Handbook of community psychology /

This comprehensive handbook, the first in its field, brings together 106 different contributors. The 38 interrelated but at the same time independent chapters discuss key areas including conceptual frameworks; empirically grounded constructs; intervention strategies and tactics; social systems; desi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rappaport, Julian, Seidman, Edward
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, [2000]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prevention in mental health and social intervention : conceptual and methodological issues in the evolution of the science and practice of prevention
  • Empowerment theory : psychological, organizational, and community levels of analysis
  • Individualism, collectivism, and community psychology
  • Community psychology and routes to psychological wellness
  • Toward an integration of behaviorism and community psychology : dogs bark at those they do not recognize
  • Cognition in social context : contributions to community psychology
  • Understanding and changing social systems : an ecological view
  • Psychological dysfunction and well-being : public health and social indicator approaches
  • Stress : theory, research, and action
  • Social support research in community psychology
  • Citizen participation and community organizations
  • Power and participation in the workplace : implications for empowerment theory, research, and practice
  • Contextual influences in mental health consultation : toward an ecological perspective on radiating change
  • Community and neighborhood organization
  • The creation of alternative settings
  • Action-oriented mass communication
  • Social policy and community psychology
  • Dissemination of innovation as social change
  • Prospects for a viable community mental health system : reconciling ideology, professional traditions, and political reality
  • Community-based health interventions
  • Religion in American life : a community psychology perspective
  • Community change, community stasis, and the law
  • Helping troubled children and families : a paradigm of public responsibility
  • The school reform movement : opportunities for community psychology
  • Self-help groups
  • Contributions from organizational psychology
  • Assessing ecological constructs and community context
  • Cross-level research without cross-ups in community psychology
  • Statistical models for change
  • Thinking through others : qualitative research and community psychology
  • Practitioners' perspectives
  • Community psychology in international perspective
  • Psychology in the international community : perspectives on peace and development
  • Community psychology and ethnic minority populations
  • Women's empowerment : a review of community psychology's first twenty-five years
  • A perspective on ethical issues in community psychology
  • Barometers of community change : personal reflections
  • Contemporary intersections.