What is Critical psychology?

Critical psychology is a perspective on psychology that draws extensively on critical theory. Critical psychology challenges mainstream psychology and attempts to apply psychological understandings in different ways, often looking towards social change as a means of preventing and treating psychopathology.

Critical psychologists believe conventional psychology fails to consider how power differences between social classes and groups can impact an individual's or a group's mental and physical well-being. Conventional psychology does this, in part, by explaining behavior at the individual level.