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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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.