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  • Essay / Community Psychology Essay - 804

    Many families had to leave their traditional family to become a single-parent family because their loved one died during the war. I was also at the time when women were fighting for their rights. Added to this was the large movement of African Americans from the South to the North to work in the factories, as many men were killed in the war and they needed personnel to replace the white workers. People had to adapt to work environments due to women working due to the lack of men who did not return from the war. And those who returned from the war wanted their jobs back and for there to be women working in their workplace. Women were so used to making money in the factory now, instead of making $15 a week as a maid and maid, compared to $40 a week working in the factory. The women had to leave the factories, but they did not leave happy and so they started a movement for women's rights. After the war, soldiers returned home with mental disorders due to the trauma of the war itself, they were mistreated and placed in a mental institution and labeled. as being crazy. And at the same time that African Americans were being lynched and killed, their only therapy was the local church pastor. They didn't have a real psychologist at that time, the counselors that the church and the