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Handbook of Community Psychology

Handbook of Community Psychology


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This comprehensive handbook brings together 106 different contributors. The 38 interrelated yet independent chapters discuss key areas including conceptual frameworks; empirically grounded constructs; intervention strategies and tactics; social systems; designs, assessment, and analysis; cross-cutting professoipma; ossies; and contemporary interesections with related fields such as violence prevention and HIV/AIDS.

Table of Contents:
I. Concepts, Frameworks, Stores, and Maps.- 1. Prevention in Mental Health and Social Intervention: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Evolution of the Science and Practice of Prevention.- 2. Empowerment Theory: Psychological, Organizational, and Community Levels of Analysis.- 3. Individualism, Collectivism, and Community Psychology.- 4. Community Psychology and Routes to Psychological Wellness.- 5. Toward an Integration of Behaviorism and Community Psychology: Dogs Bark at Those They Do Not Recognize.- 6. Cognition in Social Context: Contributions to Community Psychology.- 7. Understanding and Changing Social Systems: An Ecological View.- II. People in Context: Empirically Grounded Constructs.- 8. Psychological Dysfunction and Well-Being: Public Health and Social Indicator Approaches.- 9. Stress: Theory, Research, and Action.- 10. Social Support Research in Community Psychology.- 11. Citizen Participation and Community Organizations.- 12. Power and Participation in the Workplace: Implications for Empowerment Theory, Research, and Practice.- III. Intervention Strategies and Tactics.- 13. Contextual Influences in Mental Health Consultation: Toward an Ecological Perspective on Radiating Change.- 14. Community and Neighborhood Organization.- 15. The Creation of Alternative Settings.- 16. Action-Oriented Mass Communication.- 17. Social Policy and Community Psychology.- 18. Dissemination of Innovation as Social Change.- IV. Social Systems.- 19. Prospects for a Viable Community Mental Health System: Reconciling Ideology, Professional Traditions, and Political Reality.- 20. Community-Based Health Interventions.- 21. Religion in American Life: A Community Psychology Perspective.- 22. Community Change, Community Stasis, and the Law.- 23. Helping Troubled Children and Families: A Paradigm of Public Responsibility.- 24. The School Reform Movement: Opportunities for Community Psychology.- 25. Self-Help Groups.- 26. Contributions from Organizational Psychology.- V. Design, Assessment, and Analytic Methods.- 27. Assessing Ecological Constructs and Community Context.- 28. Cross-Level Research without Cross-Ups in Community Psychology.- 29. Statistical Models for Change.- 30. Thinking through Others: Qualitative Research and Community Psychology.- VI. Cross-Cutting Perspectives and Professional Issues.- 31. Practitioners Perspectives.- 32. Community Psychology in International Perspective.- 33. Psychology in the International Community: Perspectives on Peace and Development.- 34. Community Psychology and Ethnic Minority Populations.- 35. Women’s Empowerment: A Review of Community Psychology’s First Twenty-Five Years.- 36. A Perspective on Ethical Issues in Community Psychology.- 37. Barometers of Community Change: Personal Reflections.- VII. Contemporary Intersections with Community Psychology.- 38. Contemporary Intersections.

Review :
"The book will be a useful reference for researchers working in the field of community psychology, and especially for those who need ready and convenient access to a state-of-the-art overview of community psychology research for grant applications and their own scholarly writing." (Psychiatric Services, 52:11(2001) "In short, this Handbook of Community Psychology is an exceptionally useful tool for mental health professionals, and especially for those involved in research or teaching. It is a handbook in the original sense of the word. That is, it is a book that many readers will want to keep close at hand." (Psychiatric Services, 52:11(2001)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780306461606
  • Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 1011
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0306461609
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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