PSYCHOLOGISTS AS SOCIAL CHANGE AGENTS

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13 hours ago
Evadney Jumpp
RE: Discussion – Week 2
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PSYCHOLOGISTS AS SOCIAL CHANGE AGENTS
Social change movements have had a significant impact on the field of psychology. As a result of these movements, psychologists have become aware of their power to bring about social change. The American Psychological Association states the importance of psychologists working as “social interventionists” (Apa.org, 2010) in its code of conduct. The code states: “Psychologists respect and protect civil and human rights and the central importance of freedom of inquiry and expression in research, teaching, and publication.”
The civil rights movement of the sixties gave psychologists a lot of avenues of research. It was through this research that the present role of psychologists as social interventionists was developed. According to Little (2012), the Civil Rights movement helped define a path for social psychologists. For example, the development of racial thinking in youth is explained through research in social psychology. Little (2012) writes: “Social psychologists have also given very fruitful attention to the ways in which racial attitudes and schemata are reproduced in young people — the more developmental side of racial thinking.”
I believe psychologists have a professional and ethical responsibility to bring about positive social change. This is because psychologists are in a unique position to understand the collective psyche of a community. They can then act as social change agents. For example, psychologists can work to improve social justice in a community. Psychologists can “integrate social justice into counseling psychology”, and even in an academic setting they can help “train the next generation of counseling psychology professionals as social justice change agents” (Liu et al, 2008).

References
Apa.org (2010). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. Retrieved from: https://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx.
Little, D. (2012). Social sciences and the civil rights movement. Retrieved from: https://understandingsociety.blogspot.ca/2012/09/social-sciences-and-civil-rights.html.
Liu, W., Ali, S., Mahmood, A., Arguello, J. (2008). Social justice and applied psychology: practical ideas for training the next generation of psychologists. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology 1(2), 1-13.

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