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Steve McKenna:
Independent Community Psychology Consultant (Retired)
Critical Community Psychology Doctoral Research
Carnegie Scholar 1998 - 2001
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Volume 14, Issue 6, Date: November/December 2004, Pages: 509-510
Steve McKenna
European Community psychology in theory, practice and praxis? - The European Network of Community Psychology (ENCP) fourth European congress of community psychology and business meeting, Barcelona, 2002 - three contrasting views
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Volume 13, Issue 3, Date: May/June 2003, Pages: 258-265
Jim Orford, Paul Duckett, Steve McKenna
McKenna, S (In Press) Review of Emler, N. (2001) Self-esteem: The Costs and Consequences of Low Self Worth. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, London Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
McKenna, S (In Press) Review of Rose, D. Ford, R. Lindley P. Gawith, L & The KCW Mental Health Monitoring Users� Group(2001). In Our Experience: User-focused Monitoring of Mental Health Services in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster health Authority. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
McKenna, S (2002) Review of Murray, A. Shepherd, G. Onyett, S. & Muijen M. More Than a Friend: The Role of Support Workers in Community Mental Health Services. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.12,2,142-3
McKenna, S & Fryer, D (2001) The Third European Conference on Community Psychology: A Scottish perspective The Community Psychologist. TCP. 34, 2. 10-12 Fryer, D.
McKenna, S.& Hamerton, H.(2000) Taking a Radical Stance: Comments on Prilleltensky and Nelson, the Commentaries and their Reply The Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 10,6 497-500
McKenna, S (2000) A community psychology praxitioner. The Community Psychologist. 33,4 22-23.
McKenna, S (2000) Towards a Conceptualisation of Power: a Critique of Power Mapping. In Kagan, C. (ed.) Collective Action and Social Change: Report of the National Community Psychology Conference, 1999. IOD Research Group: Manchester.
McKenna, S (1999) Review of How to Carry Out a Community Quality of Life Study: A Manual by Dennis Raphael, Brenda Steinmetz and Rebecca Renwick. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 9,4, 315
McKenna, S (1998) Review of Albee, G.W. and Gullotta, T. Primary Prevention Works. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 8,3, 241-242
Member of the European Network of Community psychologists
Co-Convener of the Scottish Network of Community Psychologists
Member of the Management Group of CTDU
Member of the Management Group of REACHOUT.
Member of the Co-ordinating Group of the Popular Education Forum for Scotland.
Co-Coordinator of RADPSYNET
Member of the Editorial Board of "RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY"
Member of the University Working Group on Development of Emergency Protocol for Mental Health
Member of The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
Member of The UK Evaluation Society
McKenna, S. (2000) Community Psychology Praxis: A Return to Radical Roots. to be presented at The III European Conference on Community Psychology. 11-13 Sept. 2000 Bergen, Norway. (abstract)
McKenna, S., Mahendran, K. and Fryer, D.(2000) Unemployment and cognitive behaviour therapy: a community and applied social psychological critique of a clinical psychological approach. Authors: McKenna, S., Mahendran, K. and Fryer, D. (University of Stirling) Presented by Steve McKenna at the joint Conference of the UK Community Psychology Network and the Race and Culture Special Interest Group of the BPS Clinical Psychology Section. 15-16 June 2000 (abstract)
McKenna, S. (2000) A Call for a Liberatory Praxis presented at the Popular Education Network Conference - Popular Education: Engaging the Academy. 16-18 June 2000 (abstract)
McKenna, S. (1999) Towards a Conceptualisation of Power presented at the National Community Psychology Conference, 7th & 8th January 1999. (abstract)
McKenna, S. (1999) An Applied Critical Community Psychology: A Work in Progress presented at the Critical Psychology and Action Research Conference, 12th - 15th July 1999. (abstract)
McKenna, S. (1999) Reconceptualising Psychological Distress presented at the 1999 Annual Psypag Conference, 20-22nd July. (abstract)
PPR: ASYLUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 14 JULY 2001 Manchester Liberation Theatre Workshop Liberation Theatre is a way of exploring issues relevant to marginalised and oppressed people. It is also a way to enable voices, of the marginalised and oppressed, to be heard that can feed into processes of change.
