Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion by Laura Smith

Author:Laura Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2010-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Discovering and confronting these classist barriers has been just one aspect of the process of self-understanding and accountability that began during those years. It is a process that not only changes us as professionals, it changes us as people: For many of us, once we begin to see the structural workings of oppression, we can never not see it again. Once we begin to notice the ways that sociohistorical systems—racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism—have shaped our everyday thoughts and behaviors, it becomes difficult to coast along as though our good intentions absolve us of responsibility for them. My learning curve continues to be steep and multifaceted, and I have had the chance to continue it by extending it to my supervisory work with trainees in the context of poverty. In the next section, I offer five areas for growth that have been important to that work and my own learning.

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