A Quarter Century of Community Psychology Readings from the American Journal of Community Psychology

Başlık:

ISBN:

9781441986467

Edition:

1st ed. 2002.

Yayın Bilgileri:

New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002.

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

XXI, 583 p. online resource.

Contents:

I. Capstone Essays -- Looking Backward and Moving Forward: Reflections on a Quarter Century of Community Psychology -- Facilitating Change: Where and How Should Community Psychology Intervene? -- The Ecological Paradigm: Persons in Settings -- Diversity in Community Psychology -- II . The Origin -- Psychology and the Community -- III. The 1970s -- Preentry Issues in Consultation -- Social Stress and Community Psychology -- IV. The 1980s -- In Praise of Paradox: A Social Policy of Empowerment over Prevention -- Primary Prevention During School Transitions: Social Support and Environmental Structure -- The Fidelity-Adaptation Debate: Implications for the Implementation of Public Sector Social Programs -- Back to the Future, Community Psychology: Unfolding a Theory of Social Intervention -- Community Settings as Buffers of Life Stress? Highly Supportive Churches, Mutual Help Groups, and Senior Centers -- The Impact of AIDS on a Gay Community: Changes in Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Mental Health -- V. The 1990s -- Sense of Community in the Urban Environment: A Catalyst for Participation and Community Development -- The Adaptation of Black Graduate Students: A Social Network Approach -- Expectations and High School Change: Teacher-Researcher Collaboration to Prevent School Failure -- Homelessness: What Is a Psychologist to Do? -- The Social Policy Context of Child Care: Effects on Quality -- What's Wrong with Empowerment -- The Children of Divorce Parenting Intervention: Outcome Evaluation of an Empirically Based Program -- The Enhancement of Psychological Wellness: Challenges and Opportunities -- Impact of the JOBS Intervention on Unemployed Workers Varying in Risk for Depression -- A Future for Community Psychology: The Contexts of Diversity and the Diversity of Contexts -- Family, Peer, and Neighborhood Influences on Academic Achievement among African-American Adolescents: One-Year Prospective Effects -- Appendices -- A. Reprinted Articles Categorized by Community Psychology Topics, Settings, and Constructs -- B. The Society for Community Research and Action Award for Distinguished Contribution to Theory and Research in Community Psychology -- C. The Society for Community Research and Action Award for Distinguished Practice in Community Psychology -- About the Editors.

Abstract:

Looking back over the past quarter century or so, it becomes apparent that Community Psychology has developed a rich tradition of theory, empirical research, action, and innovative methods. Within the field of psychology, community psychology challenges traditional ways of thinking. It considers not only the person but also whole ecological systems, recognizing that the linkages between persons and systems may be as important as either factor alone. It examines both top-down and bottom-up change; it recognizes the need for cultural diversity; and it recognizes the need for both research and praxis-actually, their interaction, which is termed "action research" or "action science. " Many of the important writings have been published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJ CP). l As such, the intellectual history of the field is embedded in this journal. In 1996, The Publications Committee of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association), in cooperation with Plenum Publishing Corporation, published a call for an editor or editorial team to "develop a volume which will use the most impactful papers from the [AJCP] to portray the rich tradition of . . . action research . . . " (Call for Nominations, 1996, p. 17). The editors of the volume you are holding answered that call and were subsequently asked to bring the project to fruition.

Subject Term:

Community psychology.

Public health.

Clinical health psychology.

Clinical psychology.

Health Psychology.

Added Author:

Revenson, Tracey A.

D'Augelli, Anthony R.

French, Sabine E.

Hughes, Diane.

Livert, David E.