Community psychology offers a framework for working with those marginalised by the
social system that leads to self-aware social change with an emphasis on value based,
participatory work and the forging of alliances. It is a way of working that is pragmatic
and reflexive, whilst not wedded to any particular orthodoxy of method. As such,
community psychology is one alternative to the dominant individualistic psychology
typically taught and practised in the high income countries. It is community psychology
because it emphasises a level of analysis and intervention other than the individual and
their immediate interpersonal context. It is community psychology because it is nevertheless
concerned with how people feel, think, experience and act as they work
together, resisting oppression and struggling to create a better world. (Burton et al.
2007, 219)