Handbook of Community Psychology (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Rappaport, Julian; Seidman, Edward

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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; designs, assessment, and analysis; cross-cutting professional issues; and contemporary intersections with related fields such as violence prevention and HIV/AIDS.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 1011
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461541936
• Artikelnr.: 44176581

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"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)