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    Are our competencies revealing our weaknesses? A critique of community psychology practice competencies

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    Authors
    Dzidic, Peta
    Breen, Lauren
    Bishop, Brian
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Dzidic, Peta and Breen, Lauren J. and Bishop, Brian J. 2013. Are our competencies revealing our weaknesses? A critique of community psychology practice competencies. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice. 4 (4): pp. 1-10.
    Source Title
    Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice
    Additional URLs
    http://www.gjcpp.org/pdfs/2013-003CCSI-20131018.pdf
    ISSN
    2163-8667
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    Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34127
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In this paper we argue that the focus on the development and application of practice competencies for community psychology runs the risk of being a distraction from good practice. We outline three areas that demonstrate the inherent flaws in focusing on traditional notions of competencies for community psychology – the limitations of competencies themselves, the schism between competencies and ethics, and the disconnect between competencies and applied practice. In opposition to traditional notions of competencies underpinned by positivist and mechanist notions, we propose that the distinction between virtue and procedural ethics provides a model for comparing and contrasting virtue and procedural competencies. Virtue competencies provide an orientation and value-base that may be applied to any context in which community psychologists work; in this way, competencies may be positioned as tools for understanding, rather than as understandings.

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