Thursday, June 15, 2017

A person or expert in your field that I admire

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I would like to talk about Martín Baró, he was born in November 7 of 1942 in Valladolid, Spain and he died in November 16th of 1989 in San Salvador, where he was murdered by the Salvadoran army. He was a scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest.
He said that psychology should be developed to address the historical context, the social conditions and aspirations of the people. For Martín Baró, the solution to the mental health problems in societies characterized by oppression, is the transformation of society to transcend the historical reality of oppression. Psychologists cannot ignore the influence that difficult contexts have on the mental health. If they do, then they become in accomplices to the social injustices that may have caused these mental health problems. His work inspired the development of liberation psychology in Latin America and community psychology throughout the world
I like Martín Baró because he did a big contribution to social psychology by understanding the subject in his historical context.

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