The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Human Rights

This handbook illustrates the depth and breadth of human rights research, intervention models, and advocacy by psychologists.

Neal S. Rubin (Edited by), Roseanne L. Flores (Edited by)

9781108442817, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 October 2020

658 pages
24.4 x 16.9 x 3.4 cm, 1.12 kg

'By thoughtfully framing psychology within a human rights context, this handbook outlines the dangerous propensity towards fundamentalism, bigotry, and fake news, which radicalises the susceptible or makes them indifferent to the issues affecting us all. Such an application of ethical psychology can, indeed must, improve human society.' Saths Cooper, Past President, International Union of Psychological Science, and Extraordinary Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Written by psychologists, historians, and lawyers, this handbook demonstrates the central role psychological science plays in addressing some of the world's most pressing problems. Over 100 experts from around the world work together to supply an integrated history of human rights and psychological science using a rights and strengths-based perspective. It highlights what psychologists have done to promote human rights and what continues to be done at the United Nations. With emerging visions for the future uses of psychological theory, education, evidence-based research, and best practices, the chapters offer advice on how to advance the 2030 Global Agenda on Sustainable Development. Challenging the view that human rights are best understood through a political lens, this scholarly collection of essays shows how psychological science may hold the key to nurturing humanitarian values and respect for human dignity.

Part I. History of human rights: 1. How fear and hope shaped the universal declaration of human rights
2. Human rights developments from the universal declaration to the present
3. Connecting human rights and psychological ethics in a globalizing world
4. A historical narrative of psychology engaging human rights within the framework of the united nations
Part II. The intersection of psychology and human rights: 5. The intersection of psychology and human rights in addressing racism, discrimination and xenophobia
6. Poverty and human rights for children and youth through the lenses of psychology and sociology
7. Labor rights as human rights: the role of OECD's responsible business conduct guidelines
8. Who's culture? challenging the idea of an opposition between women's human rights and the right to culture
9. Human rights: a psychologist's path to “do no harm”
10. Child rights: why they matter and how to realize them
11. Human rights of persons with disabilities: convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and its nexus with mental health and psychosocial well-being
Part III. Contemporary issues, psychology and human rights: 12. Mental health and human rights
13. Cultivating our common humanity: reflections on freedom of thought, conscience, and religion
14. From refugees to immigrants: the role of psychology in the struggle for human rights
15. UN convention on the rights of the child and the sustainable development goals: implications for schools and educators
16. The global contributions of psychology to understanding and addressing the non-negotiability of human dignity and health equity
17. Human rights and psychology from indigenous perspectives
18. Human trafficking: vulnerabilities, human rights violations, and psychological consequences
19. Human rights seen through a cultural lens: Africa and Asia
20. Human rights and well-being of older persons
21. Reproductive justice, psychology, and human rights
22. Psychology and the global human rights agenda on sexual orientation and gender identity
23. Psychosocial features of movements that have advanced human rights
24. Principles of care of survivors of organized violence in a global society
25. Mental health and psychosocial support humanitarian settings: protecting and promoting human rights
26. Children and violence across the lifespan: a global and socioecological perspective
27. Psychology and human rights in the age of genomics and neuroscience
28. Behavioral insights, public policy and human rights
29. From human resources to human rights: tools for humanitarian work psychology
30. Climate change: a challenge to human rights, justice, equality, and human well-being
Part IV. Teaching, research, and training in psychology and human rights: 31. Liberation psychology and human rights
32. Education of psychologists for human rights awareness, accountability and action
33. Conducting psychology across borders: maintaining scientific rigor and safeguarding human rights
34. Diversity in psychology education & training: a human rights imperative for a global inclusive psychology
35. Preparing future generations: critical considerations and best practices in training psychologists about the human rights of sexually and gender-diverse people and communities
Part V. Future directions: 36. Human rights and reconciliation: theoretical and empirical connections
37. The Australian psychological society's apology to aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people: going beyond the apology in the teaching and training of psychologists
38. The role of scientific societies in promoting and protecting human rights and the example of the American psychological association
39. Human rights, psychology, and artificial intelligence
40. Psychology, human rights, and the implementation of the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

Subject Areas: International organisations & institutions [LBBU], Human rights [JPVH], International relations [JPS], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Child & developmental psychology [JMC]