Overcoming Trauma,
Building Cultures of Peace
presenters
  •   Latika Mangrulkar, MSW, ACSW, is a specialist in immigrant trauma. She is currently Secretary of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR).

    PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
    "BUILDING CULTURES OF PEACE WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE"
    PLAYS A LEADING ROLE
    IN FIGHTING PSYCHOLOGIST PARTICIPATION IN TORTURE
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  •   Sylvia Plowright is a member of the Sonoma County Mental
    Health Board. She is a veteran "client/survivor" activist and has a special interest in peer trauma work.
    • date — Thursday, May 1, 2008
    time — 2PM to 3:30PM
    place — Room D-105 Drama
    SAN JOSE CITY COLLEGE

    BEYOND LEARNED HELPLESSNESS, TOWARDS A NEW VIEW

    BEHAVING  Do we manage the behavior of trauma survivors so they will "behave?" Or do we upgrade our "advocacy against trauma" and construct a world where sensible and sensitive people become "possible?"

    CREATIVE MALADJUSTMENT  In 1967 Martin Luther King, Jr. told the American Psychological Association that the behavioral scientist should learn to embrace and nurture "creative maladjustment," based on the civil rights values of "freedom" and "dignity." He was assassinated, and behavioral science today lags in this respect. Today however the "social justice" psychologists are working for an "Ethical APA" and the "client/survivor" people are promoting "creative maladjustment."


    sponsor:  Mental Health Client Association of San Jose City College
    MHCA@BATSTAR.NET   INFO:  PHIL 260-1294
    with support from S.J.C.C. Associated Students