Vol. 12 No. 1/2 (2026): Community Psychology in Global Perspective

This issue of Community Psychology in Global Perspective brings together six research articles and one literature review that share a concern for how communities produce knowledge, care and resistance under conditions of structural inequality.

Three contributions concern gender and women's agency.
Passos Pereira Campos and colleagues examine the community solutions that Black, rural and quilombola Brazilian women develop in response to the climate crisis, reading their traditional knowledge through a decolonial and intersectional lens.
Dornelas and colleagues report on reflective groups for women who have experienced domestic violence in Brazil, discussing the group as a psychosocial device for the reconstruction of meaning.
Pardo Parra and Bonilla Montenegro analyse the experiences of ten women leaders in Bogotá, showing how horizontal, care-based leadership contributes to peacebuilding in post-conflict Colombia.

Two articles address deprivation and social disconnection.
Matsikure Cheure and colleagues explore the psychosocial dimensions of deprivation and community resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sakubva, Zimbabwe.
Panagiotopoulos and colleagues present a pilot feasibility trial of Groups 4 Health for Refugees, a social identity intervention addressing loneliness among forced migrants in Greece.

A further contribution moves from intervention to its evaluation. Parkden and colleagues evaluate the anti-racism training of a community organisation in Cornwall and reflect on the conditions that make participatory action research possible for clinical psychologists.

The issue closes with Bravo Bravo's review, which proposes the notion of relational community and argues, drawing on Mapuche ontology, for the inclusion of non-human agents in our understanding of community.

Across these settings, the studies show community psychology working with communities rather than on them.