Principles of Community Psychology : Perspectives and Applications

Murray Levine

ISBN 10: 0195144171 / ISBN 13: 9780195144178

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2004

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is a revision of a successful community psychology text. It uses an ecological perspective to integrate theory, research and practice across the diverse subject matter of community mental health and community psychology. The authors have retained the basic architecture of the book, but the thoery chapters have been rewritten to reduce jargon and other chapters have been changed to improve clarity. All examples and issues in the book have been revised tobring them up to date.

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• Titolo: Principles of Community Psychology : Perspectives and Applications
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195144171
• ISBN 13: 9780195144178
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Edizione: terza edizione
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 240 L x 161 A x 35 P (millimetri) 240 millimetri di larghezza per 161 millimetri di altezza per 35 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 1001 grammi

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Riassunto

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



·PRESENTS NEW INFORMATION ON:


·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 ON:


·homelessness


·adaptation, crisis, coping, and social support



·UPDATES AND EXPANDS TREATMENTS OF:


·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

Informazioni sugli autori

Murray Levine is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

Douglas D. Perkins is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University.

David V. Perkins is Professor of Psychology at Ball State University.


Murray Levine is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.

Douglas D. Perkins is Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University.

David V. Perkins is Professor of Psychology at Ball State University.