My Community, My Hope: Psychological Sense of Community in Ghana - Brossura

Andoh-Arthur, Johnny

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3659612081 ISBN 13: 9783659612084

Casa editrice: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Riassunto

Community plays vital roles in the life of its inhabitants. Particularly for adolescents', community serves as a key avenue for meeting basic psycho-social needs such as intimacy and belongingness as well as a platform for smooth negotiation of critical developmental challenges such as identity and potential development. These crucial roles of our communities are argued to have been on the decline in recent times leading to erosion of young people's psychological sense of their community. With an overview of African conception of community by some African Scholars and current models of sense of community emerging mainly from non Africans, this books aims to deepen understanding on how adolescents of Ghana perceive Psychological sense of community. Through Interpretative Phenomenological Approach, Psychological sense of community among adolescents is perceived within the framework of the present physical and psychosocial attributes of the community in fostering belongingness and in inducing hope for a successful incorporation into the universal world. Increasing urbanisation in the city and pervasive traditional values in the rural areas are found to play unique roles.

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L'autore:

Johnny Andoh-Arthur, is from Anomabu, Ghana. He holds B.A.in Psychology and MPhil in Human Development (specialising in community Psychology) from University of Ghana and NTNU, Norway respectively. He is currently a PhD student at NTNU exploring cultural meanings of Suicide in Ghana through Qualitative Psychological Autopsy Approach. He is married.

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• Editore: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3659612081
• ISBN 13: 9783659612084
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 148