Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Perspectives and Applications presents the most recent literature, empirical work, issues, and events in the field and the relevant policy debates surrounding them.

The book maintains the basic architecture of the previous edition–integrating theory, research, and practice across the diverse subject matter of community mental health and community psychology–but reduces jargon and improves clarity. Applying an ecological perspective, it places problems in their current and historical contexts and employs a stress, coping, and social-support model as a key integrative device to analyze community mental health practice, prevention, self-help, and social action.

Principles of Community Perspectives and Applications, 3/e , is ideal for upper level undergraduate and graduate courses in community psychology, social work, and mental health.

Features of the Third Edition

· PRESENTS NEW INFORMATION

·behavior-environment congruence

·social and physical environmental influences on behavior and well-being

·the use of law to reduce stigma

·organizational change, development, and learning

·problems in planned change on a statewide level

·political and legal events since desegregation in public schools

·future problems surrounding race in public schools

·making community psychology more interdisciplinary

·recognizing developments in community psychology outside the United States

· OFFERS NEW RESEARCH

·homelessness

·adaptation, crisis, coping, and social support

· UPDATES AND EXPANDS TREATMENTS

·fundamental principles and values of community psychology

·population parameters

·the history of community psychology

·HIV/AIDS, Project Head Start, and preventing child maltreatment

·self-help/mutual assistance groups

·desegregation of the public schools as a societal-level intervention

·community development

·science, ethics, and the future of community psychology