First National Conference of Survivor Workers Uk 28th February 2001. Manchester. "Survivor Workers Employed by Health Trusts and Partnerships" Invited discussant, with Jim Kelly (USA) at the Symposium entitled International Approaches to Community Psychology during The British Psychological Society's Centenary Annual Conference in Glasgow. Contributors included; Julian Rappaport (USA), Jim Orford (England), Heather Hamerton (New Zealand), Carolyn Kagan, David Fryer (Scotland).
McKenna, S., Stockton, E. and Fryer D. (2001) Health inequalities, stressors, competences and resources in relation to young people in rural Perth and Kinross: A community psychological perspective on relevance of inequality to the well-being of 12 to 25 year-olds in Perth & Kinross. (This unpublished Report is the result of research carried out for Perth & Kinross Health For All in 2001)
McKenna, S., Pratt R. and Fryer D. (2000) Cope Consultation Exercise: A Report. (This unpublished Report is the result of a consultation exercise carried out for the Caring Over People's Emotions Project (COPE) in Drumchapel, Glasgow in 2000)
RUTHERGLEN & CAMBUSLANG DRUG FORUM Peer awareness project. Development work aimed at enabling innovative methods of peer awareness raising into the issues surrounding drug misuse.
YOUNG PEOPLE & MENTAL HEALTH Working collaboratively with a group of young people in South Lanarkshire to develop a video that exploresd issues of mental health from the perspective of young people. The video was previewed during BRINGING TOGETHER THEORY & PRACTICE. March 2002.
SOUTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL, YOUTH LEARNING SERVICES Developing and implementing a Staff Development Programme based on Supported Reflexivity and Integrated Practice based Staff development across the service.
YOUTH PARTICIPATION PROJECT & RESPONSE FUND Using participative methods a keynote presentation was developed with young people involved in the Youth Participation Project in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire. The presentation was performed at the opening of the Cambuslang Community Conference on Social Inclusion in April 2000
CAMBUSLANG COMMUNITY RESOURCE UNIT Working collaboratively with young people in a community of high relative deprivation to explore the processes of change within their community. Using a wide range of expressive and theatre arts facilitating the creation of a production staged within the community in June 2000. The project was funded by Social Inclusion Partnership funding.
CAMBUSLANG HEALTH GROUP SEMINAR Young People and Mental Health: Whose problem is it anyway? Seminar on Mental Health, Poverty and Young People given to the Cambuslang Health Group, August 2000. This seminar can be accessed here CAMBUSLANG HEALTH GROUP SEMINAR
CAMBUSLANG AND RUTHERGLEN DRUGS FORUM "We Just Can't Say No" the development of a dramatic piece based on the highly participative development of an opportunity for Young People in Cambuslang and Rutherglen to inform adult members of the local community as well as strategic partners and policy planners at local and national levels of the expert views of young people on the issues surrounding drugs, drug misuse and both formal and informal drug education. This innovative project is pivotal to the emergence of "Liberation Theatre" as a discursive and a reciprocally consultative model for the inclusion of, in this instance, young people as both active citizens as well as key participants in the process of change in excluded communities.
CHANGE THEATRE. Consultant to the Youth Participation Project who are one of the key partners in the Change Theatre Project in Cambuslang.
46AR: The Emotions and Related Phenomena
4611: Introductory Psychology (First Semester)
4612: Introductory Psychology (Second Semester)
1999/2000 & 2000/2001 MSc Psychology and Health (Lectures: Community Psychological Approaches to Mental Health; David Fryer & Steve McKenna. )
Independent Community Psychology Consultant (Retired)
Critical Community Psychology Doctoral Research
Carnegie Scholar 1998 - 2001
Articles
Evolving minds videoJournal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Volume 14, Issue 6, Date: November/December 2004, Pages: 509-510
Steve McKenna
European Community psychology in theory, practice and praxis? - The European Network of Community Psychology (ENCP) fourth European congress of community psychology and business meeting, Barcelona, 2002 - three contrasting views
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Volume 13, Issue 3, Date: May/June 2003, Pages: 258-265
Jim Orford, Paul Duckett, Steve McKenna
McKenna, S (In Press) Review of Emler, N. (2001) Self-esteem: The Costs and Consequences of Low Self Worth. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, London Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
McKenna, S (In Press) Review of Rose, D. Ford, R. Lindley P. Gawith, L & The KCW Mental Health Monitoring Users� Group(2001). In Our Experience: User-focused Monitoring of Mental Health Services in Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster health Authority. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
McKenna, S (2002) Review of Murray, A. Shepherd, G. Onyett, S. & Muijen M. More Than a Friend: The Role of Support Workers in Community Mental Health Services. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.12,2,142-3
McKenna, S & Fryer, D (2001) The Third European Conference on Community Psychology: A Scottish perspective The Community Psychologist. TCP. 34, 2. 10-12 Fryer, D.
