Handbook of Community Psychology

Handbook of Community Psychology edited by Julian Rappaport, Edward Seidman.

As a field progresses, people write about their own work in journals, chapters, and books; but periodically the work needs to be collected and organized. It needs to be brought together in a format that can both introduce new members to the field and reacquaint continuing members with the work of th...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rappaport, Julian (Editor), Seidman, Edward (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Personality.
Social psychology.
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Epidemiology.
Clinical psychology.
Public health.
Sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
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.

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