A Quarter Century of Community Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Capstone Essays

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Looking Backward and Moving Forward: Reflections on a Quarter Century of Community Psychology

      • Tracey A. Revenson, Edward Seidman

      Pages 3-31

   3. Facilitating Change: Where and How Should Community Psychology Intervene?

      • Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Marybeth Shinn

      Pages 33-49

   4. The Ecological Paradigm: Persons in Settings

      • David Livert, Diane L. Hughes

      Pages 51-63

   5. Diversity in Community Psychology

      • Sabine E. French, Anthony R. D’Augelli

      Pages 65-77

3. The Origin

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Psychology and the Community

      • Chester C. Bennett, Luleen Anderson, Saul Cooper, Leonard Hassol, Donald C. Klein, Gershen Rosenblum

      Pages 81-86

4. The 1970s

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Preentry Issues in Consultation

      • Cary Cherniss

      Pages 89-101

   3. Social Stress and Community Psychology

      • Barbara Snell Dohrenwend

      Pages 103-117

5. The 1980s

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. In Praise of Paradox: A Social Policy of Empowerment over Prevention

      • Julian Rappaport

      Pages 121-145

   3. Primary Prevention During School Transitions: Social Support and Environmental Structure

      • Robert D. Felner, Melanie Ginter, Judith Primavera

      Pages 147-161

   4. The Fidelity-Adaptation Debate: Implications for the Implementation of Public Sector Social Programs

      • Craig H. Blakely, Jeffrey P. Mayer, Rand G. Gottschalk, Neal Schmitt, William S. Davidson, David B. Roitman et al.

      Pages 163-179

   5. Back to the Future, Community Psychology: Unfolding a Theory of Social Intervention

      • Edward Seidman

      Pages 181-203

   6. Community Settings as Buffers of Life Stress? Highly Supportive Churches, Mutual Help Groups, and Senior Centers

      • Kenneth I. Maton

      Pages 205-235

   7. The Impact of AIDS on a Gay Community: Changes in Sexual Behavior, Substance Use, and Mental Health

      • John L. Martin, Laura Dean, Marc Garcia, William Hall

      Pages 237-262

6. The 1990s

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. Sense of Community in the Urban Environment: A Catalyst for Participation and Community Development

      • David M. Chavis, Abraham Wandersman

      Pages 265-292

Looking back over the past quarter century or so, it becomes apparent that Community Psychology has developed a rich tradition of theory, empirical research, action, and innovative methods. Within the field of psychology, community psychology challenges traditional ways of thinking. It considers not only the person but also whole ecological systems, recognizing that the linkages between persons and systems may be as important as either factor alone. It examines both top-down and bottom-up change; it recognizes the need for cultural diversity; and it recognizes the need for both research and praxis-actually, their interaction, which is termed "action research" or "action science. " Many of the important writings have been published in the American Journal of Community Psychology (AJ CP). l As such, the intellectual history of the field is embedded in this journal. In 1996, The Publications Committee of the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, Division 27 of the American Psychological Association), in cooperation with Plenum Publishing Corporation, published a call for an editor or editorial team to "develop a volume which will use the most impactful papers from the [AJCP] to portray the rich tradition of . . . action research . . . " (Call for Nominations, 1996, p. 17). The editors of the volume you are holding answered that call and were subsequently asked to bring the project to fruition.

• Biographie
• Community Psychology
• Enhancement
• Evaluation
• intervention
• psychology

"Considering the amount of information in psychology and in the subfields, this book is an excellent way of bringing together individuals, both senior and junior, within community psychology through a single effort."
(Nicholas Greco IV, MS (Abbott Laboratories)

• The Graduate Center of the City, University of New York, New York, USA

  Tracey A. Revenson, David Livert

• Pennsylvania State University, USA

  Anthony R. D’Augelli

• University of California, Riverside, USA

  Sabine E. French

• New York University, New York, USA

  Diane L. Hughes, Edward Seidman, Marybeth Shinn, Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Policies and ethics