“…In general, the field prioritizes interventions that address both the individual and the various contexts in which they live and work (Vera & Speight, 2003). In this vein, humanistic psychologists have recently contributed to the development of community action research methods that are “inherently activistic” (Goss & McInerney, 2016, p. 287; McInerney, 2016), theory on the practice of influential activists and movements (Selig, 2016), a philosophical grounding for social ethics (Robbins, 2016), a vision for possible socially just futures and a “good” society (Cooper, 2016), phenomenological research on social justice identity development (Dollarhide, Clevenger, Dogan, & Edwards, 2016), and connections between humanism and critical and queer theory (Goodrich, Luke, & Smith, 2016). In an analysis of the Black Lives Matter protest movement, Hoffman, Granger, Vallejos, and Moats (2016) argue,When the existential nature of social justice issues and the protest movements are better understood, the understanding of these movements deepen while concurrently demonstrating that within existential–humanistic psychology, we should be committed to engaging these issues.
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