community Psychology.- Transforming a limited social function into a viable global action agenda.- A Historical Perspective.- Guiding Prevalent Assumptions and Contemporary Psychology.- Psychological Impact of Prevailing and Unexamined Guiding Assumptions.- Beyond Prevailing Assumptions: Developing a Global Action Agenda.- Practices of Psychological Inquiry: The Global Challenge.- From Empiricist Foundations to Social Epistemology.- Socially Responsible Inquiry.- Psychology and Global Impact: A Collective Delusion?.- In Conclusion: Recommendations.- Toward socially responsible clinical practice suited to the needs of global community.- Global Community Psychology: Becoming Counselors of the World.- Central Values and Priorities Underlying Current Western Clinical Training and Practice.- Morality, Moral Relativism, and Psychotherapy.- Psychotherapy and the Cost of War.- Tension Between Current Clinical Values and Priorities and the Core Values Articulated in the UDHR and the Earth Charter.- Some Recent Developments Toward Global Maturity in Clinical Practice.- Systemic and Policy Shifts Needed to Enhance Social and Global Responsibility in Clinical Practice.- Conclusion and Recommendations.- Toward Social Health for a Global Community.-Parallel Global Processes: Fragmentation of Human Consciousness and Society, and Global Unification Around Issues of Social Justice.- Early Understanding of Social Health.- First Systemic Approach to Social Health: Erich Fromm.- Toward a Complex Systems Approach to Social Health.- The Need for Balance of Love, Reason, and Faith in Human Affairs.- Emerging Possible Early Definition of Social Health.- Social Health As A Process of Unity in Diversity.- Summary and Conclusions.- Toward Cultivating Socially Responsible Global Consciousness.- Developmental Reconstructions of Self-Identity.- Consciousness as a Focal Point of Psychological Study.- Centrality of Moral Character and Choice in Development.- Further Role for Psychology and Psychologists in Promoting the Growth and Transformation of Consciousness.- Part II: Pressing Global Issues.- Toward a Psychology of Nonviolence.- Definitions.- Ontological Assumptions.- Effectiveness vs. Fruitfulness of Nonviolent Civil Resistance.- Psychology and the Military.- A Conceptual Framework.- Future Psychological Directions.- Toward Racial Justice.- The Racial Perceptual Divide.- The Racial Reality of Policing Practices.- The Criminal In-Justice System.- Contemporary Racism.- The Sociopolitical Context.- Moving Toward Equity and Justice.- Recommendations.- Overcoming Discrimination, Persecution, and Violence Against Women.- Oppression.- The Relational Self.- Challenging Silence: The Importance of Counter-Narratives to Gender Ideologies.- Conclusions and Further Recommendations.- Poor People, Poor Planet: The Psychology of How We Harm and Heal Hummanity and Earth.- The Role of Psychological Processes in Economic Justice and Socio-Environmental Sustainability.- The Centrality of Poverty in Economic Growth, Environmental Decline, and Community Suffering.- The Moral, Psychological and Environmental Dilemma of Poverty.- Changing the Structures Underlying Poverty and Environmental Harm.- What Psychology Can Do to Deter Our Harmful Ways.- Where There is Psychology is There Hope?.- Processes in the Development of Individual and Collective Consciousness and the Role of Religious and Spiritual Communities.- Socially Responsible Psychology and the Development of Dialectical Thinking.- Social Contexts and Dialectical Praxis.- Socially Responsible Psychology and the Role of Religious and Spiritual Communities.- Spiritual Ethic for Global Governance: Interreligious Efforts.- Toward the Integration of Materialistic and Spiritual Ontologies, Epistemologies, and Praxiologies in the Quest for a Common Foundation.