Principles of Community Psychology: Perspectives and Applications

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