POWER-MAPPING .1. BACKGROUND AND BASIC METHODOLOGY

Clinical and community psychology have yet to work out the full implic ations of taking seriously the structuring by power of the individual' s social environment. Even the factor of social class has received lit tle more than superficial attention. Some suggestions are offered as t o why this might be so, and a theoretical framework: for understanding psychological distress strictly as the result of the operation of soc ial power is developed. A simple technique of 'mapping' power is outli ned as a means for furthering such an understanding. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.