The power to promote wellness, resist oppression, and foster liberation is grounded in psychological and political dynamics. Hitherto, these two sources of power have been treated in isolation, both for descriptive and prescriptive purposes. As a result, we lack an integrative theory that explains the role of power in promoting human welfare and preventing suffering, and we lack a framework for...

The concept of historical trauma (HT) was developed to explain clinical distress among descendants of Jewish Holocaust survivors and has since been ascribed new meanings to account for suffering in diverse contexts. In American Indian (AI) communities, the concept of AI HT has been tailored and promoted as an expanded notion of trauma that combines psychological injury with historical oppressio...

For at least three decades, disability rights activists have challenged exclusionary and stigmatizing social processes that constrain people with disabilities, an effort highlighted by the 1990 enactment Of the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, all environmental barriers to participation by people with disabilities may not be eliminated by a policy strategy that focuses on discriminatio...

Theories of collective intentionality and theories relational autonomy share a common interest in analyzing the social dynamics agency. However, whereas conceive groups primarily as intentional voluntarily willed, claim that autonomous agency is both scaffolded constrained by forces structures, including constraints imposed nonvoluntary group membership. The question raised this difference view...

This article aims to describe the concept of oppression, its facets, oppression theory and psychological characteristics oppressed for understanding this phenomenon. Nurses are major human capital in healthcare organizations. They continuously struggling professional dignity honor they actually deserve despite spending sleepless nights curing caring sick one. Nursing profession face discriminat...