McKenna, S.& Hamerton, H.(2000) Taking a Radical Stance: Comments on Prilleltensky and Nelson, the Commentaries and their Reply The Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 10,6 497-500
McKenna, S (2000) A community psychology praxitioner. The Community Psychologist. 33,4 22-23.
McKenna, S (2000) Towards a Conceptualisation of Power: a Critique of Power Mapping. In Kagan, C. (ed.) Collective Action and Social Change: Report of the National Community Psychology Conference, 1999. IOD Research Group: Manchester.
McKenna, S (1999) Review of How to Carry Out a Community Quality of Life Study: A Manual by Dennis Raphael, Brenda Steinmetz and Rebecca Renwick. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 9,4, 315
McKenna, S (1998) Review of Albee, G.W. and Gullotta, T. Primary Prevention Works. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 8,3, 241-242
Areas of Active Involvement
Member of the Stirling Community Psychology Group.Member of the European Network of Community psychologists
Co-Convener of the Scottish Network of Community Psychologists
Member of the Management Group of CTDU
Member of the Management Group of REACHOUT.
Member of the Co-ordinating Group of the Popular Education Forum for Scotland.
Co-Coordinator of RADPSYNET
Member of the Editorial Board of "RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY"
Member of the University Working Group on Development of Emergency Protocol for Mental Health
Professional Associations
Graduate Member of the British Psychological SocietyMember of The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Division 27 of the American Psychological Association
Member of The UK Evaluation Society
Conference Presentations
McKenna, S (2000) The Scale of Psychological Distress. presented as part of Social Exclusion: Reaching Out: Including In Workshop by REACHOUT for the British Psychological Society - Scottish Branch Annual Conference 2000.McKenna, S. (2000) Community Psychology Praxis: A Return to Radical Roots. to be presented at The III European Conference on Community Psychology. 11-13 Sept. 2000 Bergen, Norway. (abstract)
McKenna, S., Mahendran, K. and Fryer, D.(2000) Unemployment and cognitive behaviour therapy: a community and applied social psychological critique of a clinical psychological approach. Authors: McKenna, S., Mahendran, K. and Fryer, D. (University of Stirling) Presented by Steve McKenna at the joint Conference of the UK Community Psychology Network and the Race and Culture Special Interest Group of the BPS Clinical Psychology Section. 15-16 June 2000 (abstract)
McKenna, S. (2000) A Call for a Liberatory Praxis presented at the Popular Education Network Conference - Popular Education: Engaging the Academy. 16-18 June 2000 (abstract)
McKenna, S. (1999) Towards a Conceptualisation of Power presented at the National Community Psychology Conference, 7th & 8th January 1999. (abstract)
McKenna, S. (1999) An Applied Critical Community Psychology: A Work in Progress presented at the Critical Psychology and Action Research Conference, 12th - 15th July 1999. (abstract)
McKenna, S. (1999) Reconceptualising Psychological Distress presented at the 1999 Annual Psypag Conference, 20-22nd July. (abstract)
Seminar Presentations
Gilmour, D., McKenna, C., & McKenna,S. We cant just say no: Young people finding ways to be heard on drugs issues. ESRC Research Seminar series - Interdisciplinary Youth Research : New Approaches POWER AND THE RESEARCH PROCESS Friday 22nd February 2002 Brunel University, MiddlesexWorshop Presentations
European Network of Community Psychologists. Workshop "L'impatto dei processi di globalization sullen community local" University of Lecce, Italy. 12th September, 2001. Co-ordinators: Bianca Gelli, University of Lecce & Caterina Arcidiacono, Director of the Italian Society of Community Psychology. Contributions to the debate by ENCP members: Donata Francescato (Rome) Jarg Bergold (Berlin) Jim Orford (Birmingham) Alipio Sanchez (Barcellona) Wolfgang Stark (Essen) Jose Ornelas (Lisbon) Arvid Skutle, Karin Berentzen & Erik Iverson (Bergen) Steve McKenna (Stirling)PPR: ASYLUM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. 14 JULY 2001 Manchester Liberation Theatre Workshop Liberation Theatre is a way of exploring issues relevant to marginalised and oppressed people. It is also a way to enable voices, of the marginalised and oppressed, to be heard that can feed into processes of change.
