Dear Helen,
Thanks for your post. I think you are proposing to tackle a set of difficult and problematic but very interesting and important issues. I strongly recommend you to contact Dr Kesi Mahendran who is based at the Open University ( http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=Kesi_Mahendran )Kesi's PhD engaged in innovative ways with many of the issues you are proposing to explore. Kesi's thesis would be good reading but other shorter publications would no doubt be enlightening.
I don't think Kesi is on this list and that she is more likely to think of her work as social psychological than community but it is excellent work and very relevant to young people; social in/exclusion; identity.
I have papers of my own about community critical psychology approaches to unemployment which I will send separately and Rachael Fox (a list member) has done great community critical psychological work with young people excluded from school.
Good luck!
David
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Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] youth and social exclusion
Hello,
this is my first post so I hope it works...
I'm a second year trainee clinical psychologist currently in the throes of putting together a thesis proposal. I'm interested in to what extent young people who the government likes to term 'NEET' (not in education, employment or training) experience themselves as 'socially excluded' and what meaningful 'inclusion' is to them... I was also wondering if any of this could be applied to the construct of 'identity'...the end product would hopefully be a more meaningful measure of 'social inclusion' although that is not within the scope of my project...
I'm quite new to the area of community psychology and am interested to learn about the models used in CP which could be applied to an area such as this.
I'm not sure where to start although I've been reading up on the role of power, but I'm wondering if there was anything else that would fit?
I'd be very grateful for any of your words of wisdom!
With Best Wishes,
Helena Mannion
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