Book Description
Updated and expanded in this third edition, Principles of Community Psychology: 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 Psychology: 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 BLPRESENTS NEW INFORMATION ON: BLbehavior-environment congruence BLsocial and physical environmental influences on behavior and well-being BLthe use of law to reduce stigma BLorganizational change, development, and learning BLproblems in planned change on a statewide level BLpolitical and legal events since desegregation in public schools BLfuture problems surrounding race in public schools BLmaking community psychology more interdisciplinary BLrecognizing developments in community psychology outside the United States BLOFFERS NEW RESEARCH ON: BLhomelessness BLadaptation, crisis, coping, and social support BLUPDATES AND EXPANDS TREATMENTS OF: BLfundamental principles and values of community psychology BLpopulation parameters BLthe history of community psychology BLHIV/AIDS, Project Head Start, and preventing child maltreatment BLself-help/mutual assistance groups BLdesegregation of the public schools as a societal-level intervention BLcommunity development BLscience, ethics, and the future of community psychology

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