First National Conference of Survivor Workers Uk 28th February 2001. Manchester. "Survivor Workers Employed by Health Trusts and Partnerships" Invited discussant, with Jim Kelly (USA) at the Symposium entitled International Approaches to Community Psychology during The British Psychological Society's Centenary Annual Conference in Glasgow. Contributors included; Julian Rappaport (USA), Jim Orford (England), Heather Hamerton (New Zealand), Carolyn Kagan, David Fryer (Scotland).
Research and Consultative Work
McKenna, S and Fryer, D. (2001) Additional day service provision for people with problems associated with alcohol and homelessness: a feasibility study for Perth and Kinross Council (This unpublished report is the result of research carried out for Perth & Kinross Council in 2001)McKenna, S., Stockton, E. and Fryer D. (2001) Health inequalities, stressors, competences and resources in relation to young people in rural Perth and Kinross: A community psychological perspective on relevance of inequality to the well-being of 12 to 25 year-olds in Perth & Kinross. (This unpublished Report is the result of research carried out for Perth & Kinross Health For All in 2001)
McKenna, S., Pratt R. and Fryer D. (2000) Cope Consultation Exercise: A Report. (This unpublished Report is the result of a consultation exercise carried out for the Caring Over People's Emotions Project (COPE) in Drumchapel, Glasgow in 2000)
RUTHERGLEN & CAMBUSLANG DRUG FORUM Peer awareness project. Development work aimed at enabling innovative methods of peer awareness raising into the issues surrounding drug misuse.
YOUNG PEOPLE & MENTAL HEALTH Working collaboratively with a group of young people in South Lanarkshire to develop a video that exploresd issues of mental health from the perspective of young people. The video was previewed during BRINGING TOGETHER THEORY & PRACTICE. March 2002.
SOUTH LANARKSHIRE COUNCIL, YOUTH LEARNING SERVICES Developing and implementing a Staff Development Programme based on Supported Reflexivity and Integrated Practice based Staff development across the service.
YOUTH PARTICIPATION PROJECT & RESPONSE FUND Using participative methods a keynote presentation was developed with young people involved in the Youth Participation Project in Cambuslang, South Lanarkshire. The presentation was performed at the opening of the Cambuslang Community Conference on Social Inclusion in April 2000
CAMBUSLANG COMMUNITY RESOURCE UNIT Working collaboratively with young people in a community of high relative deprivation to explore the processes of change within their community. Using a wide range of expressive and theatre arts facilitating the creation of a production staged within the community in June 2000. The project was funded by Social Inclusion Partnership funding.
CAMBUSLANG HEALTH GROUP SEMINAR Young People and Mental Health: Whose problem is it anyway? Seminar on Mental Health, Poverty and Young People given to the Cambuslang Health Group, August 2000. This seminar can be accessed here CAMBUSLANG HEALTH GROUP SEMINAR
CAMBUSLANG AND RUTHERGLEN DRUGS FORUM "We Just Can't Say No" the development of a dramatic piece based on the highly participative development of an opportunity for Young People in Cambuslang and Rutherglen to inform adult members of the local community as well as strategic partners and policy planners at local and national levels of the expert views of young people on the issues surrounding drugs, drug misuse and both formal and informal drug education. This innovative project is pivotal to the emergence of "Liberation Theatre" as a discursive and a reciprocally consultative model for the inclusion of, in this instance, young people as both active citizens as well as key participants in the process of change in excluded communities.
CHANGE THEATRE. Consultant to the Youth Participation Project who are one of the key partners in the Change Theatre Project in Cambuslang.
Teaching Involvement
46AS: Community Psychology 200146AR: The Emotions and Related Phenomena
4611: Introductory Psychology (First Semester)
4612: Introductory Psychology (Second Semester)
1999/2000 & 2000/2001 MSc Psychology and Health (Lectures: Community Psychological Approaches to Mental Health; David Fryer & Steve McKenna. )
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